January 2012
11 posts
My heart hurts
: (
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 2011
10 posts
HOME!
there’s nowhere else I’d rather be for the Holidays : )
Photo a day
I decided to start this again. Withe the spotty internet connection I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep it up, but I’ll try!
http://jsmithphotoaday.tumblr.com/
November 2011
6 posts
October 2011
5 posts
This week in my reading class
students are working in pairs or groups of threes to write reader’s theatre scripts.
They’ve been coming up with some pretty crazy ideas, but are having a lot of fun. One group is a doctor and patient, and I think there may be a mock surgery involved. Another group of three is working on a script with a zombie as one of the characters.
Next week they’re going to get to perform...
I miss watching the leaves change color
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September 2011
10 posts
jnacolesmith@gmail.com
I can’t use facebook, but e-mails are always fun : )
Home. What is it?
floodwaters:
when will I be there? Am I there now?
My laptop is on the fritz!
and facebook won’t load at school anymore : (
technology hates me
so we had a tsunami drill today
the whole school ran as fast as they could and piled into one bus. Then we all drove up the mountain, got out, and ran farther up. All of this happened in less than 5 minutes. Those kids don’t play around with tsunami drills.
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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via quinnbo)
Mel was supposed to write about his dream...
This is what I got:
My dream vacation is a monster one day
I see the monster back
of my house the monster color
is white hair, black shirt, and
he say I’m going to eat you
Melchior because you
are same color you and me
if you sleep at the night
I’m gonna eat you boy
me: I gonna tell you to my mom
I don’t care about your mom say
come back to the house
why happened in the
back of my house. I...
August 2011
10 posts
Help?
I wish there was some way to have this year of teaching in American Samoa count toward my KTIP requirements back home. I should have looked into my options before heading out here, because I am definitely putting in the work. Three weeks into the school year I am acting co-chair of the English department, have been placed on the reading and math assessment and data collection committee for all...
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I miss Nick Flood and Jessica Smith
I hope you got my letter!