February 2012
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formspring.me
Ask me anything, tell me anything http://www.formspring.me/hellojsmith
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I keep
ordering things online and sending them home. When I finally get back there it’s going to be like Christmas all over again!
booked my ticket back to LA
“When I told them that I was traveling back to America by myself, they seemed offended and then secretly envious, as if traveling alone were a dangerous, uncouth activity done only by rebellious American youths. But whenever I thought of what I was going back to in America, I found myself curiously detached from my own memories”
-Jaed Coffin
A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
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So the only school bus on island is broken
Thankfully people have volunteered to give rides back and forth between villages. Today Erin and I were driven home by the police officer. Hopefully the bus will be fixed soon, but things never happen fast around here.
January 2012
12 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
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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...