Just 2 quick stories to (hopefully) make you smile!
I have only one German student, and this week, he is our "hand monitor," meaning he is in charge of making sure the students wash their hands before going to lunch and at other times during the day.
Yesterday, a lot of the students were rushing through washing their hands, and not doing as good of a job as he thought they should - he takes his job very seriously! He actually ran after a couple of them to make them come back and do a better job! Towards the end of the line, when I could tell he was being very harsh on them for not washing their hands properly, I almost said "looks like we've got a hands-Nazi here!" Fortunately, I thought before I spoke. Not only is he German (and I've learned that Germans are still ashamed of their history), but none of the other students would have understood at all! No Seinfeld here to teach about soup-Nazis, either!
We've been studying the prefix "omni" in Bible - omnipresent, omniscient, etc.
Today, one of my students made a very sweet acrostic with my name (Miss Carroll), putting a nice adjective for every letter. For the "o" in Carroll, she wrote "omnigood"!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Urglish
I bought a new flashlight the other weekend, it's one that doesn't need batteries - you just pump the handle and it charges up. The shop keeper asked if I wanted the box for it - I didn't really think I needed it, but I said sure anyway. I'm so glad I did!
This is what's written on the side of the box, exactly as it appears: (fyi for you non-British speakers - "torch" = "flashlight")
Doesn't that make you smile?!
This is what's written on the side of the box, exactly as it appears: (fyi for you non-British speakers - "torch" = "flashlight")
Product Characteristics:
1) This product is a new science and technology product and made with high and new science and technology. It can illuminate only placing it in rhythm.
2) No need any power, no environmental pollution. Low noise and health, Comparing with common torch.it can be several times on lift.
3) Con stantly using this health torch, it can benefit to your palm, arm and shoulder stretching and blood circulation, so as to let your hands relax and brain clever,hand and brain coor dinate and promote your brain memory and health composition.
Doesn't that make you smile?!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Miscellaneous
Here are just some miscellaneous pictures I haven't put up that you might like...
This butterfly was at the bottom of the chairlift in Murree. I got several really good pictures of it - isn't it beautiful?!
Cows.
One foggy walk in Murree.
My first few nights here, I was painfully bored, as everyone thought I needed time to "settle in." I hadn't brought any cards with me, because I thought maybe they'd be seen as sinful or something. Little did I know how much I enjoy playing solitaire. So I spent my first 2 nights here creating my own deck of playing cards - before I went to the grocery store and saw that they have piles of cards!
In Murree, you can rent a horse to ride up and down the road. The horses are usually gorgeous like this one, but you don't really ride them anywhere except on the road with all the cars and people. Often, you'll see them sickenly emaciated - you could hang a rope on their hip bones and wash clothes on their ribs. Yet people still ride them or pull carts with them. No one knows what kind of horses they are, but I call them Albinos.
In Lahore, people used donkeys to pull carts and do all that work, but I haven't seen many up here.
Okay - just some odds and ends for you to look at!
This butterfly was at the bottom of the chairlift in Murree. I got several really good pictures of it - isn't it beautiful?!
Cows.
One foggy walk in Murree.
My first few nights here, I was painfully bored, as everyone thought I needed time to "settle in." I hadn't brought any cards with me, because I thought maybe they'd be seen as sinful or something. Little did I know how much I enjoy playing solitaire. So I spent my first 2 nights here creating my own deck of playing cards - before I went to the grocery store and saw that they have piles of cards!
In Murree, you can rent a horse to ride up and down the road. The horses are usually gorgeous like this one, but you don't really ride them anywhere except on the road with all the cars and people. Often, you'll see them sickenly emaciated - you could hang a rope on their hip bones and wash clothes on their ribs. Yet people still ride them or pull carts with them. No one knows what kind of horses they are, but I call them Albinos.
In Lahore, people used donkeys to pull carts and do all that work, but I haven't seen many up here.
Okay - just some odds and ends for you to look at!
Weekend in Lahore
I went to a Pakistan Orientation in Lahore this past weekend. It was a great time of fellowship and learning more about the country's history, politics, religion, culture, etc, etc...
The place where we stayed had a beautiful garden, and there was lots of new wildlife around, including a pair of nesting falcons! I took more pictures of animals than anything else, so here they are:
This is some African bird which people were calling something like a "Hoosa." A whatsa? I don't know.
To make me feel as if I were camping in Yosemite, there were plenty of wild chipmunks running all over the campus.
I'd been trying to get a picture of this falcon all morning, and had just about given up, when I wandered on to the basketball courts and he was just sitting right there!
The next day, this one was sitting up on the phone wire, squaking at the other, who was gathering twigs and such to build a nest in a tree near by.
On the bus ride home, we stopped at this truck stop, which had a Pakistani restaurant, a KFC, and... a Subway! You can barely make out their sign on the far right of this picture. I was so excited to go in and be able to say "a 6 inch on Italian, please." Even if I did have to repeat it a few times...
The place where we stayed had a beautiful garden, and there was lots of new wildlife around, including a pair of nesting falcons! I took more pictures of animals than anything else, so here they are:
This is some African bird which people were calling something like a "Hoosa." A whatsa? I don't know.
To make me feel as if I were camping in Yosemite, there were plenty of wild chipmunks running all over the campus.
I'd been trying to get a picture of this falcon all morning, and had just about given up, when I wandered on to the basketball courts and he was just sitting right there!
The next day, this one was sitting up on the phone wire, squaking at the other, who was gathering twigs and such to build a nest in a tree near by.
On the bus ride home, we stopped at this truck stop, which had a Pakistani restaurant, a KFC, and... a Subway! You can barely make out their sign on the far right of this picture. I was so excited to go in and be able to say "a 6 inch on Italian, please." Even if I did have to repeat it a few times...
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