jo and i are creating an art book together via scavenger hunt lists.
actually, it's all about our different perceptions of reality and how we as individuals react to the same and different stimuli. but on the surface it's going to be a book full of photographs, drawings, poetry, and paintings that are reactions to a list of words. each of us made up lists, and traded. but eventually we are going to trade back, so that we've each reacted to everything in some way.
it's going to be fascinating.

my list, written by jolene is:
death                  election day       cloud
holding hands      playing              paper
lost                     growing             photograph
family                 argument           lost object
building               epiphany
learning               confusion
color                   infidelity
lust                     beauty  
souls                  poverty
innocence           eye contact
searching            hope
seep                   money
fabric                  flower
plant met             red

confusion

epiphany

learning

argument

eyecontact

innocence

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In the e-book emerging technologies for learning,it says that "the web is no longer just a way to receive information-it is a medium for commenting, collaborating and creating". The web is changing because before you need to know HTML to create a website and now there are tools you can use without knowledge of programming codes. I am glad that these tools are develop because I dislike C++ when I had to take this class for my bachelor. C++ and other programming languages are very difficult for me to understand. The programming languages are complex and can be confusing.

What can the changes to the web do now? That is a good question. With Web 2.0 there are so much we can do now. If we have opinions, we can blog them. If we can not attend class, we can learn online or by video conference. If we need course outline or material, we can collaborate a wiki site. It's a whole new ball game of blogger,wikis,etc.

There are so much medium for commenting, collaborating and creating out there that we can expand different learning opportunities. What can we expect in the near future?

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Eye lash

Boo!!!

Does these pair of eyes scare yOu??  *heheh*

It was just last Tuesday where we had a drag queen coming into our class and taught us bits about stage make-ups. But, Then~~~ I saw a few pairs of pretty-pretty eye lashes on the table..

Out of Curiousity...

I just had to ask him about that!! During the class, he taught us how to draw wrinkles on young faces, how to do young face-make-ups and simple light make-ups.

At the end of the class...

He ask me if I want to put the eye lashes on. I straightaway nods silly-ly. *heh* He put on the eye-lashes glue (can't remember which brand he used dee *lips sealed*).. And yeah! This is the outcome?

p/s: Mind you, after the make-up class, I went to wait for bus to go home. Ya think how'd people stared at me. Even Ivan doesn't wanna stand closed to me. Wtf?!! -.-||

Good Experience though~ ;)

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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." 

–Thomas Carlyle

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(Homework for September 15, 2008)

I know I'm supposed to want to learn things about History or Maths or Science or Writing but I suffer from a lack of desire to be smart.  I guess that's not the truth but learning comes so hard to me that I can't say I want to learn any of those things.  How can I want to learn about them when I have to learn about them?  I don't think have and want can be the same thing.  I think it's more important to understand what's going on in the world today instead of what happened in the past.  I can't find anybody who says Algebra helped them at all so I think Maths should stop at cheque book learning.  I don't know what I'll ever do with science and so what if I don't know what kingdom some rodent belongs to?  I think writing is what I hate the most.  People don't care what I write and it's more important what I say so why not let me write how I talk?  It's unnatural to express my thoughts in some format some stranger has come up with.  I wrote this but it's not how I wrote it.  It's my thoughts in my Dad's format.  He corrected it while muttering Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca.  So I added that part and he'll probably give me an earful for it to.  My point is if I can say it what does it matter how I write it?  I'm not a journalist and I don't hold to any silly aspirations to be an author so let my words be enough without worrying about run on sentences or when a paragraph should end or start.  I don't think the question of what I want to learn is the important question.  The important question is what have I learnt and what do I still need to learn in order to survive tomorrow?

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What a find!  I saw this on iLibrarian. http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/

http://www.advantageedu.com/blog/2008/09/100-useful-free-web-tools-for-lifelong-learners/

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LingQ - The future of language learning

http://www.lingq.com/

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One day I found myself completely at odds with the way my career was going. It became clear to me that my students didn't really learn anything other than how to pass exams, if that was their goal. If not, 80% of them were happy to adopt a studious pose in class, which they immediately left behind at the door.

I tied myself into knots trying to make lessons that were more motivating. It was like hitting my head against a wall. Teachers that had a good rapport with students were generally not better at teaching than I was. They were much more willing to do what I sometimes call "hand-holding" in order smooth classes along, but with the same result: 20%... the driven students... would succeed under any circumstances.

In a classroom of 10 to 15 people, only 3 or 4 are ready to make the effort required to learn. The rest are satisfied to be passive learners at best. LingQ gives those 3 to 4 learners a chance to succeed at a much cheaper price (there is a free version and a very useful version starts at $10 US/month) and with a much more sensible methodology. I invite everyone to read this lens and find out more.

It is ok to feel like this LingQ is going to be about the same old stuff. For example:"This is a perfect method for learning languages!!". Or, "We have finally found the answer to all the laziness, boredom, and general blah that surrounds the learning of languages!" I assure you, LingQ does not offer paradise in 10 minutes. The first and most important thing you must understand, and I am a language teacher/administrator with 9 years' experience, is that language learning is not for those who aren't ready to dedicate time and effort to it.

The following is a more in depth description of one of my favourite web spaces. It is the best language learning website I have come across for its marriage of principles, methodology, and execution. It could be the next great Web 2.0 phenomena.

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On the face of it,LingQ, operated by Mark Kaufmann,is just a cluster of on-line audio-text libraries in 10 different languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, German, Russian, Chinese,and Japanese. These just happen to be the ten languages that the creative force behind LingQ, CEO Steve Kaufmann, speaks. When you look a little deeper you can see that after you choose one text, the audio can be downloaded to your MP3 player. Further along, you can see that there is a flashcard widget, the actual "LingQ" in LingQ, which gathers a database of all the words you chose to study from the text. Finally, you see that anyone can import texts with audio to the libraries.

When you start using LingQ you see it is made up of 5 main aspects.

1. LingQ-ing
The first one, and perhaps the one that stands out the most, is LingQ-ing itself. This is using flashcards to study problem words. After you choose a text, all you do is read, highlight problem words, click the "LingQ" widget, and you have a flashcard that contains the target word, the surrounding phrase, and a potential hint. The flashcard is networked with a series of dictionaries to easily retrieve definitions. The completed flashcards are stockpiled for further review according to a system similar to Leitner's.

2. Wordcount Measures Progress
The second aspect is the idea that the number of words that you know is the criteria for how well you know the language. There is a little button next to each text that lets your LingQ account know that you are "all done" with that text. LingQ counts all the individual words in that text (that you haven't LingQ-ed) and assumes that you know them. LingQ then ranks the remaining texts in the library according to how many "known" words they contain. Accumulating known words motivates LingQers when they are feeling bored with a text but they want to complete it for a given reason--- at low levels there is often limited amount of content that truly appeals to adults.

3. Repetition
The third aspect is the simple concept of repetition. Not only do you learn the problem words through repeated flashcard study, but the method emphasises repeated reading and especially listening of the same text. The idea is to repeat as much as you can to allow the flow of the language to become familiar. This is what I would call the grammar component of LingQ. Traditional grammar gives people problems because the appropriate forms are often based on patterns that stretch across many words, many sentences, or even paragraphs of text. The neat, phrase-level, explanations in traditional grammar books are usually full of exceptions. Accurate explanations are difficult for non-grammarians to understand. But repeated listening allows these stretched-out patterns to become accessible to anyone since they are embedded in the familiar context of stories, descriptions, or dialogs.

At lower levels, when you everything is quite new, you may listen to a thirty second dialog 40 times over the course of a couple of weeks. You can put it down and pick up where you left off in a week, Or you can just start new stuff. This brings me to the fourth aspect of LingQ.

4. Enjoyment
The fourth aspect is enjoyment. Learning languages should be a pleasure, otherwise you will never spend the amount of time required to truly master a language. The vast majority of your time you are reading and listening to enjoyable material. Speaking and writing formulaic phrases at a beginner stage is effortful, awkward and is usually not going to help you in a real situation. So is trying to understand decontextualised and sometimes quite contrived grammar rules. Large amounts of listening and reading will eventually get you to the point that you can somewhat spontaneously express yourself because you are actually moved by the topic or situation. It is possible to speak and write to tutors on LingQ but the discussions flow naturally and corrections are given via a text box so as not to interrupt the flow. Both of these activities lead back to the creation of LingQs.

5. Community
Finally, perhaps the most important aspect of LingQ is the community. Much of the content is contributed by the learners themselves, making LingQ a clearing house of ideas, information. attitudes, and accents at the grass roots level. Each account at LingQ can be tagged with a picture, a bio, blog links, and activity scores ("known" words etc). You can make 'LingQ friends' and see their profiles. There are lively discussions on the dozens of forums in 10 languages and counting. In the coming weeks, friends of different cultures will be able to tutor each other in a cash-structured language exchange format. Ultimately, the community is what will keep the learner coming back to the site and doing the work necessary to learn.

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Playing from the flipside on day 2 of this.  (interpret day 2 as what you will, It is day 2 of something)

I feel like lately life is a struggle between optimism and pessimism. Mostly because we’ve been conditioned to attribute our ‘good thoughts’ the the former and our ‘bad thoughts to the latter category. The fact that they are being divided up equally like this seems to me to mean that they are actually the same thing- just being pushed to one side or another. Life does that to us… rather- stuff- does that to us. We congratulate our selves for having more thoughts in our ‘optimistic’ category and reprimand ourselves for having more in our ‘pessimistic’ category. So the good keeps getting better, and the bad keeps getting worse.  So what happens when you are stuck in a ‘bad getting worse’ pattern? Not only do you punish yourself with more negative thoughts for thinking negatively in the first place, all the while trying to be like miss sunshine gumdrop over there, but you kind of begin to hate everything that doesn’t fit into this dark little world you’ve created for yourself, and you wonder whats wrong with you that you don’t even feel like you could be optimistic if you wanted to. Like you’ve got a defect. Your unhappy, shit sucks, getting worse, and you’re broken. Wow. What a way to be.

Ok, so this is the place ive been in lately. It fluxuates in intensity, but for the most part, its been at some variation of that. Yesterday I was feeling uncharacteristically optimistic (I need a new synonym, sorry), and today… im just not.

And I started getting mad at myself for writing about such happy oozing bullshit yesterday. I started getting embarrassed that I was even thinking so positively… I just cant see myself buying into that today. ‘take it as it comes? Ok… then what next? Do you have any fucking idea how much I have to do in the next year? In the next few years? Do you know how much pressure is on me right now? For gods sake, leave me alone and stop telling me to stop worrying”

So my natural response to that is ‘stop being so fucking negative Haeli, seriously, get back to where you were yesterday, it was better there’.  But of course I don’t want to because im stubborn, I don’t know how to because you cant force yourself to feel something and I really am overwhelmed and now conflicted too.  So here I am, worse than ever. 

But what I want to point out is that THIS situation is actually one of those puzzles. Don’t fight to get back into the mindset of ‘everythings ok, take it as it comes and work it out’ if your not there, your not there, and its probably for some reason or another. Just sit where you are, sit with your anger and frustration, don’t think about it if you don’t want to, but sit with it, get comfortable with it, stop fighting it and you will stop reinforcing it, it will at least stop compounding itself, and you have a manageable amount of negativity that will work out as you go through your day. Good things will happen and if your not too busy punishing your self for being unhappy (which is the equivalent of dwelling on being unhappy) than you will just kind of pull through it. I’ll call this ‘letting the puzzle work its self out”.

Trying to force yourself to be happy and optimistic when your not is just as bad as trying to force your life and circumstances to go in a certain way. That’s what I was talking about last post.

Shit, im late for work now and I have to brush my teeth.

Ughg. Ok bye.

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This study examines American Indian parents’ perceptions of parent involvement in their children’s education and factors that may encourage or discourage involvement.

A better understanding of American Indian parent involvement was considered as a possible solution to narrow the achievement gap for American Indian students. Five focus groups, consisting of 47 self-selected parents, were conducted in one state in the Central Region. Factors perceived to encourage parent involvement included a caring, supportive, and communicative school staff and culturally respectful environment; access to American Indian programs, resource centers, after school activities, and clubs; and the presence of an advocate or liaison in each school. Factors perceived to discourage parent involvement included feeling unwelcome or intimidated at the school and perceptions of racism and discrimination; experiencing scheduling, transportation, childcare, and financial difficulties; and having prior negative experiences in their own or their children’s education.

Read more about American Indian perspectives on childhood education here.

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Have you ever had to start your life over again? You know, really start it over. If all of a sudden your job – and the market it was based on – crashes, what would you do? You couldn’t just go out and get another job, since none exist in terms of what you are qualified or trained to do. You would really have to start over, from scratch. This is exactly what happened to author John Pearson in 2001. Having graduated with an engineering degree and gotten a good job straight out of college, John moved his way up the corporate ladder for almost four years. Then, in 2001 the market crashed and John was laid off from work. Just like that. Rather then resorting to a self-destructive behavioral pattern – often the story of a memoir or account of personal transformation – he decided to put his life into service. He became a teacher.

Learn Me Goodis the remarkable story of John’s first year as a 3rd grade math teacher. However, unlike many books that recount an individuals personal struggles and realizations in the past tense, Learn Me Goodis literally captured in the present. By saving his almost daily emails to a friend who happened to work at the very same company that John was laid off from, the book gives the reader an intimate, refreshing, and in-the-moment account of just what it is like to be a teacher.

Read more about what it takes to be a teacher here.

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::sigh:: and relief.

when you've been composing a blog entry all day in your mind, metaphorically cutting and pasting daydreams and weaving them into some sort of beautiful piece of coherent thought... one thats significant enough to get out of your head and onto the screen as your first entry in your new bloggggg... well it just never comes out quite as profound as intended... thats all.

but to sit down with the lights out and silence surrounding you is a beautiful and much needed thing. the click of the keyboard and the humm of the air conditioner are making me very happy right now. it has bee an exhausting day, but not for any of the reasons that should really make a day exhausting. let me begin at the beginning:

i slept well last night. i slept a lot rather. it was kind of interrupted by anxious dreams about upcoming board exams... although the dreams were not completely literal, i know this anxiety is where they stemmed from. i finally woke up this morning kind of grateful that i didnt have to sleep and think in this endless cycle of nonsensical test taking. i will pass my boards, it will be fine, and besides all that, its months from now, and i am preparing. so i wake up- right. small cat helps, she is very good at letting me know that the alarm clock going off means its time for her to eat, and not for me to fall back asleep. she is much better than a snooze button. so i get up, shower, somehow manage to get ready, saute  some veggies for an omelette, eat the most delicious breakfast ever, pack half of it for lunch, go to the coffee shop for my coffee, get gas and still get on the road at the right time. this NEVER happens. i have a problem with being late places.. i dont like this, but it is more so true than not. anyway... so the most productive and thoughtful part of my day took place while letting my mind wonder on the way to work this morning. i guess i was feeling pretty optimistic with seeing that happy 7:59 on the clock as i hit I-4, as opposed to seeing a regretful 8:23 or so. oi.

its always difficult for me to recap thought processes, especially 12 hours later, but ill do my best... and im going to try to just sort of describe  what came of it i guess. anyway.  my life, my mind, my goals are defined very clearly as 'the way they should be' in my mind, and i am very hard on myself when they are not that way. i get frustrated. if you ask me how i am, a good majority of the time if i answer honestly, which i dont, i would say 'frustrated and unsettled'. not to say i dont have good things going on, i have a ton of good things going on. i have a great life. i am about 9 months away from getting my masters degree in oriental medicine, i have the job of my dreams which serves as a gateway to the job of my even bigger dreams once i get my degree and license. i have a good home with cheap rent and great roomies, the best cat in the world, and awesome and supportive friends.  so yeah. lifes good. but let me tell you how glossed over that is. we always want what is just out of reach right? we want things to go a certain way, we dwell on what we dont have too often, and reprimand ourselves for doing so, because we know its erroneous thinking. we get anxious about the difficult things we are up against and we take for granted the simple ones, almost choosing the anxiety of the scary things over the relaxation of the simple ones. maybe "we" is unfair... but  "i" is just the truth.  so anyway... i get sad, i get frustrated that im not moving as quickly in the direction i want, i get angry with myself for not trying hard enough.  i get frustrated at the lack of social life i have developed and the lack  of progress i feel like im making in my career... even though i know i cant really rush it, i want to. (did i mention i get side tracked and repeat myself way too much? bear with me, i usually have a point)

so i had this moment of clarity as im unusually awake on my hour long drive to work singing to some singable cd... and life turned into this game in my mind. i think what happened was that i accidentally stepped back and suddenly took myself less seriously. when you do that somehow pressure is released, but without sacrificing achievement or progress... just pressure. and my god that was exhilarating. suddenly life was shown to me as a series of challanges that have to be worked through to get to the prize at the end. you fight the good fight and you award yourself the prize of your choice. i began to see these 'extremely stressful situations' i find myself in daily as puzzles to be worked out and triumphed over. it became ok to feel a sense of victory and pride when overcoming something that would normally 'stress me out'. like puzzle games... i mean... i love puzzle games, and they are a great analogy for life. i willingly pick them up and play them, and have fun with it... but the fun comes in the triumph and the thought process that gets you there. for some reason in life we transform this thought process into "stress" and we let it defeat us. it hurts us mentally and physically, then we have less to work with to figure out the puzzle. often times because of this we end up with an unresolved puzzle, and are forced to move on to the next one, and before you know it we have a land of misfit puzzle games at our feet. that sucks.

without intentionally turning this into a pseudo and ameture self  help novel, i just want to express my excitement for this realization. it just felt good.  i started seeing mysellf (i visually day dream ALOT)  kind of moving through my day, my life coming into these situations and problems being hurled at me and me dodging them and moving through them with some matrix-esque moves. i guess thats a seperate analogy, but you get the idea. this is just the way my brain works. nothing is as it seems, it is always an analogy begging to be made, and a lesson to be learned.

this optimism lasted for about the first 30 minutes after i arrived at work, then quickly dissipated and i went back to my standard "internally pessimistic, externally supportive of everyone elses issues but my own" mind set. meh.

so after 8 hours of this, (it wasnt a bad day, really, just tiring, i just didnt want to be around people, ive kind of bee in that solitary mode the past few weeks), i came to my mom's house for dinner because she lives closer to my work than i do so i stay here sometimes when i work 2 days in  a row, saves gas.

she wasnt feeling well so i went to the healthfood store to get her some stuff to fix her up and had to hurry as much as possible because i had like 13 minutes to get there. of course i hit every redlight possible and the more i envisioned this journey to the store going the way i wanted it to the more tense i got and the more frustrated i got when i hit the next redlight, or the truck next to me wouldnt let me over. so i made it, got my stuff, and headed back to her house. on the way home i drove slowly and let myself fall into my thoughts-

you are all familiar with "the secret" yes? good. i thought so. if not then in a nutshell- the power of manifestation. positive thoughts make positive things happen, negative thoughts make negative things happen. theres basically a cult out there right now for this book turned movie that has swept the nation (or at least the population of open minded, frustrated, and/or desperately lost folk) by storm. im not saying im not for it... i am. shit, i have a copy of the movie. hah. but today i saw it in another light. i kind of feel like what this "secret" has done for us is turn us from a bunch of frustrated 'things suck now' people into a bunch of optimistic future focused 'lets ignore now because im creating a better future' people. when things seem to suck, that feels good. taking the power back. god knows we could use a morale boost in this country as a whole right about now, i dont care who you are. and i must admit, that as im speeding up to stop lights i imagine them turning green with all my strength... just in time to come to a screeching hault when the turn red.  the point i am spinning around lies somewhere in the thought that maybe if we just stop focusing so hard on what we want things to be... on making things what WE thing they should be, maybe if we surrender a little bit of this power we are so desperately holding on to and stop trying to focus on what we want the future to be all the time it would be a hell of a lot easier to accept and work through the stuff we come up against every day. maybe if we didnt see every little thing that steps off our idea of  what should be happening so that the ultimate goals can be reached as a setback it wouldnt be as frustrating stressful and we could just work through that little puzzle game until it was finished, set it in our pile of complete puzzles and move on to the next. what difference does it make what puzzle we work out next... its all going to the same place- its all going behind us, and ultimately as long as we keep working at these puzzles we are still going forward.

this was my reminder today. haha and to summarize all of that in one stupid sentence i guess one could use the overplayed phrase 'just roll with the punches'.

i<3 complicating things? :)

-haeli

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Courtesy of Digital Photography School, I recently watched an excellent tutorial on using Photoshop to add make-up to a subject. Have a look:

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Leapster 2

Educational Hand-Held Gaming Console for Children

Link: Leapfrog

Leapster 2

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I had spent so much time blogging today...First I had to fix something in my old blog...Second, I tried to study Chinese OMG...I surrender, I just can't do it...Third...a friend referred me to a site to study Korean language...I think it would take so much of my time...so maybe it's better to do it during our sem break...besides there are lots of things to do in school nowadays^^...

Yesterday we had the press con...and we just won one of the six categories given..  sigh....anyway it's not bad for newcomers (my pupils were neophytes in the competition)....and we bagged the third place^^....maybe next time we shall have the first place^^....

I had the chance to befriend some teachers in our district and one asked me to let her photocopy some of our IRI reports(reading reports)...but we have to go to a shop for the photocopies so she even volunteered and asked some schools to pay extra amount for them (they still don't have copies of the reports) but I noticed that she did not pay enough for her own....She said she would just pay for her copies at the shop....At the shop she made some bargains with the copies and then she had to pay less amount for them...then she had so much change left...without even paying for her own...She said to me...she had bargained for them so why should she give back the change of those schools who asked her a favor...And worst she told me that we should share with the excess money...So now I got half of it since half were with that crooked teacher... but I will give mine to our principal on Tuesday (no classes tomorrow)  bec. I can't bear to have even a little amount of money out of cheating...How this person really made my day so bad!....Luckily....when I went home last Friday I received letters from a friend here at vox that made my day so bright...Yes "there's no rest for the wicked "....I just hope teachers should be role models of honesty...At times I can't blame people who lose their trust and confidence on teachers...coz at times they needed to be taught instead of them teaching others....

friends

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I can not wait but at the same time I am terribly frightened....I'm 17 and their trying to call me an adult lol No Way! I know I'm still a baby in this world when it comes to strenth, experience and wisdom but I'm learning slowly I think the worst mistake I've made is worrying too much lol causing me to sendi myself through panic attacks and trying to fix things that aren't broken......low self esteem is the root of all akwardness its the reason why people lose friends and make enemys. Wether it shows it self in self deprecation or uninhibited cockiness its the same thing and believe me I have had extremly low self esteem in these last couple teen years(I know... how unattractive) but I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just like the Terminator;-) and I know how hard its been going through so many feeling and so much confusion and no one understands it....not even you...so I'm spending a lot of my time trying to help other kids in my age group when I see they need some one because I know how cruel kids can be even bestfriends because kids in general are very selfish it's just part of our nature(have you ever read Peter Pan....the movie is fluff read the book if you wanna get anything out of the fairytale) but they say things like "well its not my problem" or "sucks for" or "I'd kill myself if that happened to me" and that is comming from bestfriends....but like I said that's how kids think of things they see a kid make a fool of their self they don't help they laugh....if they see a person get in a bad sitchution they say "thank God that wasn't me" and I don't wanna be like that so here are some of my Basic plans for fall

1. I'm starting the *Project DM425*!!!!!! where I'm goign to take my Bestfriend DM425 and turn her into a tob model well I love fashion and I love helping my friends (it keeps your worth in perspective) so I told her she will be my Culminating Project lol. I plan on basicly tuning my stylist skill, I'm pretty thin my friends call me size 0 lol and I'm good in basicly any style but I'm trying to teach myself more about working with other body types.

2. I'm registering to take classes @ PRATT-fine arts center and I can't wait I have never taken an art class before, it will be an adult class and I work better with adults anyway so this will be fun

3.I'm getting my permit, so I can start driving goodness this is going to be scary, I keep procrastinating on reading the washington state drivers guide lol

4.I'm going to New York City for TEEN VOGUE Fashion University this Fall!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait! I can't wait! I can't wait! (I have not left Washington since I was 2 years old and I'm dying from 20sickness over here)

5. Working on my Gold Award and making the most of my last year in Girl Scouts (*tear)

6. Getting a job to pay for New York, college classes and PRATT (I have had a job before when I was 15 but I wasn't really on the payrole because I was 15 but it was pretty cool running an entire store by your self opening up, checking people out sorting the merchandise, stalking the till, counting the money, and shutting down 7 dollars a hour, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week isn't that bad for a 10th grader) I am very picky when it comes to the places I would like to work (not really a grocery store, fast food restraunt typa girl)if I work, I want to work some where that I will learn things to help me in future careers. I live right next to a Kohle's and I would love to work there but you have to be 18 or older...poo=(
But my parents had this great idea about working at Sprint. I have been a Girl Scout for umteen years and I can sell like no body's business and I could learn more about marketing and salesmanship.
Plus I'm selling Avon this year No Doubt about it so that is a lil Extra on the side.....and who would not buy makeup from Ebonydoll? (tell me please because I will find them and change their minds)

7. I'm working on my Trophy Wife Statiss(lol) well that's what we call it here and since becoming a teenager I have lost a lot of my brownie points with my depressed, agree state of being. I also need to learn
1. how to cook Cajon/soulfood food
2. how to cook Somali food
3. how to cook authentic mexican food
4. how to speak basic Somali
5. how to speak basic Russian
6. become emotionaly independent
7. become finacially independent
8. how to drive
9. get more comfortable around babies
10. Learn about teaching because I'm going to have very large family(in Gods Will) and they will be going to school along with being homeschooled because I want to travel

There's my list for the fall.

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I am an executive coach and blogger newbie.  I feel like I am a bit from the age of dinosaurs the more I learn about the blogosphere.  At the same time I am feeling pretty excited.  It's akin to discovering a whole new and fascinating universe.  I am hoping to learn as much as I can in a fairly short time. 

Does anyone out there have any tips for me or suggestions of great blogs or sites which could help me out?

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Learning Annex Online Education

http://www.learningannex.com/

online education for anyone at Learning Annex.

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Well, the summer holidays are truly over. Not only have the kiddoes gone back to school but it is freezing!

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In spirit of Labor Day, what are some things you love about your job?

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I am an academic reference librarian.  This means that I work in a college/university library and I work with the library users directly, helping them to answer questions they have.  My job is awesome!  :D

What do I love about my job?  I love that I help people.  I help people find information, understand it, and apply it.

It's just that simple.  Knowledge is important...immensely important.  If you know how to find information, understand it, know if it's good information, apply it to situations, and finally, add it to your life knowledge and build upon it...then you can do anything.  This is where invention comes from.  Ideas that change the world, better society, help humanity.

I help people to learn that skill and I love doing it.

I also love that I learn new things along the way.  I don't know all information, I just know how to find it.  It's not about knowing everything...it's about knowing how to seek out information and apply it and build on it.

I put no stock in genius...I put stock in learners.  It's doesn't matter what level you are learning at...as long as you are constantly learning.  That is all that matters.

And with my job, I learn new things every time I'm asked a question.  Sometimes, it's a topic to which I already know the answer, but I still learn a new way to teach it, or perhaps a new way to access the information.  I might learn a new way to apply it as well, because some people share with me why they need the information (it can be very helpful in understanding exactly what they need).

Sometimes, I don't know the topic at all, but during the interaction with the seeker and the search for the information, I learn many things.  I've found many topics of interest to me through this process.  The world is big and there is much to learn.  You can't expect to learn it all from your hometown.  If you can't travel and explore...you can at least learn how to navigate information resources, such as libraries.  :)  There are portals to other times, other countries, other cultures, and many, many new things to learn.  You just need to learn how to access those portals and use them effectively.

It's not difficult, just takes a little practice.  Once you can do that...there will be many fun and exciting adventures awaiting you!

And I'm always here to help.  :D

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