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m a e & i s l e s: New Home
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M a e and i s l e s. Saturday, December 1, 2012. No, we're not moving to another city or house but we do need to move this blog as I've met my free storage quota for pictures (between this blog and Isla's) and I'm not quite ready to pay a monthly fee. Our new blog home:. Http:/ mesplace.wordpress.com/. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bringing up Baby Bilingual. Books for kids- in French- for a dollar (or a euro) each- through August 16! The Bugg's *Special* Life. Heaven.earth.same diff.
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Toutes Directions: Formation Civique
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Sunday, July 13, 2008. Saturday I had my "Formation Civique" as part of my Contrat d'Accueil that is now mandatory for foreigners in France. While students, language assistants, and other temporary residents don't have to sign the contract (right? There were lots of references to the "Declaration des Droits de l'Homme", but we were never read or shown the declaration in its entirety. Also lots of references to the Constitution, which we also never saw or were given to read. Did I learn anything? An Ameri...
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Hungarian Experiment: January 2009
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Teaching and living on the Great Hungarian Plain. Friday, January 30, 2009. If I die in my sleep tonight, check my left foot's alibi. Overheat, spin around and whack my toe, which was sufficiently painful to make me fall down. Of course my bottom half is still dressed in school clothes - nice pants and nylons for warmth - so now I'm sitting on the floor watching my toe bleed through. Why is everyone on the planet and everything in the world (mechanical appliances and machines especially) against me?
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Hungarian Experiment: May 2009
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Teaching and living on the Great Hungarian Plain. Monday, May 25, 2009. New favorite English word. If I played Scrabble, I would be in heaven right now. I just discovered what "Jászság" is in English: Jazygia. I have no idea how it's pronounced. which is a good thing, or else I'd go around shamelessly dropping it into conversation. More info about Jazygia, which even Wikipedia refers to by it's Hungarian name, can be found. Friday, May 22, 2009. One group was cooperating less well than the others, and I ...
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Hungarian Experiment: The magic of pipes
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Teaching and living on the Great Hungarian Plain. Friday, June 12, 2009. The magic of pipes. A weird phenomenon I've noticed in Hungarian flats (possibly universal; I've never lived in a flat in another country): the bathroom pipes' ability to transmit sound. It makes using the toilet an entertaining experience - you can eavesdrop on conversations in other flats, converse with your neighbors, or listen to what's happening on the street outside. All with crystal clear sound quality! Tuning up his tractor.
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Hungarian Experiment: March 2009
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Teaching and living on the Great Hungarian Plain. Friday, March 27, 2009. High on my list of "Things I would never have known if I hadn't become an English teacher": computer games give you a fantastically broad (although sporadic) vocabulary. And I can't escape it at home, either: a few days ago I was talking to Tomi, and he was telling me about children whose parent died, "and they had to go to a, you know, that place. an orphantry.". You mean an orphanage? I think it's my favorite thing about life her...
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Toutes Directions: An apple a day...
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Friday, July 8, 2011. An apple a day. My Belgian and German friends didn't know anything about this, so I thought I'd do a public service announcement about the different categories of doctors. So, imagine you need to see a doctor: general practitioner, specialist, whatever. How do you find one? What category are they in? Doctors in France have to decide how they do their billing; either they are in 'secteur 1' or 'secteur 2'. Doctors can charge what they like. This makes your reimbursement tricky...
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Toutes Directions: French University
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Sunday, December 28, 2008. I've been meaning to write about this since I started my Masters, but haven't had the time. For anyone who hasn't studied or worked at a French public university, you probably don't realize how different things are from, well, let's just say normal ;-) universities (American, Canadian, British, etc). In addition, the classic universities (not the Ecole de. or IUFM, or other Instituts) admit anyone who has the high school baccalaureat. That means that thousands and thous...The g...
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Hungarian Experiment: Year-End Review
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Teaching and living on the Great Hungarian Plain. Friday, May 22, 2009. And after today I feel a bit guilty about this, because it turns out they've been paying attention all year! As part of the year-end review, I asked them what they remembered doing this year. They remembered everything - even things I'd forgotten. Not only did they remember the topics ("we talked about personality"), they remembered the content (i.e. the vocabulary we learned)! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). So I've had a strang...
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Hungarian Experiment: Ópusztaszer
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Teaching and living on the Great Hungarian Plain. Thursday, May 21, 2009. Tara's pictures of Ópusztaszer made me jealous, and finally prodded me into making a post out of mine. So a couple of weeks (er, months) ago on a nice sunny Saturday, Tomi and I decided to take a mini roadtrip to Ópusztaszer. It began, as every Hungarian trip must, with the Making of the Sandwiches:. One of the few pictures taken by me. Someday in my grown-up house, I'm going to have a corner cabinet like this one:. I also asked hi...