My friend, the tech guy, is a programmer at a big routing software firm. He and I went to the park with his friends and their kids some time ago. I know it may sound cliché but they are European artists. My tech friend and I spoke English with them since we don’t speak French or Portuguese. It was a cute outing.
He and I made plans a week or so after he left for Silicon Valley to hang out. I sent him some updates on the European Family and we agreed to go to a show in the City’s SOMA. I had to go to an internet café to find him when I arrived. We met up with one of my neighbors and danced to a DJ at a club.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
Monday, July 9, 2001
Friday, June 8, 2001
There is a Relationship
A friend emailed me the other day to say he was flying back from South America. We made plans to meet in SF. I noticed that I am always trying to use the popular lingo but I just sound like a dork. Meanwhile he seemed really happy to have bought a ticket. He was telling everyone about it months ahead of time.
On the home front I finally got a new place and have settled in. I’ve been thinking a lot about it and I make noises to all of my friends about it. I have a great location but can’t have a pet.
School has been tempering my feelings for my erstwhile girlfriend, who has driven out to Virginia and the Carolinas. However, as school wound down I started to freak out because she seemed incommunicado. Her emails during this period always mention visiting me. Meanwhile near the end of the semester missed my English class and turned in a bunch of homework late. Maybe there is a relationship.
I heard from my buddy from the ceramics lab. She said she was in central California. Our mutual art friends were all away in foreign lands—in Greece or circumnavigating the earth. Many of them lived most of the last semester in a small house on a hill next to the university. A lot of our friends would hang out there.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
On the home front I finally got a new place and have settled in. I’ve been thinking a lot about it and I make noises to all of my friends about it. I have a great location but can’t have a pet.
School has been tempering my feelings for my erstwhile girlfriend, who has driven out to Virginia and the Carolinas. However, as school wound down I started to freak out because she seemed incommunicado. Her emails during this period always mention visiting me. Meanwhile near the end of the semester missed my English class and turned in a bunch of homework late. Maybe there is a relationship.
I heard from my buddy from the ceramics lab. She said she was in central California. Our mutual art friends were all away in foreign lands—in Greece or circumnavigating the earth. Many of them lived most of the last semester in a small house on a hill next to the university. A lot of our friends would hang out there.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
Wednesday, May 2, 2001
I was slacking
My old roommate moved in with a couple of new people. I think they had some foreign friends stay with them the other day. I told my friend traveling in foreign lands about it. He wanted to volunteer at some places but it would seem that it didn’t work out. I asked him about coming back to the states.
On day one I was slacking and missed a class because of it. I played it off with my teacher and nearly admitted my failure to her. I tried to make it sound like I was busy but it didn’t sound very convincing. I later discovered that she wanted me to return some school equipment. It was a digital camera that I used to make a report on bridges I had visited around the county. I gave it to the lab manager to give to her later.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
On day one I was slacking and missed a class because of it. I played it off with my teacher and nearly admitted my failure to her. I tried to make it sound like I was busy but it didn’t sound very convincing. I later discovered that she wanted me to return some school equipment. It was a digital camera that I used to make a report on bridges I had visited around the county. I gave it to the lab manager to give to her later.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
Thursday, April 12, 2001
Tetrasaurs
I have some friends that were building tetrasaurs. These are kites that are shaped like pyramids. When you stare at them for a long time in the sun they make an imprint and you can see them when you close your eyes. I got an email back from the girl I used to date that said she had seen one of those guys somewhere in the South near New Orleans. It was sort of ironic since I heard the story from two people.
About two weeks before that I went on a field trip with my class. It was another one of those trips where we used the local area as a way to explore our field methods. I had to send an email to another professor that I couldn’t make it to a meeting for our trip to China. The meeting was to get us oriented towards all of the choices we needed to make before we left. I have since realized that the teacher also needed to see us together to get a feel for how the trip would be for us. That was day one of this month. I told my professor that I was getting a passport soon.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
About two weeks before that I went on a field trip with my class. It was another one of those trips where we used the local area as a way to explore our field methods. I had to send an email to another professor that I couldn’t make it to a meeting for our trip to China. The meeting was to get us oriented towards all of the choices we needed to make before we left. I have since realized that the teacher also needed to see us together to get a feel for how the trip would be for us. That was day one of this month. I told my professor that I was getting a passport soon.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
Sunday, March 11, 2001
Poetic Little Bits
I tend to send emails every other day. On this day interacted with my sister about plans for meeting next Sunday when I visit the city. I told her I wouldn’t have my car but wanted to go to Tuolumne County. I commented on her newborn baby. I also sent an email to my erstwhile girlfriend. I told her that things were pretty normal here at home and that I’m going to school. I generally would send her poetic little bits and work in my daily activities. I sent a third email to my friend visiting South America to see what he was up to. I shared my academic plans—like my trip to China—and would send him updates about the ladies that I know.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
Monday, February 5, 2001
CBI and CALLA
Content Based language Instruction is about teaching students how to learn but content is a tricky word to describe using language.
While teaching has everything to do with the language that you are using, the CBI teacher should be interested in the fact that the student leaves the situation knowing the gist of what was said. The central theme for me in this context is—“You can do it!” If the student thinks to him/herself that they can find their way through the situation at hand—even in a tight spot—then I have accomplished my goal.
The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach seems to hold some promise for me. A cognitive approach to anything for me involves an ongoing process of experience versus thought. As a student I tend to learn only half as well if the whole class is lecture and I am not the only one that learns to this way. I have begun noticing gestures and how they interact with language. Dance has this similar quality. An explanation is helpful but the whole world doesn’t happen over the telephone. To be shown how to do something is significantly better.
I think it is interesting how bilingual classrooms are less common and ESL pull-out is looked upon with some derision in many ESL programs. However, my class book may be going out of date if left alone. This may be inevitable as the old ways fall into disfavor and eventually new things replace them. If the teachers who designed this approach had not insisted upon being hands on it would have fallen to the wayside even before it got off of the ground.
The one aspect I like the most about both CBI and CALLA is that it is hands on. In order to learn a student must first be told that they can learn. The teacher must become a partner with their students and not an adversary. Given today’s standards and precedents this can be a hard job to do—especially in California’s cities, but given a little faith and hard work it might.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
While teaching has everything to do with the language that you are using, the CBI teacher should be interested in the fact that the student leaves the situation knowing the gist of what was said. The central theme for me in this context is—“You can do it!” If the student thinks to him/herself that they can find their way through the situation at hand—even in a tight spot—then I have accomplished my goal.
The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach seems to hold some promise for me. A cognitive approach to anything for me involves an ongoing process of experience versus thought. As a student I tend to learn only half as well if the whole class is lecture and I am not the only one that learns to this way. I have begun noticing gestures and how they interact with language. Dance has this similar quality. An explanation is helpful but the whole world doesn’t happen over the telephone. To be shown how to do something is significantly better.
I think it is interesting how bilingual classrooms are less common and ESL pull-out is looked upon with some derision in many ESL programs. However, my class book may be going out of date if left alone. This may be inevitable as the old ways fall into disfavor and eventually new things replace them. If the teachers who designed this approach had not insisted upon being hands on it would have fallen to the wayside even before it got off of the ground.
The one aspect I like the most about both CBI and CALLA is that it is hands on. In order to learn a student must first be told that they can learn. The teacher must become a partner with their students and not an adversary. Given today’s standards and precedents this can be a hard job to do—especially in California’s cities, but given a little faith and hard work it might.
This is series is a retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Morphology
I wrote in my notebook about a volunteer project and extra units.
I was taking a class on landscape by a new teacher. She was teaching us about the foundations of geography. Morphology apparently came up a lot in class. I notice a lot of other important names. I wrote a lot of notes about this—four pages. We had a field trip to the maps archive in the library. Meanwhile my notes for my mapping science class were about what constitutes spatial data and spatial cognition.
This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
I was taking a class on landscape by a new teacher. She was teaching us about the foundations of geography. Morphology apparently came up a lot in class. I notice a lot of other important names. I wrote a lot of notes about this—four pages. We had a field trip to the maps archive in the library. Meanwhile my notes for my mapping science class were about what constitutes spatial data and spatial cognition.
This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.
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