Eleni is my daughter and, more notably, she is my mother’s granddaughter. Here’s how you can tell: The other day she said, “Jason’s face just lit up when he saw the fire.” (Yes, Virginia: chickens do have pecking orders and crows have their nests.) My students, too, provided me with food for thought this week. “Duck is an animal that has a long mouse.” “A aunt is a small black insect that bite.” “A panda […]
Read moreMonth: May 2011
Student English
I asked my intermediate students to write about what they would change about themselves if they could. Two chose to be taller. Here’s what the Japanese woman had to say about height: “If my eyes were tall, I could see view.” And the young Korean man wanted to be tall so his son would also be tall: “If I had tall, my son would not be short-tall. So he would not hate me.” I asked […]
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A couple days ago, Eleni gave me some advice: Balls to the wall, Mom. She was encouraging me to move full-speed ahead on some endeavor. Frankly, I was a little taken aback, thinking it an odd suggestion to give to someone who is distinctly ball-less. Now I’m wondering if she wasn’t onto something. This morning, two of my (male, of course) students at a certain Silicon Valley college got into a shouting match in the […]
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