Category: Education

Master of All I Survey

Well, I can’t see how it could have gone any other way, considering how hard I’ve worked, but life can be cruel and nothing is certain. So I was pleased when I received this e-mail from a professor at SIT, my reader for my master’s portfolio. Hi Ginna: I’ve read and approved your portfolio.  Well done! Good luck on your next steps as a language teacher, and as an MAT alumna! Congratulations! [Signature deleted in […]

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A Post for My Classmates

Guys, I’ve selected and retouched photos of all of you. Below are those we plan to use in our Sandanona program to accompany the description of your presentation. If any of you has an objection, e-mail me by 5:00 this Monday (the 10th), and we won’t include a picture. We’ll be using other photos, too — of our classes, gatherings, teaching. These will be surprises. If you don’t want any photos of you in the […]

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My Life in Venn

Today out in my yard I saw a scarlet cardinal sunbathing atop a mass of golden forsythia near a swath of new, emerald grass. It would have been an even more interesting sight had the bird been reclining on its feathery back, wearing shades and sipping a Mai Tai. But this is the Northeast, where birds are traditional. I cut class tonight for the first time. It was only Spanish, which isn’t for credit. Instead […]

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