Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Subject? : OBSERVATION!
AWESOME!

I know now in what context I wanna teach: Immersion! lol... that's not definitive though, I've still got to see how the secondary works like in french as a second language XD

The school was quite... well, let's just say that it's a socio-economically poor neighbourhood. BUT the thing with it is that they've been the WORLD CHAMPIONS IN ROBOTICS FROM 2004-2006. YES. ROBOTS!

how cool is that? They've gone to competitions in japan, new york, all sorts of places that i might never see... *sigh dreamily* yep, those 'poor' kids beat the Japanese kids, the Chinese kids, the American kids... viva Canada! XD

What I have to say though is that in the class i've been to observe, about 90% of the kids were immigrants or children of immigrants. It makes one wonder about lots of stuff. Lately, I've seen a movie called 'American History X' I don't think that many of you have actually seen it. In fact, If you're younger than 17, don't. It's very disturbing (hell, it disturbed ME!) and very hard movie. I was a sobbing wreck at the end of it.

Well, to get to the point, I keep asking myself the question: what are those kids gonna do when they grow up? Will the teacher's guidance be enough to pull them away from this neighbourhood and help them get a better life? It'll be wonderful if we did... but we all know that life has a twisted way of twisting our dreams and wishes into somethings that we can'T even begin to immagine.

Celeste
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

   buzzy bizzy busy...um. ok. whatever :-p
Today is THE day! ^_^I'm sooo excited... and worried. I have absolutely no idea what we are gonna face on this stage. true, it's observation, but still... we might be asked to help out!

Wow, it's 1am? man, i've got to start my reading earlier. Ok, gtg sleep bcoz i've got to wake up at 5 am to get to the school at 7.30.

I'll tell you about the stage tomorrow!

Lilvalchan, you're SWEET! ^_^

keep on rockin' ppl!

Celeste
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Monday, February 5, 2007

Heaven
hi!

Sorry for skipping yesterday, I was picking my brain for ideas for an educational scenario.

Man, these suck to build. I wanted to go from scratch but I ended up going to the University library and, in desperation, trying to find something, ANYTHING, that would get my creativity going. I finally ended up making the canvas for a scenario.. think listening comprehension type thingy.

Writing 15 lousy lines took me 1 hour! Bloody hell! at this rate, It'll be done by june! *cries*

So now you guys know where I'll be gone for a while... writing activities and challenges for second language students. any of you learning a second/thrid/nth language under the communicative approach here? Do you know how much time was invested in the making of your activities supposed to make you learn better, faster and more easily? *cries*

I'll still post but I don't think they'll be very long or deep. just the usual moaning and shivering. It's damn cold here *shivers* but it'S SNOWING and I've got chocolate... I'll get some new stock after the 14th ^_^

Chocolate is evil, sinful and my pathway to heaven.

Celeste.
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Saturday, February 3, 2007

   oyasumi!
wow, we've got an extension to hand in our project *breathes at last* Aren't we lucky? on the other hand, the teacher has added stuff, so i dunno if it won't just put us back to square one.

Ok, enough about school. Soon, ppl, I'm going to post a Vincent fanart. those of you who have the habit of cruising my portfolio have seen something like it already... but some of you might not. ^_^ just give me a couple of days to get it online ;-) I know you'll love it! XD

Tomorrow, I'm going to plan a routine, because the next few week are gonna be tough and i need to get organized. Won't bore you with the details but... i'm already bored just thinking about it. bleh.

The good thing is my stage is starting next week in a primary school! i'll be cooing all day! ^_^

Oyasumi! *goodnight!*

Celeste, smiling idiotically
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Friday, February 2, 2007

   DEAD line
Sorry for this late post... I'm just here to say hi, how are you guys... i have to go work on a project due next week with a friend.... maybe i'll post something more consistent tomorrow.

Haven't 4gotten you, but i'm running out of time *panics* Bye!

Celeste ;-)
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Thursday, February 1, 2007

   blackout
Hmmm... where is everyone? It feels lonely here, once again. I'll try to update everyday, but my workload's getting more and more ridiculous. Dizzy, I'll send you the right song asap ;-)

Celeste.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

   Creativitycity
I took a good look again at the timeline, and i'm simply AMAZED at the number of typos in there; I definitely have to do a new one... man, i must have typing dyslexia or something... :-p

Also, I'll try to change the presentation of the timeline; instead of 'present' events on top, ancient history will be... it'll make it easier to follow then. the curent timeline will be up until i post the new one, which could be in a week...

...because projects have started raining from nowhere on my poor head. I'll be booked solid for quite a while, which is why I'm giving priority right now to ATE writing. I forgot to say yesterday, but i published chapter 2 of POD ^_^. its title is 'Spiked Dice' sounds racy, huh? XD. hope ppl like it. this story hasn't received much attention yet, probably because of my tardiness in posting the chapters. oh well, I have only myself to blame for, isn't it? So many things to do, so little time...

I have to learn to control my creative urges, one of those days, before they totally control me.

Celeste
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

   Ta-DAH!
Mesdames and Messieurs.... I give you - The TIMELINE!

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f345/celeste_bloodrayne/bk/tm.jpg

I'm sorry i can't actually post it here; it would have screwed up the site, it's just way too big. Take a look at it and you'll know how big exactly... just remember to maximize the image when it shows up in the page ;-)oh, and one word of advice: start reading from the bottom up! ^_^ it'll make more sense.

Also, those of you with dial-up connections, the image might take a while in lodaing because it's just about 700kb big.. i know, that's ENORMOUS. I tried to lower the resolution but found that it affected the quality of the pic too much. Sorry about that. What i can do is send you the word doc if you request it, but it just won't have all the pwetty graphics. just send me your mail address ;-)

and, no, Mota, i haven't got a roomate yet. I just expressed the hope that the new person would not be annoying and have some better standards of living ^_^ sorry about the confusion.

Celeste, who's got cold cold feet (literally)
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Monday, January 29, 2007

   side-track, over?
All of you who've cheered me on for making the timeline: THANKS! ^_^

It's almost done... I only have to add some stuff and it should be ready for the general public! I say i post the beta version tomorrow, or on Tuesday, latest.

Crowgirl Q: I say, LONG LIVE the sneakers.... and the winter boots, because I'd freeze if not for them XD

Dizzy: Wait a lil bit, I'll look for it and send it to you asap, ok doll? ;-)

Legacyof: *blushes* vile flatterer XD

Today was, if not nice, then let's say pretty quiet. of course, that's because she was not here for a big part of the day and i could do my stuff. The appt is finally looking like it should and I feel more comfortable bringing people in to visit the place. *sigh* I hope that new person doesn't piss me off either...

On the other hand, POD is taking ages to write and is slowing down my ATE story. I wonder if I should not alternate months for them, since I have the bad habit of switching from one story to the next within hours without getting much done. Of course, working on the timeline also bogged me down a bit and i got side tracked by other stuff *is ashamed* I'm mistreating my readers, how vile can I get?

Oh, and have you noticed? there is a new feature on MyO, called 'Favourites' try it... haven't gotten around to it yet. this should make looking for good ecards easier on siteb ;-)

Celeste
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

   It must be the shoes....
Hello!

I just completed something that I had wanted to do for a long time: the timeline for ff7. I know that there's a timeline on wikipedia, but it's full of errors... and is NOT complete. So I did mine and I'm soooo happy! ^_^

Plus, Wikipedia changed the names of some of the characters, like Veld. One time, it was
Beludo.... and now it's something else. *sigh* I'll stick with Veld, since it's what's up everywhere else on the Net. Plus, it carries a certain something that's not as stupid as Reeve's 'Tuestie'. Man, someone must have been having a laugh back at Sq-Ex.

I'll work on putting it in a pic format and then I'll share it with you. ;-) If you find any errors/missing data, just PM me and I'll check it out.

Today was shopping day, as I said yesterday. Went all over town and tried at least 30 pairs of shoes... and still didn'T buy a single pair. I know, I'm difficult, picky :-p

Love you!

Celeste
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