Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Yamar goe youm bay!!!!!
"How nice it is!"
I got a package from Momapalooza today!!!
There was:
soft TP!
and chocolate!
and soft TP!!!!
and Baby wipes!!!!
and other goodies!
and did I mention soft TP?!?!?!?!?!
I love my Majikio (even more that I love soft TP ^_~)
I got a package from Momapalooza today!!!
There was:
soft TP!
and chocolate!
and soft TP!!!!
and Baby wipes!!!!
and other goodies!
and did I mention soft TP?!?!?!?!?!
I love my Majikio (even more that I love soft TP ^_~)
Friday, September 7, 2007
Hiechelt Baghkgo!!!!! aka TGIF
Heichelt Baghkgo! ("lesson not there" --> school is over!)
Week One is over! Man alive, it started out exciting and then got slow and then got slower and frustrating and then my counter part when to UB today and it went awesome if just a bit busy!
Today I taught for 6hours straight! I taught all of my classes the ABC's, 123's, and then Jobs (using the I do, You do, He/She does grammar as well as the differance between a/an). After that I got to go home for a whole 30 minuets before coming back to school and teaching 23 of the teachers english for 1.5 hours O_o. My throat is killing me, but it was a really great day. Also as this week was mad irksome at point I mentally compiled a pet peeve list to share with you all.
1. Variety packs that don't have variety. If I wanted one type of cookie I would buy one type.
2. Cursive. They teach it to you in the States and you don't use it. They didn't teach it to in Mongolia and that is all they use. Hence spending all week trying to learn Mongolian cursive.
3. Mother Goose. So what if I was born on a Wednesday, that doesn't mean that I have to be full of woe. Just what makes her think she can predict something like that anyway.
4. Dependency on plumming. My director forgot to pay my water bill and thus I have had no water for 2 days and will not get it until Monday. I'm trying to find a friends place to stay at.
5. Being single. Every new Mongolian I meet asks me if I am married. "No." Do I have a boyfriend. "No." Do I have children. "No." And how old am I again. "22" ..... YAAGAD???!?!? ("WHY?"). I feel a bit like a freak everytime this comes up. I swear I'm going to make up a husband just to stop the hassling.
6. Being 22. This is young for a teacher. I have students older than me. They say I should get married and have children. They don't want to play my learning games. I think I am slowly warming up to them though. One older woman even pushed a young boy aside today to get to the board first during the fly slapper game!
7. Being called Cass. Cass is a Beer name, not a person name. Sure they can't say Cassandra, and I tell them to call me Cass, but in Mongolia its just a silly name.
Oh this was a great week!!!!!! Now that its over, all those little bothersome things hardly seem bothersome anymore ^_^. And I am off for Chinese food.
More pictures up!
Me, "Dad", and Davaa in our Dells!
Week One is over! Man alive, it started out exciting and then got slow and then got slower and frustrating and then my counter part when to UB today and it went awesome if just a bit busy!
Today I taught for 6hours straight! I taught all of my classes the ABC's, 123's, and then Jobs (using the I do, You do, He/She does grammar as well as the differance between a/an). After that I got to go home for a whole 30 minuets before coming back to school and teaching 23 of the teachers english for 1.5 hours O_o. My throat is killing me, but it was a really great day. Also as this week was mad irksome at point I mentally compiled a pet peeve list to share with you all.
1. Variety packs that don't have variety. If I wanted one type of cookie I would buy one type.
2. Cursive. They teach it to you in the States and you don't use it. They didn't teach it to in Mongolia and that is all they use. Hence spending all week trying to learn Mongolian cursive.
3. Mother Goose. So what if I was born on a Wednesday, that doesn't mean that I have to be full of woe. Just what makes her think she can predict something like that anyway.
4. Dependency on plumming. My director forgot to pay my water bill and thus I have had no water for 2 days and will not get it until Monday. I'm trying to find a friends place to stay at.
5. Being single. Every new Mongolian I meet asks me if I am married. "No." Do I have a boyfriend. "No." Do I have children. "No." And how old am I again. "22" ..... YAAGAD???!?!? ("WHY?"). I feel a bit like a freak everytime this comes up. I swear I'm going to make up a husband just to stop the hassling.
6. Being 22. This is young for a teacher. I have students older than me. They say I should get married and have children. They don't want to play my learning games. I think I am slowly warming up to them though. One older woman even pushed a young boy aside today to get to the board first during the fly slapper game!
7. Being called Cass. Cass is a Beer name, not a person name. Sure they can't say Cassandra, and I tell them to call me Cass, but in Mongolia its just a silly name.
Oh this was a great week!!!!!! Now that its over, all those little bothersome things hardly seem bothersome anymore ^_^. And I am off for Chinese food.
More pictures up!
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Yes that's the Bear, Yes its eating my hand
more pics up!!!!!
go check them out!!!
Monday, September 3, 2007
Finally Some Photos!!!!!
Yey!!!!!!!!!! Finally figured out how to upload!!!!!!!
Here are a few teasers ... for more go check out my album:
HERE!!!
I love the Mongol Sky!
My name is Cass! Yes like the beer O_o
Sheep Butts!
My Duus ("little siblings")
more to come later!!!!
Here are a few teasers ... for more go check out my album:
HERE!!!
I love the Mongol Sky!
My name is Cass! Yes like the beer O_o
Sheep Butts!
My Duus ("little siblings")
more to come later!!!!
Hello Real World aka "I love boots!"
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So today was my first day of real work ever!!! It was nervwrekingly exciting. I team taught the whole day and then had an extensive lesson planning/scheduling session after my 20min lunch break (10 mins of which was spent in commute to and from my house) O_o.
I absolutely love all of my students! The are all very enthusiastic about having me as a teacher even if they don't speak a lick of English. I even gave a little speech in Mongolian to all of my classes that basically equated to "I know a little Mongolian, but I always to speak Mongolian. We to speak English must always to do. If to speak not correct, it is okay. Always speak then one year later you can speak well maybe." I think it encouraged them to hear my horrifically broken Mongolian and see that I really care about them learning.
I will be working 30+ hrs a week. Much of it will be tutoring and lesson planning with the 3 other English teachers. I will also be in charge of English Club where I get to do whatever I want so long as it relates to English!!!!!!!! Feel free to shoot me any ideas you have regarding that!
As a reward for doing such a good job on my first day I was given 1/2 a kilo of green peppers!
Then on my way to the MobiCom (my phone store) to buy more phone units I found this awesome shoe store ... It was wall to wall boots!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to get my calves slimmed up a bit and then save up for a few weeks and I am so going to buy me a gorgeous pair of real leather Mongolian boots!!!!!!!!!!
Also I am giving my students "English" names. I wrote two names from each letter of the alphabet (one male one female) and they will get to choose. No repeats in a class. Here are the names:
Boy -- Girl
Albert -- Alena
Bart -- Barbie
Chuck -- Cher
Desmond -- Dwan
Eugene -- Eileen
Finn -- Francine
George -- Ginny
Homer -- Hermione
Ira -- Iris
Johnny -- Jade
Keanu -- Kendra
Ludwig -- Layla
Maxwell -- Michelle
Nelson -- Natalie
Oscar -- Olivia
Paul -- Penny
Quinn -- Queenie
Ringo -- Rita
Seymour -- Sadie
Teddy -- Tori
Ulric -- Ulga
Victor -- Vera
Willie -- Wendy
Xavier -- Xena
Yancy -- Yolanda
Zalan -- Zarina
hahahahahahahaha, I love it! This job is gonna be real fun!
I absolutely love all of my students! The are all very enthusiastic about having me as a teacher even if they don't speak a lick of English. I even gave a little speech in Mongolian to all of my classes that basically equated to "I know a little Mongolian, but I always to speak Mongolian. We to speak English must always to do. If to speak not correct, it is okay. Always speak then one year later you can speak well maybe." I think it encouraged them to hear my horrifically broken Mongolian and see that I really care about them learning.
I will be working 30+ hrs a week. Much of it will be tutoring and lesson planning with the 3 other English teachers. I will also be in charge of English Club where I get to do whatever I want so long as it relates to English!!!!!!!! Feel free to shoot me any ideas you have regarding that!
As a reward for doing such a good job on my first day I was given 1/2 a kilo of green peppers!
Then on my way to the MobiCom (my phone store) to buy more phone units I found this awesome shoe store ... It was wall to wall boots!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to get my calves slimmed up a bit and then save up for a few weeks and I am so going to buy me a gorgeous pair of real leather Mongolian boots!!!!!!!!!!
Also I am giving my students "English" names. I wrote two names from each letter of the alphabet (one male one female) and they will get to choose. No repeats in a class. Here are the names:
Albert -- Alena
Bart -- Barbie
Chuck -- Cher
Desmond -- Dwan
Eugene -- Eileen
Finn -- Francine
George -- Ginny
Homer -- Hermione
Ira -- Iris
Johnny -- Jade
Keanu -- Kendra
Ludwig -- Layla
Maxwell -- Michelle
Nelson -- Natalie
Oscar -- Olivia
Paul -- Penny
Quinn -- Queenie
Ringo -- Rita
Seymour -- Sadie
Teddy -- Tori
Ulric -- Ulga
Victor -- Vera
Willie -- Wendy
Xavier -- Xena
Yancy -- Yolanda
Zalan -- Zarina
hahahahahahahaha, I love it! This job is gonna be real fun!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Familiar Faces
Got another picture from one of my site mates:
will eventually upload my own pictures
Jacob, Kim, Me, Peter, Jim
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While perusing the textbook that I will be using in the next to years here in the Cho, I was pleasantly surprised to come across some familiar faces. That's right! No longer does an appearance on Sesame Street signify your superior celebrity status. Mongolian English Textbooks are the new measure of success. Some of my personal favorites were there: Jackie Chan, Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, Mozart. There were some reminders of famous folks in their prime: Black Michael Jackson, Michael J. Fox, Sylvester Stallone. There was my old roomie Lauren's favorite: David Bowie. There was the family's pet dog Bullet's favorite: Lassie. There were even my sister Meredith's favorites: ET (^_~), and Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson (called the world's most famous teenagers).
In addition to having a veritable cornucopia of characters, the language used is also rather hilarious.
The nerves I had about teaching are currently gone in light of the fact that I get to teach from this textbook, and hear my students compare Dolly Parton and Eddie Murphy.
will eventually upload my own pictures
Jacob, Kim, Me, Peter, Jim
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
While perusing the textbook that I will be using in the next to years here in the Cho, I was pleasantly surprised to come across some familiar faces. That's right! No longer does an appearance on Sesame Street signify your superior celebrity status. Mongolian English Textbooks are the new measure of success. Some of my personal favorites were there: Jackie Chan, Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, Mozart. There were some reminders of famous folks in their prime: Black Michael Jackson, Michael J. Fox, Sylvester Stallone. There was my old roomie Lauren's favorite: David Bowie. There was the family's pet dog Bullet's favorite: Lassie. There were even my sister Meredith's favorites: ET (^_~), and Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson (called the world's most famous teenagers).
In addition to having a veritable cornucopia of characters, the language used is also rather hilarious.
The nerves I had about teaching are currently gone in light of the fact that I get to teach from this textbook, and hear my students compare Dolly Parton and Eddie Murphy.
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