Don't Look Back in Anger

I am listening to "Don't look back in Anger" by Oasis. This song takes me right back to 8th grade. Every time I hear this song, I get that nostalgic feeling in my stomach. Flashes of the street where I lived and the people I surrounded myself with appear to me too easily. I am not much of a music fiend. I start liking songs by accident most of the time. I never seek out music that I think I will like. Often I find myself annoyed at friends that insist on playing me songs that I don't know and will never hear again. What I enjoy about music is being able to sing along to all the lyrics which means I have to have heard the songs enough to memorize the lyrics. I also enjoy songs that take me back to a different place. And sometimes I like a song just because the beat is so darn catchy. But I don't dissect music and I feel no need to.

Now that that soliloquy is over.... Let's get an update on my life shall we?

As you may know I have been teaching English as a Second language through a small private company for about a year now. I have also been working as a recruiter of international students for a private university in the area. Since I started, the CEO has decided to found a preparatory college in Redlands. We got all the investers and we are opening this fall. I am now the director of the ESL department there and am working right now on creating the classes that we will offer. I am still recruiting students for the other university as well. PLUS, I was just told that they held aside a couple regular classes that they thought that I would be good at teaching. So you are looking at (....reading the words of) the new teacher of Intro to Acting and Intro to Oral Communications!

Anyway, for those of you who have taken classes such as these, I was wondering there were any assignments you paricularly liked/disliked, things you hated/loved about the teachers, things that you remember helping you learn, and any other precious nuggets of truth......

People usually don't respond to pleas such as these, but please help me out ok?

New Zealand

Hello all! Starting on July 16th, Jason and I were in New Zealand for two weeks. I got back on Monday and have been meaning to write several posts about our trip but I have been playing catch up at work and home. Jason didn't come home with me because he went on to Papua New Guinea on a month-long mission trip. That is right, he will be in the country that just outlawed cannabalism in the 1970's for a month......

Anyway, he has the camera so he transferred all of our New Zealand pictures onto my ipod so I could bring them home and include them in my blog. I tried to transfer them onto the computer yesterday and quickly found there were no pictures on my ipod..... under settings the photo import was turned off. So....it has been a horrible blow for me.... :] Just kidding. Everything will be fine, you guys will just have to wait a month to see our pictures and hear our stories. I think I will import one picture from the internet from a particularly beautiful place we experienced. That will make me feel better.

Interestingly, none of the pics on the internet were as good or taken from the same angle as the ones Jason and I took. It is interesting because there is a huge sign that says "Best View of Banks Peninsula.....20 meters" . And it really was the best view. Anyway, here is a different view form Banks peninsula. And yes the water really is that blue....