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Hello, world :8) Welcome to my online diary. I'm Mei. I mostly write about my anxieties and try to work through them in a positive way. I don't necessaril...
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it pulls you back in
Yesterday one of my students asked me, after class was over and she was the last one left in our online classroom, if we would have new classmates next time. Me: "What do you mean? Like next week?" Her: "No, like next round, when we do this again." She'd meant after the end of our ten weeks together, at the start of the new quarter. Ahhhh! I didn't have the heart to tell her there wouldn't be a…
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요즘 discover피드에서 한국말로 쓴 블로그 포스트를 많아진다. (나도 오랜만에 한국말로 쓸 줄 아는지 궁금해서 지금 도전하고 있당~) 한국어를 진지하게 공부를 오랜만에 안 했다. 포스트를 이해할 수 있는지도 모르게 다 클리크한다. 아니나 다를까 포스트 내용 80%를 이해 못 한다. 그런데 그 이해할 수 있는 20%를 읽을 때 승리감을 느낀다. 언어공부 또 다시 반해 버려봐야겠다. 근데 나 아이돌그룹에 이젠 탈덕한 지 4년 됐다. 그전처럼 열정적으로 공부 못 할 것 같아 지금. 특별한 공부할 이유가 필요한다. "언어 실력이 늘어지고 싶다"... 그런 애매한 이유가 되면 성공률이 낮다. "나 자막 없이 예능프로를 보고 싶다" "나 팬싸에서 최애랑 자연스럽게 얘기하고 싶다" ← 더 특정하다! 효과가 더…
the median of meaningful
I’m realizing that what bothers me about teaching is everything feels way too important. In prepping my lessons, the slides, the activities, etc., I have to always be thinking about how all those things affect the kids. How do they enhance their understanding? How do they engage them? Could I be more flexible in certain areas, or are there skills or topics I really need the kids to understand in a…
see you in my dreams
It’s been busy (she says, as if her last post wasn’t only a week ago), but last night I dreamt about my best friend B, and it made me happy. We were in the same room undergoing some strange dating-type event (never mind that my best friend is not single). Neither of us were particularly interested in anyone but couldn’t pick each other, so we both chose our partners strategically to try and live…
my hear me outs
My last few posts have been quite normal so I thought it was a good time to post a list of characters I've had a crush on that are a little bit questionable. Not considered a Hear Me Out to me: Real life public figures whose only sins are not looking like Hugh Jackman. Come on now. Characters designed to be appealing (Gill from Finding Nemo) Tumblr Sexymen , no matter how ridiculous their design.…
(extremely annoyed voice) ok fine i’ll take care of myself
There’s an area on the back of my left hand that pinches when I tilt it back past ninety degrees and press a little. I’m no stranger to hand and wrist pain, but this one has remained for a few weeks, which is a little concerning. I can’t even do something as simple as a plank without it hurting. I’ve not been doing anything new, laptop setup-, writing- and drawing-wise, so I’m inclined to believe…
thoughts from the fence
A lot of my friends don't want kids, but I've wanted them since I was a kid, which is maybe weird. I remember scrolling through adoption websites, wishing I could take the listed kids home and give them a family – never mind that I was ten years old and younger than some of them. Girl, what? For a very long time I worried I was not good with kids. I was the youngest in my family and I didn't have…
tiny teaching wins!
I want to talk about my students and what a good job they did today. We just had our fourth session together, and finished reading "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant – a story that is usually given to 8th to 11th graders – across two days. I simplified it a lot, and still had a ton of vocabulary words to go over with them. But we did it! I designed it such that we took turns reading, and each…
the improvements i don't plan for (thoughts on drawing)
I've had a lot of hobbies I pursued once or for a short time and failed to pick back up again. Languages, pole, cycling, dance, writing (fiction), "journaling" 1 ... I could write a fun post on it, like others have . Some of these I'd like to return to, but some of them I've made peace with letting fall by the wayside. But drawing has never been one of them. It's not that I make it a point to do…