Due Wednesday, May 1
Okay seniors, you are really in the heat of the home stretch now. You can not only see, but feel and taste the light at the end of your mandatory schooling years.... It's sort of like "heartbreak hill," a really steep 3/4 mile long hill in the last mile of the Boston Marathon. It's really hard to keep plugging away, stay focused on the tasks at hand, and finish with the same energy you started with, but if you give up now, all those plans for celebration, all those college acceptances, everything, will vanish. So, how do you remain focused? What are your tricks to keep you "eyes on the prize?"
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Post # 27 Where Would You Like to Travel Now?
Due Wednesday, 24. April 2013
You have all travelled to many places in your short time in this world, some of you more than others. For those of you who have travelled A LOT this will be harder than for the rest of you. Where do you most want to travel to now that you have NOT travelled to before? Remember, now you are adults, and will not have to take your parents with you (even if they pay for the trip, live in fantasyland now). Then after you tell us where, share a bit of the why (yes, Alina, it's okay to want to sample the food there as long as you know what some of the food you want to sample is called and/or made from.)
You have all travelled to many places in your short time in this world, some of you more than others. For those of you who have travelled A LOT this will be harder than for the rest of you. Where do you most want to travel to now that you have NOT travelled to before? Remember, now you are adults, and will not have to take your parents with you (even if they pay for the trip, live in fantasyland now). Then after you tell us where, share a bit of the why (yes, Alina, it's okay to want to sample the food there as long as you know what some of the food you want to sample is called and/or made from.)
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Post # 26: Favorite Class?
Due: 17. April 2013
Hey all, I know you are all constantly taking stock of many things right now: days till graduation, # hours left in school, how many friendly get togethers you can squeeze in before grad...the list is endless. I'm going to give you a chance to look backward for a while. Looking back at your time at TASOK, choose one class that stands out as your favorite. Maybe it was the subject, the teacher, the book, the people in the class with you. Choose one class as your favorite and briefly explain why: you learned a lot, you were stretched to your max, you cruised the whole time, you laughed every time it met, you loved the teacher's wardrobe and dazzling smile or his brilliance and heart, you got to make food and eat it...whatever it may be, please share the wonderfull-ness of it.
Hey all, I know you are all constantly taking stock of many things right now: days till graduation, # hours left in school, how many friendly get togethers you can squeeze in before grad...the list is endless. I'm going to give you a chance to look backward for a while. Looking back at your time at TASOK, choose one class that stands out as your favorite. Maybe it was the subject, the teacher, the book, the people in the class with you. Choose one class as your favorite and briefly explain why: you learned a lot, you were stretched to your max, you cruised the whole time, you laughed every time it met, you loved the teacher's wardrobe and dazzling smile or his brilliance and heart, you got to make food and eat it...whatever it may be, please share the wonderfull-ness of it.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Post # 25 Graduation Plans?
Due: Wednesday, 10. April 2013
With only 8 weeks left before you will be high school graduates, you must be busy with graduation plans. Where I come from, every graduate's family hosts a HUGE (they spend upwards of several thousand dollars each) party for them. So, in a class of 40, there are, by this time of year, 40 invitations for pretty much every person on the island - smiling faces looking out from xeroxed-off invitations pinned up in every business, classroom, living room, - even at the post office notice board. Families and friends and teachers are all busy making money leis and gearing up for fresh ones (the average graduate cannot see if they wear all the leis they are given). I have no idea what your customs are here, but I'd like to.What are you special plans for post ceremony? A HUGE family party with everyone you've ever known? Dinner with you parents? A night at home caressing the new computer you received to take to college with you? Going to sleep early so you can get up early the next day to look for summer work?
With only 8 weeks left before you will be high school graduates, you must be busy with graduation plans. Where I come from, every graduate's family hosts a HUGE (they spend upwards of several thousand dollars each) party for them. So, in a class of 40, there are, by this time of year, 40 invitations for pretty much every person on the island - smiling faces looking out from xeroxed-off invitations pinned up in every business, classroom, living room, - even at the post office notice board. Families and friends and teachers are all busy making money leis and gearing up for fresh ones (the average graduate cannot see if they wear all the leis they are given). I have no idea what your customs are here, but I'd like to.What are you special plans for post ceremony? A HUGE family party with everyone you've ever known? Dinner with you parents? A night at home caressing the new computer you received to take to college with you? Going to sleep early so you can get up early the next day to look for summer work?
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