As promised a few months ago, I am finally getting around to updating this blog. Perhaps some of the more recent readers will be surprised to know that as was announced in the headline at the top of the blog, I am not really single, not a substitute teacher, nor do I actually live with my parents. No, I wasn't making it all up. On the contrary, I am just a bit of a procrastinator. Combine this with the fact I am now teaching full-time, and well, some aspects of the blog are bound to suffer.
So today, the first official day of spring break, I have taken the bull by the horns and made some changes. I am also taking the bull by the horns in other areas--chiefly, where can I go the minute school gets out for the summer?
Summer plans are in progress. Some big, some little.
Hope you all like the changes. After all,whether it's huge or minor, change assures that we stay out of the rut. It keep us on our toes. More importantly, it holds complacency at bay.
Some lofty words for a just few minor blog changes? Yeeeeeahhh, probably. But it's spring break, so I'm inspired.
(speaking of spring break and change, this is the first spring break in seven years that I haven't ventured off somewhere. hmmm. I think I am OK with that though.)
Now go make some changes!
Monday, April 18, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
My Dirty Little Secret
Here it is, in plain bold for the world to see.
I CANNOT READ A MAP IF MY VERY SOUL DEPENDED ON IT.
This has been an ongoing condition, first discovered when I began traveling without the directive leadership of dear ole' mom and dad.
I tried to pretend as if I could read a map. I tried to fake out friends, strangers, and traveling companions alike. You know, you stand with your map, you point to various things on it, you peer pensively around, you look up then down then up, then stride off confidently into the sunset. If you're in a group, you try to throw in helpful suggestions by just randomly speaking street names or routes that are in the vicinity of where ever you may be headed. For example:
Group: Well, how about we try to head this direct-
Me: RT. 30!!!
Group: No, it really looks like this is where we need be going-
Me: CONGRESS AVENUE!
You get the idea.
But my severe lack of directional knowledge was officially confirmed when I headed off to Central America with two of my best friends. I think they tried to pretend like I was very helpful and knowledgeable at first, but we all knew the sad truth much sooner rather than later. Finally, we arrived at the point where the two of them would discuss best routes, how to get out of a neighborhood, how to get to the bus/airport station, how to get back to our hostel/house, all while I sat or stood quietly somewhere, waiting for them to lead me onward and forward. If we were lost, I ceased to be consulted. I did try to pipe up once, near the end of our trip, and both of them just looked at me with a mixture of amusement and pity. Back to waiting patiently on the sidelines I went.
It's ok. I know my weaknesses. On trips with the girls, (or anyone really) I am never ever in charge of directions or getting us anywhere. EVER. On my latest jaunt to Madrid, I literally followed Amanda like a lost little puppy dog. If she said go left, I turned left. If she said go right, well, I did!
I also know my strengths.
I am in charge of finding things for us to do, places to see, and of huge importance, places for us to lay our heads at night.
And you know what?
I am completely fine with that.
I just hope my students never find out. I can surely read a map on a wall. But put me "in the map?" Forget it.
What about you all? What are you travel strengths and weaknesses?
I CANNOT READ A MAP IF MY VERY SOUL DEPENDED ON IT.
This has been an ongoing condition, first discovered when I began traveling without the directive leadership of dear ole' mom and dad.
I tried to pretend as if I could read a map. I tried to fake out friends, strangers, and traveling companions alike. You know, you stand with your map, you point to various things on it, you peer pensively around, you look up then down then up, then stride off confidently into the sunset. If you're in a group, you try to throw in helpful suggestions by just randomly speaking street names or routes that are in the vicinity of where ever you may be headed. For example:
Group: Well, how about we try to head this direct-
Me: RT. 30!!!
Group: No, it really looks like this is where we need be going-
Me: CONGRESS AVENUE!
You get the idea.
But my severe lack of directional knowledge was officially confirmed when I headed off to Central America with two of my best friends. I think they tried to pretend like I was very helpful and knowledgeable at first, but we all knew the sad truth much sooner rather than later. Finally, we arrived at the point where the two of them would discuss best routes, how to get out of a neighborhood, how to get to the bus/airport station, how to get back to our hostel/house, all while I sat or stood quietly somewhere, waiting for them to lead me onward and forward. If we were lost, I ceased to be consulted. I did try to pipe up once, near the end of our trip, and both of them just looked at me with a mixture of amusement and pity. Back to waiting patiently on the sidelines I went.
It's ok. I know my weaknesses. On trips with the girls, (or anyone really) I am never ever in charge of directions or getting us anywhere. EVER. On my latest jaunt to Madrid, I literally followed Amanda like a lost little puppy dog. If she said go left, I turned left. If she said go right, well, I did!
I also know my strengths.
I am in charge of finding things for us to do, places to see, and of huge importance, places for us to lay our heads at night.
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| yeah, right |
I am completely fine with that.
I just hope my students never find out. I can surely read a map on a wall. But put me "in the map?" Forget it.
What about you all? What are you travel strengths and weaknesses?
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