{"id":1180,"date":"2011-11-08T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2011-11-08T08:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:06:53","slug":"things-i-saw-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/11\/08\/things-i-saw-today\/","title":{"rendered":"things I saw today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Where is my mind?  Way out there in the water, see it swimming, where is my mind?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw some dude try jay-walking on a CURVE (brilliant) not on a crosswalk (even better) against the red light (genius).  So when a car came wizzing around the bend, he dove out of the way and just barely avoided getting hit.  I saw him shaking his head as he walked by me, who was patiently waiting with about 100 other people who valued their lives.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a large group of 5 year-olds run around on their hands and knees moo-ing like cows and baa-ing like sheep.  That was entirely my doing, though.<\/p>\n<p>I saw three little five-year-olds nearly come to blows over the right to hold my hand, as we joined hands to make a circle.  <\/p>\n<p>Today was okay.  Besides my body feeling like the Scarcrow stuck on a shaft.  I hope I get stronger soon.  <\/p>\n<p>This 10-year-old girl is taking a 20-lesson mini-course before going to London.  I always get super committed and enthusiastic when that happens.  It&#8217;s not just that her parents are zealous and are forcing her to do extra study.  She&#8217;s MOVING to LONDON.  It&#8217;s IMPORTANT she learns to say stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that she really enjoys my lessons!  I taught her the last two times.  She is so sweet and a fast learner.  She&#8217;ll be able to make it in London, for sure.  She came up to me and said (in Japanese)  &#8220;I&#8217;m able to write them!&#8221; and wrote the ABCs in capital letters on the board FROM MEMORY. I don&#8217;t think she could do that when I first assessed her.  She must have gone home and practiced hard.  I was so proud of her! \ud83d\ude00 I taught her &#8220;Chips&#8221; instead of &#8220;French Fries.&#8221; See, we customize lessons at Berlitz. \ud83d\ude42  Although Ross should probably teacher her a bit, since he has a British accent.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sleeping well lately. I think stress has something to do with it.  I&#8217;m not so stressed out at work lately.<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BlDv44SeKBY?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BlDv44SeKBY?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is my mind? Way out there in the water, see it swimming, where is my mind? I saw some dude try jay-walking on a CURVE (brilliant) not on a crosswalk (even better) against the red light (genius). So when a car came wizzing around the bend, he dove out of the way and just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}