So, I really only have about 4 cycles left of teaching for my first year. Because of IB exams, music basically stops after our concerts in the beginning of May. I can't believe it's almost over!
I was getting on here to write a health update instead of sending an e-mail to home. I was feeling excited because other than a stomach ache after eating, I'm feeling better in that regard. At least it's staying down!!! I've been feeling nauseated almost 24/7 for the last month, and it hasn't been fun. However, today, until a few moments ago, I haven't really been nauseated. I'm still feeling a bit weak from 4 weeks of vomiting, but not to the same extent that I was.
AND, I actually got sleep last night. My headache is still here, but I was so exhausted after a long day, that I completely passed out around 11 last night. I woke this morning still feeling tired, but that's okay.
Next week, I'm going to Coimbatore for 2 days for a conference, and I'm really hoping to learn a lot. I love learning, and I hate that there aren't many opportunities for me to learn more of what I want to here. I'm making some decisions regarding my future recently, and it's got me excited. They're still really vague, but just knowing that I have options makes me excited. And with part of them including going back to school, I'm STOKED! (Did I mention that I love learning?)
So, I'm going to go now before I teach again.
<3
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hills and Valleys
I'm in a valley and I can't seem to find a way out.
But I'm searching none-the-less.
But I'm searching none-the-less.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Books...
The BBC estimates most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x
6 The Bible x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie x
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce x
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x
I've read= 63
I loved= I don't know.... maybe 10 of them
I plan to read= the rest of them...
It takes too much time to mark the rest. I've basically decided that I've had way too much time on my hands in the past to read books. Problem is, most of these were read before I finished high school and I haven't read too much serious lit since. That might be a problem.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x
6 The Bible x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie x
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce x
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x
I've read= 63
I loved= I don't know.... maybe 10 of them
I plan to read= the rest of them...
It takes too much time to mark the rest. I've basically decided that I've had way too much time on my hands in the past to read books. Problem is, most of these were read before I finished high school and I haven't read too much serious lit since. That might be a problem.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Hills and mountains...
So, as we were coming back towards the mountains where I live, I was in awe of them. I had thought on the way down about how it's wierd that our mountains just show up out of no-where. You have no warning they are coming except that you can see them. You don't have any hills leading to them. It's just an all of a sudden change to a steep mountain climb.
It just makes me think. In light of recent events and because of them. That sometimes, problems come to us with a preparation. Much like NC, where you have the foothills and then the mountains. You have a warm-up. Something has prepared you (at least a little bit) for what is coming. But here, much like India, where the culture is all or nothing most of the time, you have flats and then BAM! it's a mountain. It's a little bit nuts. Just sayin'.
I don't really know what I'm saying with this. I guess that it doesn't really matter how these problems come to us, they're never more than we can take. We will always be able to get through them. Whether we have warning or not.
Maybe I'll try to elaborate on this one day when I feel better. We'll see.
<3
It just makes me think. In light of recent events and because of them. That sometimes, problems come to us with a preparation. Much like NC, where you have the foothills and then the mountains. You have a warm-up. Something has prepared you (at least a little bit) for what is coming. But here, much like India, where the culture is all or nothing most of the time, you have flats and then BAM! it's a mountain. It's a little bit nuts. Just sayin'.
I don't really know what I'm saying with this. I guess that it doesn't really matter how these problems come to us, they're never more than we can take. We will always be able to get through them. Whether we have warning or not.
Maybe I'll try to elaborate on this one day when I feel better. We'll see.
<3
Monday, February 9, 2009
Spending Time...
... with myself. It's so easy here to always be around people. To always have something going on and to never have a moments peace. I did that much of last semester. This semester I've gone back to being a hermit. Spending time alone. Which is what I really need at the moment. Time to be me. To reflect. To be okay with where I am. I do this sometimes. I know that. And I'm okay with that. I am spending time with myself and with God and letting things heal. I am processing. I am thinking. I am going through the things I need to in order to be productive during the day.
This is how I am. I need this time. I just wish people around me understood that. I'm not trying not to hang out. I'm not trying to be anti-social, but I need processing time. I don't have spare time during the day. I'm in my office most of the day (minus lunch and coffee), and while I'm in here, it's work, 24/7. I can't close my door and have a moment to myself. I have students in here all the time. I can't close anyone out of here. There is no where to be alone from the time I step on campus til the time I leave it. So when I go home, I stay there. I get away from people. I hang out on my own. I want to have time to think.
::sigh::
That is me. During this second semester. 1/4 over. :-) 14 weeks and I get to go to America. It's exciting.
This is how I am. I need this time. I just wish people around me understood that. I'm not trying not to hang out. I'm not trying to be anti-social, but I need processing time. I don't have spare time during the day. I'm in my office most of the day (minus lunch and coffee), and while I'm in here, it's work, 24/7. I can't close my door and have a moment to myself. I have students in here all the time. I can't close anyone out of here. There is no where to be alone from the time I step on campus til the time I leave it. So when I go home, I stay there. I get away from people. I hang out on my own. I want to have time to think.
::sigh::
That is me. During this second semester. 1/4 over. :-) 14 weeks and I get to go to America. It's exciting.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Shut down...
So, sometimes, my body gives out on me. Sunday afternoon and evening was spent feeling o so ill... Monday.... sick, but still fulfill all my responsibilities for Republic Day... go home and go to bed... Tuesday: fall down the stairs (twice) then teach at school all day, get things done. go home and fall asleep before 7 only to wake up at 7 the next morning. today; feeling like crap still. my whole body hurts. i could really use more sleep, but i know i need to do things. I need to be a person. not this shell that sleeps a lot. ::sigh::
I feel so dead.
I feel so dead.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Catching my breath
So, it's a new year, a new semester, and soon, a new house! I'm really excited to move. It will be great to have my own place and from what I've seen of it so far, it's really nice. :-)
We are starting our 2nd cycle of classes and so I've begun my lessons. I only have 33 teaching periods this semester, but a good deal more students. It will work out. Always does.
My father is currently having a bit of a rough time. He has been back in NY since the beginning of December and recently found out he has lymphoma. We'll find out later this week what stage he's in, but he's currently in a lot of pain and just doesn't sound the same. It hurts that I'm so far away while this is going on.
A friend of mine passed away earlier this month after battling brain cancer for 4 years. It's wierd to think I won't read his e-mails anymore.
Life is always changing and always moving on, and all I want is to be able to stop and catch my breath for a moment. Sometimes I feel like I'm not meant to be an adult because it's all too fast paced. I enjoy being able to take time and look at the stars and lay out on the grass. It's pretty fantastic. But I never really get that chance. I like to have picnics. I like to enjoy the little things. ::sigh::
Time to get back to work. only two more lessons today and then hopefully I will be moving. YAY!
We are starting our 2nd cycle of classes and so I've begun my lessons. I only have 33 teaching periods this semester, but a good deal more students. It will work out. Always does.
My father is currently having a bit of a rough time. He has been back in NY since the beginning of December and recently found out he has lymphoma. We'll find out later this week what stage he's in, but he's currently in a lot of pain and just doesn't sound the same. It hurts that I'm so far away while this is going on.
A friend of mine passed away earlier this month after battling brain cancer for 4 years. It's wierd to think I won't read his e-mails anymore.
Life is always changing and always moving on, and all I want is to be able to stop and catch my breath for a moment. Sometimes I feel like I'm not meant to be an adult because it's all too fast paced. I enjoy being able to take time and look at the stars and lay out on the grass. It's pretty fantastic. But I never really get that chance. I like to have picnics. I like to enjoy the little things. ::sigh::
Time to get back to work. only two more lessons today and then hopefully I will be moving. YAY!
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