Who said 14 year olds were mean?

I had the most amazing day today (and it`s just 1.30!)!

My supervisor was visiting and evaluating me as a teacher,
and my class (that`s usually loud and unfocused) were SO nice..everyone were quiet and listened to me, and the whole session went so smoothly.

One guy even whispered to me:
hey, if you need to look god in front of your supervisor you can yell at me any time you want.

Isn`t that the cutest thing you`ve EVER heard?
My cold teacher heart melted at that point!

After the assessment my supervisor even took me and Lloyd out for lunch, to TGI Friday`s and payed for a delishious meal.
Now, it just doesn`t get any better than that!



Tonight I`m going out for dinner again with some friends and then to a Madeline Albright event.

This is a great day! :)

Fo- Anne Kristine -paux

So I made my first teacher fo-paux in the US today (I think, there might have been several in the past that I just didn`t notice).
I said "blablabla....badass"..and all the kids were like:
WHAAAAT?! what did you say?

And I was like: eh..what now?

Anyway, it was really funny, and they`d never heard a teacher use a word like that before! Amazing..my mentor thought it was really funny cause all the student got really shocked. I would never in a million years have thought twice about using that word in Norway when teaching, but I guess here I should clean up my language even more than I do at home in Norway. Oh well, at least I managed to stay away from "fuck" and "shit"..I`m happy with that ;)

Post pittsburgh rapport

I`m back from Pittsburgh!

It was great to be in a big city again..with sky-skrapers and everything (you know, since I am from the huge city of Trondheim).



It was great to see Catherine again, and she has a really nice apartment (and car)!


We went shopping, we went out eating, we went sightseeing...we even watched dodgeball! (don`t ask because it doesn`t have a logical explanation! :P)

Because of the Steelers (Pittsburgh`s pride and football team) EVERYONE (I mean everyone) were in the Steeler colors, black and yellow. And this guy had a cd out with Steeler songs:


Sorry that it`s not turned the right direction!

PS. The Steelers won the superbowl!! :)

Pittsburgh

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Just letting you know that I`m off to Pittsburgh for the weekend to meet up with Catherine, my previous roommate of 2 years in Trondheim!

Appearantly, this is what Pittsburgh looks like:


It takes about 3 hours to get there by bus, and because of school on Monday I will be returning Sunday (during the superbowl - go steelers!!)

Have a great weekend! :)

Snowday!!

I woke up at 5.30 this morning, to check www.scasd.org where we get information about any delays in the school day because of the cold, or if school is cancelled because of too much snow.

And today was one of those days: SNOW DAY!
That means no school..I don`t think we have days like that in Norway..do we?
Anyway, this is the view from my window today:


Not too much snow if you ask me....but I`ll take it!
(sorry the picture is taken from inside, but I fet that going out during snowday would be wrong)

Teaching my first lesson...on Norway!

So gang,
today I taught my first lesson..I had a presentation for the 2 classes I`m teaching where I talked about Norway, and a little bit about myself too.

It was AWESOME (to use an American word), they were really interested, and asked good questions, and they even enjoyed brown cheese!!

Some of them wanted me to speak in Norwegian to them, just to hear what it sounded like. And a girl said:
I have 2 questions about Norway:
1) how cold does it get?
and 2) how do you get your hair to be that long?

The conclusion from my first day of teaching is: this is gonna be fun! :)

JUHU

Gin&tonics and Chinese New Years

I forgot to tell you something really important about Hooters:
The Gin&Tonics there only cost 2 dollars...TWO DOLLARS!
that`s 14NOK...14!!! 14!!!! That wouldn`t even get you the tonic in Norway..
I like this country!

And yesterday I payed 4dollars to get in to a disco and hang my coat..that`s 28NOK!
For that you would just be able to hang your coat in Norway..and that wouldn`t help you, cause you`d still be on the outside, so why would you want your coat on the inside, when you ain`t got no money to get in? you get my point.

This country is cheap, and I like it!

Other than that going out in the US is quite similar to going out in Norway..same music more or less, same dancemoves more or less, same creapy people sneaking up behind you.

PS. Donuts make a lovely night-snack. I recommend the peanut butter cup donut!

Oh, and also: there is a Chinese New Years celebration going down in my kitchen.
That`s all I wanted to say.

Peace out