August 27, 2012, again (12 hrs later)

Buck list, Checked!

OMG, me and Rachele saw the Aurora Borealis last night! It was unbelievable.  It was faint, green and a long strip across the dark starry sky.  The Aurora Borealis would fade in and out, and I was not able to take pictures because the dirt road left debris that my digital camera might have been able to capture (probably not).  Buck list, Checked!

Meeting started at 9 today.  Finally saw the school, staff and my classroom! I will take pictures tomorrow and try to post ASAP.  Today was just cleaning and organizing my classroom.  Tomorrow, figure out my curriculum and teaching resources and maybe try to start on building my portfolio and developing my teaching style.  It am interested to put my experience and knowledge of educating in the past 3 years to the test.  My style of teaching will be an amalgamation of 2 years as an English Teacher (ESL), theory (the things I’ve supposively learned at University of Windsor teachers college) and placement (kinda like co-op).  Teaching natives/aboriginals will be interesting because they too are second language learners and will require a mild ESL approach (perhaps only a few).  It’s great, because I have experience and I specialize in ESL (literally I just got my AQ course in ESL part 1).  I think I will be prepare, but still, I am venturing into the unknown world.  After all, Fox Lake TRULY is the natives land/country, environment and culture that I have submerged myself.  I am the guest in their home and will learn to do what the locals do (to a certain extent) in order to enjoy my stay and trouble free.  I like it here already.  

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. J

We are a group of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. , like the show. Except we are short one person but I think someone will turn up later.  That’s how the series went anyways.  Who am I? Well we got 5 people (including me).  For the purpose of discretion and without consent, I will just use the letters of their first name.  M and A are a couple here, so ideal they are Courtney and Chandler, we have B, Phoebe. Then Rachele (her name) is Rachael (J. Anniston).  Makes sense so far? Then, who would I be? Ross or Joey? If you guess Joey because he is funny, always eating, simple-minded (not dumb!) and his love for women, then you are my friend for knowing me that well and guessing correctly. J  Here’s a cookie.

A hunting we will go!

Today Ben, who is my neighbor and the technician invited me to go for a nice ride on his ATV/Quad, with a gun.  I finally had a chance to shoot a gun today. Hooray! It was a 12 Gage Shotgun.  My first target was a can like 8 feet away.  I smoked it! Hahaha, it has wide range of shatter of course and you can’t miss with 40 mini pellets. Hehehe.  Second time around, Ben spotted some chicken and shot one. Came back, gave me the gun and told me get the sitting “duck” in the tree 15-20 feet away.  BANG! She fell off the branch like a dead chicken lol. I am soo happy.  Hopefully, more game meat to come before winter. 

Buck list, Checked!

Check out the new video of place after cleaning.

Mr. T  (Full-Time Teacher)

Aka Al-Pachino (part-time hunter)

Aka Joey (Playah)

PS - check my FB for pics please.