I can keep going! There was Mr. Whatmough, who decided making me write the same assignments as the rest of the class was a waste of my time, and gave me individualized assignments, some of them creative (I wrote a "lost" scene to Much Ado About Nothing)
When the world wearies and ceases to satisfy--and you want to spend time with an actual human, writing stories with her stubby fingers--there's always Fake Folktales
When the world wearies and ceases to satisfy--and you want to spend time with an actual human, writing stories with her stubby fingers--there's always Fake Folktales
Mrs. Chamberlain, my 6th grade teacher, once commented on one of my poems: "Rachel, you're a real writer!" And forever after, I WAS a writer, because she'd said so, and she would never lie to me. I got to thank her, after my first book came out, and I feel so grateful for that.
Learning the Thai alphabet song, in hopes that it will help me learn the alphabet, as well as less useless at parties. Instead of being a wallflower nobody talks to, I'll be a wallflower nobody BETTER talk to, because I'll burst out singing the Thai alphabet song at the slightest provocation
I re-read Tolkien as an adult and was like, "I don't remember having to look up so many words when I was a kid!" And it's because kids are used to not knowing all the words and having to glean their meanings from context. It's ADULTS who find unfamiliar words a stumbling block
Dinner tonight: chicken phingsha, tingmo, and our favourite eggplant thingy, the crispy one with the sauce. I feel so fortunate that we enjoy cooking together!
And sometimes the teacher you hate the most can also give you a gift: Mrs. Wiggs, aka. Conan the Grammarian, who both scared the shit out of me and whipped my grammar into shape. I don't condone her scariness, but if Whatmough thought he couldn't teach me anything, she's the reason why.
I know nobody's going to feel sorry for me if I complain about how hot it is, but that's not gonna stop me. It's 26C in my kitchen! Boo! BOOOOO!
None of this is intended to disparage the Thai alphabet song, which is a legitimate delight and also very long:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqd...
