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Yes, My Lord

October 31st, 2007 No comments

Saudi King Abdullah visited Buckingham Palace, and he received a villainous welcome.

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Repeating Ourselves

October 29th, 2007 No comments

Once again, we found ourselves at Graveyard Fields this weekend.

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Last time we were there, L was much smaller:

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I’ve a feeling that, as long as Dziadek is here, we’ll be doing a lot of repeat trips.

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Feeding the Girl

October 28th, 2007 No comments

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Grandfathers

October 27th, 2007 No comments

Last weekend we had both grandfathers with the girl. One fed:

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The other entertained:

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A Little Girl and Some Pumpkins

October 22nd, 2007 1 comment

What else were we going to do on a Sunday afternoon?

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Big Yard

October 21st, 2007 No comments

The downside of having a big yard is having a ton — almost literally — of leaves to rake. And when the back yard has 25+ trees and hasn’t been raked in probably years, it makes a mess.

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This represents probably 20% of the leaves in the back yard.

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Pool

October 21st, 2007 No comments

We all went down the other evening to shoot some pool.

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Poles in Britain

October 20th, 2007 No comments

Kinuk is out of Polska during this time of elections but plans on voting in the UK — like many other Poles.

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Ojcow

October 19th, 2007 No comments

I’ve been in the process of uploading old pictures to Flickr in an effort to make our collection there more indicative of our travels in Poland.

Ojcow lies just outside of Krakow. It’s a national park filled with rock formations and ancient castle ruins.

K and I visited Ojcow in late November 2002, for “Andrzejki” — the last night of partying before Advent sets in.

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The first thing that strikes you about Ojcow when you arrive the bus station. There’s a tree growing through it.

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We never learned why they built it around that tree. Maybe a rare tree? Maybe an ecological conscience? Maybe an architectural novelty?


DSC02589Ojcow is in an area formerly ruled by the Austro-Hungarian empire during the partition of Poland. The Austrians declared that the Poles shall not build a single church on this ground. Occupied Catholic Poles being what they are (like most occupied people, very stubborn), they figured out a way to get around that. Such rule bending drives me absolutely nuts when my students do it.

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Science in the ELA Classroom

October 18th, 2007 No comments

The other day, right as we were in the middle of our starter, the principal walked into the room, strode purposefully to the back of the room, and sat down. A bit of a hush fell over the class at a time when I do not require complete silence—they’re doing pair work, after all. Still, everyone was especially quiet.

A principal observing a classroom is the perfect illustration of the bane of modern science: the inability to observe something without changing it in the process of observation.

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