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Goody Bags
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These are the books that ended up in the goody bags (some of which were re-released over the course of the weekend): Alex by Tessa Duder The Worst Day of My Life, So Far by MA Harper The Two Pound Tram by William Newton Death is Relative by Edward O Phillips The Crazy World of…
Learner Report
I had my second lesson with my new ESOL learner tonight, and it’s going really well. She’s an Afghan refugee, who only arrived in New Zealand in March, and who speaks very little English, and is pre-literate, never having been to school. So we’re starting pretty much right at the beginning, with the basic language…
Hogmanay
Like most New Zealanders, my ancestry is a bit of a mixture. On one side, I’m a 5th generation Kiwi – my paternal grandmother was named Charlotte Jane, after the ship her grandparents came from England to New Zealand on (for my American readers, this is like having arrived on the Mayflower). Then there’s my…
Tomorrow
Not much I can add to that, really. Except think of me at 10 am tomorrow (NZST). And keep your fingers crossed that Cyclone Cook (yep, another one!) diverts back out to sea before this rain gets any worse…
7 am and watching the weather
The worst bit about having been on holiday is that you get yourself into a nice lazy rhythm of late nights and even later mornings, which is always so hard to break when suddenly your holiday is over and it’s Monday morning. So I thought I’d be sensible and try and ease myself back into…
A bunch of random stuff
ARGGHHHH!!!!! I just spent a couple of hours writing a long and involved entry, and somehow hit some key combination that wiped the lot. And it won’t come back 🙁 Oh well, I’ll try and reconstruct what I lost, but of course this version won’t be anywhere near as witty and interesting as the original….