Leigh in Azerbaijan

I was proud of my students today.  They brainstormed this creative paragraph on the data projector, to describe being bored in a library, as part of our unit on communicating our emotions called Deal With It.  (The Principal is resisting the next unit being called Get A Life.)  They voted to situate it in a [...]

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Having finished that major assignment during the week I’ve a weekend almost to myself.  Yesterday I spent hours assimilating Spanish sentence structure while reading bilingual children’s books.  It’s a great way of understanding new words linked to pictures and seeing the words used with verbs and sentence structure.    I’ll have to change them over tomorrow [...]

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I’ve been a little distracted since returning in August.
First a bar opened downstairs.  The sequencer kicked in 5 nights each from 9.30pm which put an end to studying and sleep.  I would walk across the yard to another teacher’s spare room and then back again pre-dawn to start the day.  The school finally moved me [...]

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It’s a momentous event.     http://www.patrickmoberg.com/

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I now have a new web address www.leighnewton.com.au
I’ve had if for a while actually.  I created the new site while I was waiting for the old page to expire so that the new server could reserve the url for me.  The new server however was slack in following through and a web crawler has taken [...]

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