Category: Education

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Instant Access to Information

This morning I realized that we have all accepted and integrated the internet into our daily lives. We use it for all kinds of things and all the information is available to us instantly, at the touch of a few keyboard keys or mouse clicks.

Lately I have been using Wikipedia to research a lot of different subjects. I like the way it has cross references and a bibliography at the end of each article. Although a lot of people have been bashing the site and saying it is full of inaccuracies, that has not been my experience. I love the site and the enormous number of subjects that it covers in depth.

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Language Issues

I was looking at a web site about a company called Executive Language Training that sounds like it would be a useful tool to many companies out there that are struggling with communication issues.  They have Swedish, Hindu, Dutch, Arabic, along with Cantonese language training classes and many more to choose from also, to help people learn all kinds of languages.  The list was amazingly long.

It sounds pretty cool that they customize their courses to fit your goals, your style, your time line, and your budget. Not only do they teach the languages, but they provide translation services also, like the company that I applied for here in the good old Shenandoah Valley.

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I Was So Lonely

My youngest daughter has been watching me blog and has been asking me questions about it, so I thought that I would allow her to post on my blog when she feels the urge to, so the following post is from her:

“Last week during lunch at school I had to eat lunch by myself. Well, I wasn’t completely alone at the lunch table. There were two girls there, but I didn’t know them that well. And they never really talked to me.  But none of my friends sat with me for the whole week! One of my friends sat at a special table for the week. My other friend sat with her boyfriend on Monday and Friday, like she always does, and the rest of the week she went to sit with her “mother” and “sister”. They weren’t really her mother and sister, they were actually just some of her other friends. So I was all alone for the whole week at lunch. Sort of. I felt kind of……abandoned?

I hope this week everything is back to normal. Because if it isn’t, I’m going to make my friends fell very guilty. Wouldn’t you?”

  

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My Science Project

Hello, I’m Darlene’s daughter and my science partner and I have a science project due on February 24 about Saturn. My partner has the pictures of the Milky Way and Saturn’s clouds. While I get the information together about Saturn. I really wish that our project was all done and over with. It’s getting pretty hard with all this information. But I’m glad that we have about four or six days to finish it. We’ve been able to do a lot of the work at our houses even we can’t go to each others houses while doing it there. That would make it a lot easier for us. Just in case we didn’t think what we did is good or not. That is probably the hardest part about the project. (I wonder if I should have done it by myself or with a partner? Hmmm.)

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People At My School Say I’m A Goody Goody.

Some of the students at my school at school say I’m a goody goody, I think the teachers appreciate it though. A goody goody is someone that always follow the rules and never does any thing that disobeys the rules. That is me, but I don’t mind being called a goody goody. Even though I am, I’m proud of it. To me I think kids, and adults, should not disobey the rules. I like for everyone to be good, but we all know that’s never going to happen no mater how much we want it to be.  (I wonder if that’s why not many people like me? Maybe not or maybe so. I don’t know.) Well, I got to go now, goodbye!

 

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Backed up sink!

Craziest thing with a house’s plumbing is that every so often, without rhyme or reason, the plumbing goes haywire. That’s what happened to me, I’m trying to wash dishes when the double sink in the kitchen just started backing up. My darling hubby decided to play plumber and try “snaking” the drain. When that failed he took apart the pipes under the sink, to no good end I might add. He then goes to the basement and starts snaking different sections of drain lines when one of them decides to blow foul water and waste material all over him! You could have heard him hollering all the way down the street. Poor hubby, He cleared the blocked pipe, but all I could do was to herd him into the shower and tell him if he can’t get the smell off he’ll have to sleep in the basement! (At least I got my sink back, and hubby knows the benefits of a hot, soapy shower too!

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Mystery Shopping Solutions

From what I understand it doesn’t really matter what your mystery shopping objective is, BestMark has mystery shopping solutions that will partner you and develop a program that is designed to provide you with hard, actionable data using state of the art technologies and proven shop methodologies. If you have a need or an interest in this I would urge you to check it out, you will be amazed with what they have to offer, Mystery Shopping saves everyone in all sorts of ways and gives you a chance to improve your business’s customer status and it’s financial estates.

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Students

Here we are in the last month of public school The kids are ready to get out of their classrooms and out on the beaches and parks for their summer break.

My kids have always loved school, but they love their vacation time more. I am trying to think of some good things to do over the summer break that will interest them and keep them busy.

In the meantime, the teachers are still trying to teach these kids a few things. I know that my kids are still bring home an hour or more of homework each night and still have some books to finish reading.

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Snowed In

It started snowing sometime Saturday night because when I woke up Sunday morning, everything was already covered with about an inch of snow. And it snowed all day Sunday, so we have about 3 inches of snow on the ground this morning. Of course, they canceled school for everyone in the whole state. We don’t like snow and ice around here – it’s just better for school to close and keep the buses off the roads and out of the ditches.

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Hope for my sister’s finances

I believe that I have written a bit about my one sister who’s husband was injured in a automobile accident, not one that was his fault, his injuries have kept him in treatment, therapies, medicated and out of work, and not receiving one thin dime during this whole time. I believe the accident was last October or so, that is a long time not to be receiving any type of monies on which to pay bills and feed his family, they are pretty much in dire straights at this point and my poor sister is beside herself with him home 24/7 and miserable most of that time. Doesn’t sound like any type of fun at all.

This has been devastating on their whole family and it has to come to an end sooner or later.