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Cauliflower and Humming
Nov. 9th, 2022 08:31 pmI have many interesting conversations with my ladies in my adult class on Wednesday mornings.
Today, we talked about some social/environmental issues and opinions on these to practice passive voice. We were talking of animals in zoos and whether they/we thought that was good or bad. One woman was saying how she appreciated the zoo when her sons were young, but now she thought that animals should not be kept in cages and that they should be in the wild.
I was reminded of how when my kids were young I also appreciated having a zoo to take the kids. The kids spent hours looking around the zoo. We spent a whole day there for a measly 50 cents - it was usually a dollar (or so) but it was half price when we went because it was Children's Day. I also remembered how we also went to a museum on the same day to see a dinosaur exhibit. The boys LOVED dinosaurs, but they went through that exhibit in like, five minutes. We spent at least 10 dollars a person to get in. Probably 20 for adults. I thought, What a waste of money! Of course, I naturally appreciated the zoo a lot more. Now that I don't have small kids, and I am a bit older, I don't feel the necessity of a zoo as much. I understand how people would feel it was just cruel to animals. And in this day and age, when museums provide digital tours, it seems that we could do without actual zoos and have 3D digital wilderness tours instead. Is there such a thing? Then I began to think of the cost-effectiveness of the zoos here and how much more expensive museums are and began to wonder why. Doesn't feeding the animals cost a ton of money? And yet, zoos are subsidized. While museums and other attractions are not. Why is that? Museums should be subsidized so that more people can go and enjoy the art or archeology or whatever.
** I also thought a bit about how zoos actually protect animals from extinction as well - how if we did do away with zoos for the sake of letting the wild animals roam free, they would be out of sight, out of mind, for those of us in populated areas, and be killed off for various reasons including poachers.
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I had a weird day today. I was in a crazy chipper mood with the kids in the afternoon, much less tired than I usually am. In my first class, my students were doing a test. At the beginning of the test was a dialogue for which the children had to fill in the blanks. The dialogue went like this:
Happy Birthday, Jenny! How old are you?
I'm seven years old.
This is for you! (giving present)
Thank you!
We had practiced this dialogue together so they knew it by ear, but can't really identify the written words much yet, and they couldn't remember how the dialogue went so I was trying to give them a hint by humming to them the rhythm of the conversation. Here, you can listen to me humming it. (You can share your version too if you like LOL) One of the students totally got what I was getting at. She is much more musical than the other, which may have helped. I was giggling away as I hummed it, I thought it was soooooo funny at the time.
Oh, I made pizza with cauliflower crust today. It needed a little more work for next time - more sauce, more cheese, but it turned out pretty good and the food made me happy even without anything weird in it (as far as I know...). OK, I just looked up cauliflower and it "is full of vitamin B6 and folate, which your body uses to make neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine." So, I guess maybe that was it???! Plus, I ate a ton of lentils yesterday. That could have done it too. LOL!
Anyway, I thought I'd share a bit of my interesting/weird day with you.
I am watching How to Get Away with Murder. I am in Season 2, I think, where Conner and Oliver break up... or rather, Oliver dumps Conner. I sat there going, "no. no. no...... no don't do that.... oh, no.... poor Conner awwwwwwww!!! *heartbroken*" OMG Conner was so adorable and kawaisooooooo :((((( booo. I'm still watching Shameless, but not continually because I can't watch it on TV. HTGAWM was so dark and depressing at first I wasn't intending to keep watching, but as the students gradually got to know each other and bonded, there were good friendship moments, there were more romantic moments and sometimes even comedic moments and it got much better.
The site where I was getting my free digital books was shut down. Boo. I know, I know, but it's the only way I can afford to read as many books as I want. I wish I could get a proofreading job or something so that I could read a gazillion books for free without feeling guilty about it.
Today, we talked about some social/environmental issues and opinions on these to practice passive voice. We were talking of animals in zoos and whether they/we thought that was good or bad. One woman was saying how she appreciated the zoo when her sons were young, but now she thought that animals should not be kept in cages and that they should be in the wild.
I was reminded of how when my kids were young I also appreciated having a zoo to take the kids. The kids spent hours looking around the zoo. We spent a whole day there for a measly 50 cents - it was usually a dollar (or so) but it was half price when we went because it was Children's Day. I also remembered how we also went to a museum on the same day to see a dinosaur exhibit. The boys LOVED dinosaurs, but they went through that exhibit in like, five minutes. We spent at least 10 dollars a person to get in. Probably 20 for adults. I thought, What a waste of money! Of course, I naturally appreciated the zoo a lot more. Now that I don't have small kids, and I am a bit older, I don't feel the necessity of a zoo as much. I understand how people would feel it was just cruel to animals. And in this day and age, when museums provide digital tours, it seems that we could do without actual zoos and have 3D digital wilderness tours instead. Is there such a thing? Then I began to think of the cost-effectiveness of the zoos here and how much more expensive museums are and began to wonder why. Doesn't feeding the animals cost a ton of money? And yet, zoos are subsidized. While museums and other attractions are not. Why is that? Museums should be subsidized so that more people can go and enjoy the art or archeology or whatever.
** I also thought a bit about how zoos actually protect animals from extinction as well - how if we did do away with zoos for the sake of letting the wild animals roam free, they would be out of sight, out of mind, for those of us in populated areas, and be killed off for various reasons including poachers.
:::::
I had a weird day today. I was in a crazy chipper mood with the kids in the afternoon, much less tired than I usually am. In my first class, my students were doing a test. At the beginning of the test was a dialogue for which the children had to fill in the blanks. The dialogue went like this:
Happy Birthday, Jenny! How old are you?
I'm seven years old.
This is for you! (giving present)
Thank you!
We had practiced this dialogue together so they knew it by ear, but can't really identify the written words much yet, and they couldn't remember how the dialogue went so I was trying to give them a hint by humming to them the rhythm of the conversation. Here, you can listen to me humming it. (You can share your version too if you like LOL) One of the students totally got what I was getting at. She is much more musical than the other, which may have helped. I was giggling away as I hummed it, I thought it was soooooo funny at the time.
Oh, I made pizza with cauliflower crust today. It needed a little more work for next time - more sauce, more cheese, but it turned out pretty good and the food made me happy even without anything weird in it (as far as I know...). OK, I just looked up cauliflower and it "is full of vitamin B6 and folate, which your body uses to make neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine." So, I guess maybe that was it???! Plus, I ate a ton of lentils yesterday. That could have done it too. LOL!
Anyway, I thought I'd share a bit of my interesting/weird day with you.
I am watching How to Get Away with Murder. I am in Season 2, I think, where Conner and Oliver break up... or rather, Oliver dumps Conner. I sat there going, "no. no. no...... no don't do that.... oh, no.... poor Conner awwwwwwww!!! *heartbroken*" OMG Conner was so adorable and kawaisooooooo :((((( booo. I'm still watching Shameless, but not continually because I can't watch it on TV. HTGAWM was so dark and depressing at first I wasn't intending to keep watching, but as the students gradually got to know each other and bonded, there were good friendship moments, there were more romantic moments and sometimes even comedic moments and it got much better.
The site where I was getting my free digital books was shut down. Boo. I know, I know, but it's the only way I can afford to read as many books as I want. I wish I could get a proofreading job or something so that I could read a gazillion books for free without feeling guilty about it.
