Monday, June 9, 2008

I Am an Accomplished Woman

Tonight I successfully beat my all-time best for the most awkward things carried while on a bicycle. I managed to "safely" transport myself, my bag, a VERY heavy bag of groceries, a huge box of cereal, and a mop all on my bike at the same time. Without falling! Without hitting parked cars or pedestrians! And I was going both downhill and uphill! And I had to cross six lanes of traffic! They're just going to have to make a film about me now!

This was not my only achievement today. Allow me to strut out my other achievements for the day:

1) I got excellent behavior out of all of my classes (through a creative mixture of threats and rewards).
2) I taught a class of third-graders how to say the word "auditorium" (trust me, it's not an easy word for Korean kids).
3) I managed to fall and scrape up my arm in four places just by walking into the teachers' room at school (that really does take talent).
4) I changed two light bulbs on the ceiling of my apartment without setting anything on fire or falling off the chair I was precariously balancing on.
5) I broke my wooden tongs and my second-to-the-last juice glass - just by picking them up!
6) I fit comfortably into a pair of trousers that have been too small for the past two years!

Yessir, I am indeed a woman of many accomplishments today!

2 comments:

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ElizabethEvans6 said...

Hi there! I'm from Otsego, just north of Kzoo (you're from the one in Michigan, right?!) and my boyfriend and I are heading to Ilsan, Korea in about 2 weeks to teach for a year too! I just joined your blog and can't wait to read up... Oh, and I would just like to say that I've never met anyone who has Idina Menzel in their faves for music like I do :) Kudos girl! Any tips for us? You can email me at elizabethevans6@gmail.com... if you happen to, say, have any packing tips for this little (wet) adventure!! :) Either way, great blog!

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Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!
Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
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Have we not darken’d and dazed ourselves with books long enough?

Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go, And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

O my brave soul!
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