Did you know that the world is made up of 98% helium and hydrogen?
The remaining atom particles are life and inside these atoms a very small part of that is intelligence.
The rest of the pyramid is garbage.
Existence precedes essence.
tell me about my Lao motorcycle culture
125cc engines growling past orange monks
barefoot in their silence
give us the raw emotional direct experience
among a tribe of kids, their play is work.
they laughed and played all day long
poor ones collected cardboard and plastic bottle
along a dirt road.
kids with money went to school
students are engaged in self-study, pair work, and group work. They accept responsibility and develop teamwork and sharing skills. They draw. They listen to music.
some accept the reality they are responsible for their learning. some learn to take risks.
help students develop courage.
some try. some can’t, won’t, don’t.
classes are mixed abilities and ages. strong student teachers help the weak.
attendance is sporadic because of school, family responsibilities and motivation.
focus on speaking and writing. reading comprehension.
listening retention skills. get the MAIN POINT.
1. Smile, engage, and have fun.
See #1.
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein.
Practice patience like water
Give this to the new volunteer teachers.
LBF is a Foundation. It is not a school.
It is an English Development Center.
It offers H'mong students the opportunity to improve their English communication skills.
The majority of schools in Asia are exam-based. Teachers lecture on grammar and vocabulary. Students learn by rote. Their objective is to pass exams. Teachers push them through.
Teacher talking time is 80-20 or more. Students are dumbed down and passive. It’s all listening. They RETAIN very little.
They are never asked, “What do you think?”
They are told what to think.
Independent learning is a foreign language.
My approach has developed a healthy, easy going, stress free relaxed, student centered environment. It is communication-based, not grammar based. Teamwork. Learn by doing.
Get out of their way. Help where and when needed. Practice support, kindness and love, not feeding.
Ask students about The Spoon.
Thank you for your attention.
“My family, while emotionally cold, distant and abusive yet well-intentioned, kind and loving were dysfunctional, trying to understand my vagabond spirit nature. They had no choice in the matter and by now they’re used to receiving strange word-strings full of mysterious symbolism and tragic truths from diverse twilight zones. I transmit between crystals and gringsing decorated with universal binary codes.”
“Really now?” said Mary.
“Yes, I gave my folks a world map for their anniversary. They loved it, inviting friends, neighbors and strangers over for trivia games using postmarks, stamps, decals, flotsam, thread, needles, bark, cactus fiber, beads, charts of tributaries, topographical maps, animal skins, hieroglyphics, and Tibetan prayer wheels with Sanskrit characters.
“They caressed burned broken shards of Turkish pottery, Chinese bamboo brushes dripping blood, torn out pages from esoteric Runes, Paleolithic fertility symbols, vitreous unusual writing, and one of my favorites, a Quetzalcoatl image full of written narration based on the oral performances of Central American myths."
“Fascinating,” said Deirdre.
“Yes, I gave them Olmec nahuales shamans containing animal powers dating back to 1200 B.C. speaking their wisdom. They blended the spirituality and intellect of man with the ferocity and strength of the Jaguar to create their nahuales. Their soul required an animal medium to travel from the earth to the heavens and into the underworld.
“Additional cultural reminders were beautiful blank black mirrors. Some displayed faces others contained scripts written backwards with stories of people, geographies, forbidden objects, and a box called Pandora."
Here's the pitch.
She stayed until 9:45 and left for work at an upscale spa wearing aromatic Grecian urns. He gave her 10 bones. Feed me.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Get out of my life, said Telepathy. You are subservient and I am stupid to put up with this shit. He creased her indifference into a cumulus cloud. It rained goodbye and good luck.
She sat on the bed with her back to him. Sniffle sniffle.
Her fake tears formed rivers named Regret and Hopelessness and Indifference.
Fish behind twelve Laotian dams financed with Chinese capital to provide electricity to Thailand fed 60 million Asians downstream in deltas.
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