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Well, I've decided to use this illness as a ticket out of this mess. I hate to leave the students hanging, and I'd probably feel more proud of my work if I could have tackled the class well... but as you can tell, I'm not in the best work situation with my school. I'm also getting very tired of how ...

Well... everything just got halted by an unexpected contraction of tuberculosis. Maybe I spent too much time attending John Keats' muse... So I guess it doesn't matter too much anymore, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I guess the advice I should ask for now is whether I should get treated in Chin...

First, I would like to state that it has been my distinct pleasure to benefit from the posters who so lovingly bestow their knowledge upon us in this forum. The names that first spring to mind are LarryLatham, Rania and Lorikeet, though I know I'm missing some very wise individuals. Reading your adv...

I guess this is my own inexperience showing through. Very little assumptions are being made here, as everything on this side of the world is all rather baffling to me still. If you're going to teach them english with an eye towards ongoing education, please teach them words like "pronoun" and "adver...

b=ber c=ker d=der? Is this actually the standard phoenetic spelling of the alphabet? I have a hard enough time stopping my Chinese students from saying 'er' when they're supposed to say 'uh', I can't imagine if somebody had taught them to say B(er)ob(er). Aside from the material that you have listed...

I'm young enough that I still remember the material in my high school english courses quite clearly. I'm actually surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet, but "Of Mice and Men" (Another Steinbeck novel) was a thought provoking book that covers interesting themes. What is the opinion of euthanasia...