Pitchfork vs. The Onion
Pitchfork Gives Music a 6.8
News
So on Friday morning I received an e-mail from the Académie de Dijon. This was at once delightful and disappointing: They have my arrêté de nomination, they know I exist, they have a job for me, they want me to come. But I can’t have the arrêté yet, because it needs to […]
Assisting in a French class
As it turns out, when events worth blogging about occur in my life, I am too busy to write about them. Let’s start with Thursday morning.
Armed with 18 page-size photos from my travels in France, I went to talk to Mme. G’s eighth-grade French class. I knew basically nothing about France prior to […]
On translating Harry Potter
When Harry Meets Hebrew
More on l’assistanat
A WikiBook about being an assistant in France.
Yet more useful resources
British Council’s site for language assistants
More useful resources
English language assistant in primary school–a guide.
Amazon lists
Some lists of ESL books on amazon: one, two, three, four.
Teaching resources
Resources for ESL/EFL Teachers
Tickets, certificates and (boom) headshots
Joe and I bought tickets this morning. (Woo!) One-way from Cincinnati to Paris on September 25 for $560. That nice fare is courtesy of airfare.com. Not too bad, considering that at Delta’s website, a one-way ticket for the very same flight costs more than $1800.
Airline ticket pricing is a great mystery. […]