Monopoly

Jeff and I made some new friends and found out they like Monopoly. That was all the excuse we needed to go to the store and buy the game we had seen the first week we arrived. We had pizza and played with Billy and Sabine. Sabine whipped us all and I think she felt a little bad about it.

I'm also experimenting with this application, Slide. Let me know what you think.

Backup Plans Gone Awry

This morning in class I had a great plan. Come in to class, hand back some papers, and do a practice listening test. I had the CD player and the test packet all ready to go. I opened up the test packet and the CD was not there. Hm. I contemplated reading the script for them, but decided that is not good practice, especially as I was not about to change my voice 50 times to sound like a man!

I sent a student to the computer labs to see if one was available. They could do listening practice on the computer. They are normally available, but not today! Hm.

What did we do? We played Simon Says. That's right, the kids' game. They loved it. We played for probably 30-40 minutes. Since I had already planned to play the game later this week, I didn't feel too guilty for "wasting" a class period. We got a nice little workout - my heart rate was climbing!