網路、部落格

每當我貼文在我的部落格的時候，難免會想，我到底是在寫給誰看的?
剛開始寫的時候，是想著為自己的生活留作紀錄。知道我的部落格的人似乎不多。以前在SD當交換學生的時候，我常會寫信給朋友家人，把一些新鮮的經驗以文字表達出來。後來覺得用EMAIL似乎是個太過侵入性的方式。我猜想也許有人並沒有太多時間聽我在那裡喃喃我生活中的瑣事。部落格似乎是個較好的方式，願者自來嘛。
我是個懶惰的人。難得寫什麼文章放在部落格上。後來當我自己開始讀一些陌生人的部落格，甚至定期點閱的時候，我才意識到原來部落格可以是一個個人活動的舞台、影響人思考的平台。(我真是後知後覺啊)。

Five Love Languages

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Words of Affirmation
with a secondary love language being
Acts of Service.

Complete set of results

Words of Affirmation:		10
Acts of Service:		8
Quality Time:		6
Physical Touch:		4
Receiving Gifts:		2

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

a little bit fun from my teaching

I tried to make up some exercises to compensate the boring drills that we had in class. Sometimes I wonder if students appreciate them or not.

This is one of the activities that I made up. Students have to tell a story using time references, such "before"（以前）, "after"（以後), and activity words such as "singing", "drinking", etc. There's no definite order for these four pictures. So students have to work out their own stories. It turned out that it was too difficult from student to do narrating at the time I introduced this activity. It would work better with more advanced students.

Oh well, I had a good time drawing the pictures tho.

A Friend Visiting

Thursday afternoon while I was working hard on wrapping up my teaching at UCLA, I got a phone call from Dunfang, an old friend from college.


Last time we saw each other was almost three years ago, when she was leaving for the States, and I was still single back then. :p

Lately I have been kinda stressed by my thesis and teaching, but her visiting brought back a lot of good memories and joy.

發牢騷

我一點研究熱誠也沒有!!:P

不知道那種寫論文寫很久的人有沒有這種感覺。尤其我對研究的議題常是三分鐘熱度，寫完就算了。現在我只覺得所有其他的事情都好有趣，唯獨我的論文…唉…

我只想隨便寫寫…可是又做不到。

生活的現實

昨天去參加了這裡的成人教育的說明會。基本上，這裡的成人教育包含了職業訓練，像是水電工、清潔、幼保之類，還有識字班、高中補校，成人英語等等。會場裡大概充滿了一百多人。我看了一下，大部分都是中年以上，我似乎是全場最年輕的。真不知道這些人本來在做些什麼。說明會解釋了洛杉磯地區成人教育的施行，內容，薪資，工作安全等等。
根據我所聽說的，以及說明會上地區主任的說法推斷，這條路還真是興趣事業啊。
全職的工作必須被雇滿四十小時一星期。連教了二十幾年的ESL老師都跟我說這是件很難的事。因為全職有含保險，學校通常都不想花那麼多錢雇全職的老師。他們寧可雇一堆兼職的老師，約一星期十八小時，就不用給員工福利與全部的保險。但是菜鳥如果一開始有個十小時就要偷笑了(地區主任的說法)。但是這種工作基本上是合約制，這學期就算有，下個學期沒有足夠的班，就失業了。
我動手算了算…嗯嗯…就算做滿十八小時一星期，我還是只能賺約折合台幣每個月兩萬六左右的工資, 沒保險福利(保險是這裡最重要的東西)。而且還不算改作業、備課等等的時間。心酸啊…