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- Sara from home, let me speak for all Bay Area baseball fans, A’s and Giants alike, when I say BLEHHHHHHHHHH! To even refer to yourself as a “part-time Red Sox fan” breaks my heart.
- On the other hand, thanks for reminding me about the “Sweet Caroline” Red Sox affiliation. I almost taught that song to my kids. Think of that. How could I have lived with myself?
- For better or for worse, I suggested Koa teach it to his kids.
- Today was my first day teaching science. I started the class by saying, “My name is Matthew, and I’m your new science teacher.” And I heard one girl in the back go, “Yessssss.” I’m giving her an A.
- The cat’s recovering fine. She was very unfriendly on Tuesday night, but she’s been extra-friendly ever since. This little respite is giving my perpetual scratches time to heal.
- A girl from the National University of Samoa came to me for help with a math problem last week, and I completely failed. Here’s the problem:
- Given the equations below, what values of k will yield a single solution? No solution at all? An infinite number of solutions?
x – y = 3
2x – 2y = k - GRE vocabulary! Pied: multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat.
- The maumaga, the plantation and tsunami evacuation point, has so many mosquitoes. Once it became clear we were heading up that way, I doused myself in repellent. My family was running all over the house packing up their livelihood while I was took an aerosol shower in the kitchen. And those bloodsuckers still got me! I had a couple bites on my back where I’d been bitten through my shirt.
- And they took forever to go away because I almost never get bites back there.
- The “cute puppy” in the picture at the top of Tuesday’s post pooped in his sleep. Even the vets referred to him as “The Poopy Dog”.
- We all got this news emailed to us on Tuesday. “Volunteers are going to start getting more money. Just not you.” Thanks.
- The new computer teacher seems okay. Pretty mellow. I told him to meet me in the computer lab after school, and when he walked in I was playing “Tangrams,” which was slightly embarrassing. It’s more difficult than it initially looks, but at first glance it looks like me making a duck out of shapes. Like a 4-year-old.
- Koa, Phil, and I got into a small argument about who could best draw a map of the Americas. I said Phil’s Baja looked like a turkey wattle, and Phil and Koa both lambasted my depiction of Canada. There was a lot of downtime at the meeting.
- I’d never heard of a “German bun” until today. I’ve eaten them, but I never knew the name. In my science class, we are studying food science, and so I asked the kids to generate a list of foods they typically eat. One girl raised her hand and said, “German bun.” And, over-annunciating to clarify, I asked, “GERMAN BUN?” For some reason, the entire found this hilarious. It was all I could do to keep them from falling out of their chairs. I don’t get it.
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The road is paved! I swear, this intersection, upwind from my school, has been gravel for the past 6 months or so. The blows would blow over and it was all kinds of nasty. But now it's paved. Hooray!
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Paved!
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Rugby game at Lei'ifiifi this afternoon with good clouds.
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Out with Blakey last night.
2 comments:
German Bun
= remnant from the German rule over Samoa.
Derived from the famous 'Berlin Donuts' that were originally filled with jam but obviously jam was not a common product then so caramelised coconut was used as a substitute....hence German Bun....yumyum
Doesn't k have to equal 6 to give infinite solutions? Any other value of k will have no solution. No value of k will lead to a unique solution given the parameters: x-y = 3
2x-2y=k, 2(x-y)=k, 2(3) =6. What's wrong with my thinking?
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