Jet Lag!

My husband and I just returned from a conference in San Francisco and I am sooooo sleepy! We took the red-eye home and since we fly economy, it was very difficult to sleep in that cramped space. Can you manage to sleep on a plane? If so, please give me your secret so I can try it next time. Anyway, the time difference, combined with the sleepless night, has me in a bit of a fog.

Although we were there on business, we did manage to see a little of the area around San Francisco. It is such a beautiful city and so clean! The temperature is much, much warmer than here, and the air has a wonderful clean crispness to it at this time of year. The hills are green and gardens are filled with beautiful spring flowers, already in bloom, and leaving traces of soft scent on each corner. Within the city itself, the neighbourhoods or districts are as distinctive as the people that live there. The most impressive aspect of the city was the fact that they are so environmentally conscious! There are recycling bins everywhere for us to separate our trash, the busses and trams are electric and posters and signs everywhere remeind us that we all should try to make our Earth a better place to live for future generations. The city had a wonderful feeling to it and I immediately knew that I could be happy living there.

All in all, it was a wonderful experience. I would love to go back again some day to be a tourist there and to visit more of the state. If you get a chance to visit, go! You won't regret it.

Web Class...what did you think?

Hi there!

It was great to see you all yesterday again. I am so sorry that your schedules will not allow you to visit the United Nations with us this Friday, but perhaps I can organize another tour later in the semester! It would be really interesting.

Can I ask for your honest feedback about yesterday's web-workshop? Did you find the websites to be helpful? Are there any sites that are particularly interesting to you, or do you have any other websites to suggest? The reason for the class was to (hopefully) give you tools that you can use to understand why you are always making the same mistakes, and to help you find exercises for additional practice that you can do on your own, (when we are not around to help)!

I will add the links from yesterdays class on the left hand side of our blog, so they are easily accessable.

Would you like to visit the United Nations?

Hello there! Wow, isn't it cold? I think this is the coldest day of the year so far. Remember to layer your clothing, and when you are in classes, take off your coats and hats... believe me, it really helps!

Have you had the chance to visit the United Nations yet? Would you be interested in doing so? Professor Bramble and I are trying to organize a Friday visit for our classes. It is only $8.50 per person and includes a full tour with guide of the UN. If you are interested, please respond to this blog by adding a comment below. We are thinking of trying to organize a tour for February 16th. I'll give you more information in my next posting.

Now that MOST students have their blogs "up and running" it is time to ask you to check out each others blog and to post some comments. Click on the links on the side and add a comment on at least two blogs. Learn to use the blog as a form of communication and expression; the more practice you get using it, the more comfortable you will become in your written English skills.