Wheee!

[estepheia]

Maybe there is such a thing as karma. In any case, several good things happened today - and they couldn't have happened at a more timely moment:
There were two parcels in the mail today, whoohooo! Parcels with English children's books from janedavitt and _aayesha_, answering my plea for picture books and text books for my little English class who are slowly but surely learning to read in English now. Whoohoo! Thank you ever so much, Jane and Michelle, for your generosity. Some of these books are actually suitable for my 12-year-old pupil too - which is great. The younger kids still need pictures to help jog their memories, so the Disney books are great. *hug* Thank you so much!

The other good thing today? I always get paid in advance for the private lessons I give to the 12-year-old. She comes twice a week for 60 mins each. I'll only teach her for half a month in July because she's going to England on holiday, but her mother paid for the whole month, she called it holiday pay. That's money I didn't expect to have. Yay!

The timing was of course impeccable, since I was feeling utterly depressed (and angry) yesterday. I am glad I have such good LJ friends because their encouragement staved off the brunt of it.
I phoned my dad last night at the nursing home and he sounded genuinely pleased to talk to me. We talked about 10 minutes -- about dogs and his dog in particular, but hey, we talked.

Will do my morning pages now (which I should have done - duh! - this morning). If I manage to finish my handout for tomorrow's workshop on short types of prose before 7, then maybe I can vroom off later and watch the new Batman or War of the Worlds or both (alas, both are dubbed, yeech!)...

I love my LJ and my LJ friends. *HUG HUG HUG*

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I'd totally forgotten about the books! So how long did they take, I wonder? Quite a few weeks, that's for sure. How odd that two parcels arrived on the same day!

Happy that they're going to be useful; hope that the children enjoy them ::hugs you::

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Oh the kids will enjoy them, definitely. Thank you so much.

I adore your icon!
*hug hug hug*

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Aha! This answers a question I had about reading level... it sounds like you'll be able to use them, even if the reading level is a little low or a little high.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, things like the Mercer Critter books are great because they still use present tense. Or Disney, where they know the stories and just extrapolate.
I could probably write a story using vocab they know (actually I tried), but it's very time-consuming - and besides, they like looking at the pictures. :-)

The reading level in English is pretty low so far, we haven't started using Past Tense yet, but in German all four kids are pretty good. Tina for instance is currently reading Harry Potter 4.

:-)

[aayesha-r.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad the books will be useful. We have more Mercer Critter books that I can send, if the kids like them. I'm going to the main library downtown this weekend, so I can check their used bookroom as well to see if there is anything suitable. Sometimes they have children's books.

[libco.livejournal.com]

With War of the Worlds it won't really matter-not a lot of dialogue in that movie. See my mini-review here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/libco/153124.html

No spoilers :)

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

WotW - Definitely a good movie. Chilling. And it should be R rated. Jeeez, it was creepy at times...

Batman Begins was meh. Oh well. *shrug*

[libco.livejournal.com]

WotW was definitely creepy.

[aayesha-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to ask. Would you have any use for cassette tapes of children's music? We have:

Jim Henson's A Sesame Street Celebration
Sesame Street Sing - Songs of Joe Raposo (Bein' Green)
Peter, Paul & Mary - Peter, Paul, and Mommy Too (Puff the Magic Dragon)
Sing Along Travel Songs
Walt Disney Recotds Children's Favorite Songs

We also have three different Wee Sing Bible Songs tapes, and assorted Christmas music. Please let me know if any of these interest you, and I'll send them along.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you dear, for your offer, but I think that postage is too much for these things, and you've already been very generous. We have Walt Disney songs, but my kids mostly listen to rock songs. I teach musical songs to my little class, stuff like Somewhere over the Rainbow, or Walking in the Air, or Born to be Wild. :-)

Again, I thank you for the books and your generous offer. I know have plenty of stuff to keep my lessons interesting for at least a year, probably longer. :-)