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After seven years of graduate study at Cornell University’s Department of Science and Technology Studies, I am happy to finally share my dissertation, “M.A.D. MONSTERS FOR THE CHTHULUCENE: RADICAL RELATIONALITY AND CARE DURING PLANETARY CRISIS.” Here’s to graduating in December (:D)
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My favorite waseieigo (和製英語) or Japanified English, is the word プリクラ。Purikura is short for “purinto kurabu,” which is the way the Japanese pronounce “Print Club.” It is a made-up term that the Japanese created for a machine that already has a name in English: the photo booth. But like its new name, the Japanese have taken
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Cloud hangs with mountain The elusive volcano That is Fuji-san . 富士山どこ 威風堂々 全然見えない . ふじさん は どこ いふうどうどう ぜんぜん みえない . fujisan ha doko ifuudoudou zenzen mienai
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Note: This post includes lesson plans and hilarious examples. If you are mainly interested in the art, read the first two paragraphs below and then skip down to the drawings. If you are interested in the activity, I have included a detailed list of steps for execution in the classroom. I like to make my
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Author’s note: I was supposed to have posted this at the end of my first semester of teaching way back in December, but for some reason it just sat in my drafts folder. It’s almost half a year later, but here it is! So I haven’t written in a while, and I apologize. I got
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I can’t believe it’s already December. The weather has turned bitterly cold (at least to my sub-tropically-raised body) and I find myself once again reflecting on my Shansi experience. So far I have transitioned into life in Machida and as an English teacher quite smoothly. I have so little to complain or rant about nowadays
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Twice a week during lunchtime I sit with some students who are keen on improving their English. It is a fairly formal setup called Conversation Circle. During a recent CC episode, I introduced myself to a new face who had joined us that day. When I told her my name was Lissette, she replied, “Why
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As of today I have worked with all four of my classes once. Tomorrow I have the day off to breathe. If a stranger was to walk in randomly on one of my 90-minute classes, they would probably not guess that it was an English class. I had my students jumping, clapping, playing with a
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My little sister turned three a couple days ago. I Skype called my family in Miami to sing happy birthday to her. My mom had just come home with a cupcake with a candle in it. My dad placed the cupcake and my sister in front of the computer so that I could see them
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