Meet and Greet

[cavedweller5]

Welcome to the thread! Glad you could introduce yourself, I'm Yuri.
Thank you for your compliments FAKE news is for laughter
I hope you stick around cavedweller
I worry that some people dont introduce themselves because of how long this thread is, but you don't really need to read it all (even though most is hilarious) to just pop in and say hi.

Thank you so much, Yuri, for such a warm welcome. And you can bet I'll stick around: there's just no way I am going to miss a single update on those girls from FAKE news....
Oh, and I bet you did great on that calculus exam. Wish my own students were at least half as determined and focused as you...

[silverwriter01]

You're a teacher cavedweller? Do tell. Thinking about teaching college myself.

[cavedweller5]

You're a teacher cavedweller? Do tell. Thinking about teaching college myself.

I am a high school teacher, yes, and do my best to make ESL the favourite subject of my 17 year olds (not much success so far I'm afraid, but I keep on trying ). I also teach a few seminars at college every year, usually related to translation, creative writing or American Literature, depending on the needs of the English Department. I guess you should take your time to think about different options, silverwriter, but I can assure you that teaching is a wonderful way to make a living... I just love my job!

[vnud29]

Thanks for compliment I am focused but I got a 79 on my test
Everytime I think I got an A, I do bad.ugh.fml.

[cavedweller5]

Thanks for compliment I am focused but I got a 79 on my test
Everytime I think I got an A, I do bad.ugh.fml.

Awww, Yuri, come here you , no more crying now. A 79 is not that bad really and anyway you are going to nail the next one, I'm sure. I can see lots of A's going your way, no doubt about it

[vnud29]

It's bad to me lol
But thank you very much. I sure hope more A's are coming my way. I'm starting to think I was retarded for taking an AP Math class. Some people aren't mathematically inclined like some people *coughaprilcough*

[silverwriter01]

Yuri if I had taken AP Calculus in High school I would have failed to the nth power. They actually put me on the fast track for math in school. I took algebra a year earlier then everyone else and failed it horribly. The next year I retook it as a year long computer class and actually made the highest average. Also, when I took calculus in college, I made a B and then C's in Calc II and Calc III. So don't feel bad.

You're a teacher cavedweller? Do tell. Thinking about teaching college myself.

I am a high school teacher, yes, and do my best to make ESL the favourite subject of my 17 year olds (not much success so far I'm afraid, but I keep on trying ). I also teach a few seminars at college every year, usually related to translation, creative writing or American Literature, depending on the needs of the English Department. I guess you should take your time to think about different options, silverwriter, but I can assure you that teaching is a wonderful way to make a living... I just love my job!

Good luck with making your kids like ESL because English is my first language and I barely like it. Grammar and spelling...not fun. As for teaching being a wonderful way to make a living...well...not so much. Teachers are under appreciated and under paid where I'm from. You have to truly love it to do it.

[cavedweller5]

Well, I have worked as a teacher in Texas, in England, in Germany, in Nigeria and in Spain, and it is true that teachers are under appreciated, underpaid and overworked everywhere; it's not so bad in Germany now that I think about it.... I can't say I am a vocational teacher, meaning that I would not do what I do if I didn't get paid for it (I'll never be a millionaire but the job pays the bills) , and I have never shared those idealistic notions according to which "teachers are generous spirits who devote themselves to shaping the minds and hearts of the children and in doing so are able to touch the future". Nope. Real life is not like that at all. I never really gave it a second thought though, I have two Masters and a PhD and it was always kind of taken for granted that I'd become a teacher, mainly because I kept hearing that my choices would never allow for a different career, and before I knew it ten years had gone by and I must confess I don't regret a single moment. Now I think of my own experience working with all sorts of students and in very different environments and under very different conditions, from elemmentary school to PhD programs, from cold and small classrooms to high tech language labs, and I still don't feel like I'm changing the world or anything like that, and I still believe that there are better jobs out there. But there's something about teaching, there are moments in a classroom that certainly make teaching very special: I taught Maths (not that I am particularly mathematically inclined, mind you) in 3rd grade in Texas and I remember I got a thrill when my kids learned to multiply and I realised I had been the one who had taught them how to do it , or when one of my current students walks up to me all excited because now he can actually understand the words of his favourite song (something by Katy Perry I guess), or when I ran a creative writing workshop for young women in Nairobi and I could see how my coaching helped them turn their ideas into meaningful stories right in front of my eyes. Geez, I'm getting all emotional here.... The thing is that I don't really think there's nothing as rewarding or as inspirational as teaching, and somehow it just makes up for the rest. Plus we've got lots of holidays, don't we?

[vnud29]

For the record, I love teachers. Well, most of them

[cavedweller5]

For the record, I love teachers.

Yippee!!! There's someone out there who loves teachers Don't mind me, I'm just doing a little dance here... Yuri, I am going to print those words and make me a poster, or a T-shirt. You just made my day! And let me tell you I have always thought that "mathematically inclined people" are soooo cool and uhm, well, geez I guess I have a thing for Maths after all

[vnud29]

Sweet! Glad I could brighten your day. Make a poster if ya want lol I don't mind.

[silverwriter01]

Well, I have worked as a teacher in Texas, in England, in Germany, in Nigeria and in Spain, and it is true that teachers are under appreciated, underpaid and overworked everywhere;

Wow, cavedweller, my jaw just unhinged. To teach in all those places...like wow. Like Yuri I love teachers too but I'm totally hearting you right now. I don't think you dwell in caves much. Anyway, you so get my star of the day.

That is one thing I love about teaching. Well, I've only kinda taught before. I was a math tutor for my college about a year and a half. I enjoyed tutoring and it was the students who made it worth while. It's...it's seeing the light bulb go off in their head when they finally understand. It's having them make an A on their test and they have that proud smile.

[cavedweller5]

Wow, cavedweller, my jaw just unhinged. To teach in all those places...like wow. Like Yuri I love teachers too but I'm totally hearting you right now. I don't think you dwell in caves much. Anyway, you so get my star of the day.

Yes, yes, yes! I got a star, I got a star, I did! Thank you, silver, that's so sweet. I'm definitely making myself that poster saying something like "Yuri loves teachers and she's not the only one 'cause silver says she loves us too and even gave me a star, so there!" Wow, I must really feel under appreciated considering how I react to such kind words from you two, not that I am complaining of couse
I know what you mean, silver, teaching is all about the students and it certainly is wonderful to see them finally grasp a concept, make some progress and feel partly responsible for it. I am very passionate about the subjects I teach and the topics I lecture on, but not so much about my job (if that makes sense), so when every once in a while I get to see that look of wonder in their eyes..., well, it's worth the effort. And no, I sure don't dwell in caves, though sometimes I wish I did; cavedweller is just the title of one of my favourite books and I was re-reading it at the time I came here and was asked to choose a nickname...
A very happy teacher wants to thank both of you again, it feels so good to laugh like this

[vnud29]

Laughing is one of the greatest gifts of life
Along with Love.

[cavedweller5]

I couldn't agree more, Yuri, laughing is definitely a wonderful gift. It had just been a while, I guess. Uhm, love I'm not so sure about, or am I? I'll give it some thought...

[vnud29]

Love is a beautiful thing. Once you find it, fight tooth and nail to keep it.
If you lose it, then at least you've felt the warmth that fills your soul when you had it.
What they say is true, it's much better to have loved and lost, then to have never loved at all.


I totally went philisophical there....lol sorry.

[silverwriter01]

Hmm, I'm not a fan of loving and losing so I'm going to have to go with I'd rather have not loved at all. Course that isn't going to happen cause love is natural. I love this forum, I love you people, I love my dog. However sooner or later, I'm going to lose all of this.

However laughter, now that I couldn't live without. I need to laugh and Cavedweller I'm sorry you had gone a while without it. Tis the mission statement of FAKE News to keep the public in tears, whether those tears be from laughing too hard or from the sheer beauty of the women we report on. Still thinking of a new update for them crazy girls. Never been to Cali so I don't know how to write about. Florida was just a hop and a skip away.

[vnud29]

The girls still need to surprise Mary

[celticmusicrocks]

What about a vacation for the girls, eh? I don't know anything about CA either. Well actually, I don't really know any place other good ol' Missouri. I doubt they'd want to be here though, they'd be sweating buckets one day and freezing their tits off the next.

[silverwriter01]

My mom and stepdad were just in Missouri, doing a road trip vacation. They were there one day then drove back to Tennessee the next. Uhhhh, *has idea*