Outlining and Crawling on the Floor

Somewhat sunnier mood today. Outlining and spending hours on Tumblr stalking visual prompts is so much easier than writing! And it gives you the same warm, virtuous afterglow. Though not the word count.

On the Getting-Old-Sucks front, I seem to have developed tendinitis in my shoulder so it’s a minor owie every time I raise my right arm. Fortunately, I’m not called upon to do the Seig Heil salute very often.

I started working with my new ESL student. Also from China. The fabulous Lois Lane kept telling me how difficult the Pakistani student was – “My gut just says you wouldn’t like her!” And since Lois Lane is rapidly becoming my New Best Friend, I decided to go with her gut.

Fang-Hua (Not Her Real Name) doesn’t speak a single word of English. Very, very different teaching challenge than Summer. I love charades and have no compunctions whatsoever about crawling around on floors and tables, making an absolute fool out of myself to act out words, so I had her speaking in rudimentary sentences by the end of our first lesson. And got congratulatory email from the Literacy Connections staff