Tag Archives: school

Are Mother’s and Father’s Day outdated?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Cora

This year, Germans are experiencing the fairly unusual constellation that Mother’s Day (May 13) and Father’s Day (a.k.a. Ascension Day, which is on May 17) take place in the same week. Now I’ve never been a big fan of Mother’s … Continue reading →

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A Blast from the Past: Celle and the Schooltrip from Hell

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Cora

On May 1, which is a public holiday in Germany, we went on a daytrip to Celle, a town some 140 kilometres southeast of Bremen. I hadn’t been in Celle for more than twenty years now, ever since in schooltrip … Continue reading →

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Grunge – Dead and Undead

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Cora

Today at school, the term “Grunge” came up in a text my 9th graders were reading. The girl who was reading at the time stumbled over the word and mispronounced it, which isn’t exactly uncommon. I had another student from … Continue reading →

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Sharing the Joy of Bad Movies

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Cora

Today, I finally got around to watching a movie with my eighth graders. I usually manage to squeeze in a movie in the last lesson before the holidays, but due to the testing schedule there was no time before the … Continue reading →

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Away for a few days – and a video from the Leipzig Book Fair

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Cora

Today was the last day of school. Luckily, it wasn’t too exhausting – though many of my 9th-graders still didn’t practice the vocabulary they’ve been supposed to practice for two weeks now. From tomorrow on I’ll be in Yorkshire for … Continue reading →

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Small World

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Cora

Yesterday evening, I attended Riverbank City, an English language music plus poetry event at the Bremen House of Sciences. Now I’ve been hanging out at the fringes of the Bremen literature scene for years and so I met a couple … Continue reading →

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Random Post for a Tired Day

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Cora

Apparently, it’s Read an E-Book Week, so if you’d like to try one of mine, I have plenty available in various genres and at reasonable prices. Of course, I want to publish more e-books. And while I still have a … Continue reading →

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Birdnest

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Cora

In sixth grade, I built a bird nest box at school. I wasn’t particularly keen on that – “Build a nest box” simply happened to be the only non-sport after-school activity that was available. But even though I wasn’t particularly … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurs, Bestsellers and Nebula Awards

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Cora

First of all, Outlaw Love is a top three e-book bestseller and a top ten book (i.e. print and e-book combined) bestseller in the western category at Amazon Germany. For more, read this post at the Pegasus Pulp blog. Because … Continue reading →

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A Rather Romance-Heavy Linkdump

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Cora

I had a dreadful day at school today with some of my fifth-graders acting up so badly that I had to get the headmaster involved. The class was always okay before, but we got new students and two of them … Continue reading →

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