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annje unabashed annje unabashed now from a different hemisphere pages home about me saturday december 3 2011 the wisdom of dr seuss i keep wanting to update and then it seems overwhelming there is so much to catch up on and so little time it seems on october 29th we completed our first entire year here can it really be a year looking at the year in retrospect can t really be done today i have spent all week with a late spring flu horrible body pains on monday and tuesday fever and chills and profuse sweating during two nights then a cough that has kept we awake all frickin night for 3 nights in a row and the cherry on top was waking up this morning with pink eye awesome there is no other word for it i also seem to be writhing in some kind of should i say it mild depression there i said it no worries though everything is under control ok that is not entirely true but i ll be fine i think i was reading oh the places you ll go last night to the kids and a few stanzas stood out and when you re in a slump you re not in for much fun un slumping yourself is not easily done and then i m afraid that some times you ll play lonely games too games you can t win cause you ll play against you and i think i got a little teary eyed that dr seuss was one wise dude speaking of the kids they have adapted great after their year in kindergarten and pre pre school immersed in spanish they speak almost like little natives it has been amazing to see how they went from speaking a few isolated words to speaking in full sentences telling stories they don t speak perfectly and sometimes they get genders wrong or i ll hear yo me gusta which is not grammatically correct in spanish but it is somewhat consistent with english like structure so interesting now the kids even play with each other in spanish and do some of their solitary play talk in spanish which is fascinating we still speak english with them at home though they both still struggle a little with saludos here in chile like in many latin american countries you greet and say your farewell with the cheek to cheek kiss they do ok sometimes but others they just can t be bothered especially when saying good bye which they are normally not happy about they don t want to kiss anyone i can relate though so i don t push it but it is interesting to think about how social norms just like language have to be acquired it has been great to see how they have developed bonds with family here g has a cousin her age they have such different personalities that it took a little time i think to learn how to negotiate that relationship and since families spend a lot of time together they were forced in some ways to deal with each other but now it is so cool to see how they resolve conflict and how they join forces against outside threats nico is it a stage is it the age is it because he is a boy dealing with him has been slightly complicated at times he is so whiny and so needy he is somewhat sullen he is stubborn he is defiant i am afraid to report i often have less than sufficient reserves of patience to do something as simple seemingly as brushing teeth but he still looks just as edible when he is sleeping quietly posted by annje 6 comments friday september 30 2011 this little llama takes after her mama her favorite sandwich is tomato lettuce and avocado and in a certain order she is my kid for sure posted by annje 6 comments friday september 16 2011 happy 18th chile september 18th is the date when chile celebrates its independence they celebrate la chilenidad chilean ness all week las fiestas patrias it is the favorite holiday of many chileans it means a long weekend we are going here fondas where you drink chicha a sweet grape based licquor and dance the cueca the traditional dance of chile check out margaret s photos from last year lots of empanadas see emily s photos here bbq here are my little kidlets in traditional garb for their pre school independence day celebration dancing traditional chilean dances felices fiestas patrias have a long lovely safe food filled weekend posted by annje 4 comments tuesday september 13 2011 lady marmalade i am finally finding time to cook a little again for fun i took a few pounds of these and reduced them and added some more stuff white sugar brown sugar balsamic vinegar red wine and a few sprigs of thyme and ended up with this onion marmalade quite delish i used this recipe here but used butter olive oil instead of bacon grease posted by annje 4 comments friday september 9 2011 just another english teacher most gringas and gringos who live or have lived in chile have at some point taught english my first job in santiago 15 years ago good lord was teaching english i have also taught spanish since then if you remember the how we met story you know i met my husband teaching english some do it because it is a good way of living abroad for a few years some do it because they found the love of their lives who happens to be chilean and now they live here and whatever they studied has been rendered useless either because there are certain areas of study take law for example that don t travel well or because they are limited by a language they don t know spanish some actually like teaching english but there are many who would rather do something else anything else i have lost count of the number of times i have heard a gringa say i don t want to teach english i want a real job many gringas are also irritated beyond belief at the unfounded assumption that they are english teachers in terms of annoyingness it chalks up there with the unfounded assumption that all gringas are easy we are not all easy and we are not by the mere nature of our gringa ness all english teachers so it is funny in this context of opposition and the with the discourse of desiring a real occupation to be a gringa who works in the english teaching industry it is not just because i am a native speaker though that makes me more marketable here in some ways though it is slightly illogical in other ways because just being a native speaker in no way makes someone a better teacher i am a language related teacher because i love it it is one of those unexplicable passions i love language i love how languages work i love the random similarities and the baffling differences i love talking about universal grammar and the critical period and minimal pairs my doctorate degree is in language education teaching about language is what i do it is what i have chosen to do i am actually not an english teacher per se i am an english teacher teacher i prepare future english teachers i try to help them step out of the box that they were taught in a fill in the blank worksheet is not an activity and how are you going to activate their previous knowledge i teach theories of second language acquisition and methodology courses but i can understand the irritation piqued by that unfounded assumption that if you are a gringa you teach english i get it recently a woman i know told me that her adult son had asked her to ask me if i would give him english lessons i sweetly because she is sweet said i wish i could i just don t have time and i silently whine i have a 44 hour contract i am expected to research and publish i leave home at 7 30 am because i live far i get home some nights after 8 00 because i live far i love what i do but i have two kids and a husband that i want to see and not enough time to read or run or watch movies and you are asking me to spend my precious free time giving english lessons when i meet people in the hall or bathroom at the university where i work and they ask what department i am in and i say education and they say nodding knowlingly assumingly oh you teach english there is a little twitch in my brain and i politely say i teach language pedagogy and i silently hiss to myself and i have a ph d in the field but i don t say it out loud because i don t have to prove my worth to anyone and i am actually mostly uncomfortable talking about my ph d despite having mentioned it like 15 times in this post but you guys already know i have friends who when we made public our plan to return to chile asked are you going to teach at the institute again i reply politely no i think i ll find a university job and i silently sarcastically hiss to myself dude i just spent years finishing my doctorate degree so i could totally go back to what i was doing 10years ago but i don t say it out loud because i don t have to justify myself to anyone it is an odd space feeling perfectly happy with my very real job feeling like i don t have to justify what i do or why but not wanting to be put in the gringa english teacher box that the other gringas complain about either ya know posted by annje 8 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2011 18 december 1 the wisdom of dr seuss september 4 august 3 july 5 march 1 february 2 january 2 2010 73 november 4 october 4 september 5 august 4 july 6 june 6 may 9 april 6 march 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