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  1. Sasha Distan
    They say it's the legal wording and they won't change it for love, money or threats. we are writing our own vows though!
  2. Sasha Distan
    Chapter 17....I faded to black. I have never faded to black in my life. what is wrong with me?!?! Damn that Teen rating. Never mind, I like a challenge.
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    on the home screen all the read was "After four long days of non-sleep you are" and i had quite a good start for that until i read the rest of the entry. dang it!
  4. Sasha Distan
    I punched the air as I crossed the finish line, six lengths ahead of the nearest runner, a guy who attended the other major school in town. I jogged ahead a little, curved off to where I could see our coach, my parents and the rest of the school’s supporters cheering. I won, and I won well, five miles of cross country through fields and woodland and I came in a safe first. Coach was ecstatic, clapped me around the shoulders before anyone else and told me how proud he was. After that it was all
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    Just had a fight with our registrar about this. Legal wording the in UK still says that at my own fucking wedding i have to hear the words "marriage is an agreement between one man and one woman" Anyone knows me well knows i am Chaotic Gender Neutral. I don't really want to have either of those labels. not on MY own bloody wedding day. Also, I showed this photo to several of the kids at school, who all went "awwwww!"
  6. Sasha Distan
    Well maybe....most people don't know what a singularity is though
  7. Sasha Distan
    I read that article, they had a copy in the TES (teachers newspaper) over here. the kids are great at 5 minutes tasks and awful at coursework generally because by the time they get to 14 they have never been asked to concentrate on one subject for more than like a week and we make them focus on one (quite complex) thing for like 6 months. a lot of them really can't cope well. Modern teaching exploits this whole "pace" thing but it really lets the kids down when they move on to HE and work because they get bored really easily.
  8. Sasha Distan
    What I am saying is, using ipads or not isn't going to change how well children learn. All it will do is possibly reduce the amount of paper in the classroom. Good teachers teach well regardless of the tools involved. Most studies agree that the fewer children per teacher, the better their education is. this is true in private schools where children have access to all sorts of technology in the educational lives. the answer is more better trained and motivated teachers and not keeping bad, lazy teachers on payroll just because they have tenure. also, Lugh, your 5 year old is one smart kid, well done. But he will be the exception to the rule unfortunately.
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    sorry hun, you get one every day though, I promise!I'll let you know when i finish writing it. xxx
  10. Sasha Distan
    Zupan was a dick long before he got stuck in that chair.Also, Issac is an only child...my cloning machine is broken
  11. Sasha Distan
    Oh darling.... Zupan is such a fun character to write. he has some pretty important scenes.
  12. Sasha Distan
    yeah, absolutely. Singularity Sky sounds like a great indie movie. go for it.
  13. Sasha Distan
    the three years between an 18 year old and a 15 year old are massively important. one is a child, one can vote, drink, drive and join the army. my point stands.
  14. Sasha Distan
    you only have to wait 24 hours. patience is a virtue my dear
  15. Sasha Distan
    Spend a year teaching ICT and computing to secondary school kids. I have all the credible experience you could need. Ask them to find stuff on Tumblr, not a problem. Ask then to research three different ways they can develop a recipe and you get a lot of kids typing "three ways to develop sacher torte" into google and getting no usable results.
  16. Sasha Distan
    "Country Sunsets" might be a nice little indie film, something romantic and rural (think, what's eating gilbert grape) Also, I really like the idea of "Noakes" as a BBC crime drama
  17. Sasha Distan
    I was talking to my esteemed friend about this today. Hopefully CERN is going to give us a bit more detail about what Gravitons actually are and we can see if super string theory and M-Theory are correct in any way (the idea that between 12 and 15 other dimensions are wrapped up and hidden within the particles of this universe)
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    short and to the point: an ipad cannot teach a child. no piece of technology can take the place of actual learning in a classroom. Yes there are a minority of very bright students who can work independently on these things, learn and absorb information. They are a tiny minority. Thousands of years of teaching and learning have shown us that children do not learn by themselves, every skill must be taught and shown (granted with very few exceptions) and while as adults we can learn and grasp new skills quickly and find the relative resources on help us online, children can not. they are developing, things take them longer, and autonomous teaching is one of the worst ideas i have even heard. I teach 11 to 16 year olds.
  19. Sasha Distan
    I will think on it babe. x
  20. Sasha Distan
    Hmmm....i don't know if there's one thing all my characters do a lot. apart from the good sex. Kurt barks and shakes a lot, but he is a werewolf. If i have any weird prose, i hope someone lets me know.
  21. Sasha Distan
    and i would say i have a nice streak on the side of my sadism....
  22. Sasha Distan
    Well, there is a real honest to goodness company called Cyberdyne Systems, and there's a Skynet. It's only a matter of time... But seriously? who names their company after a fictional company which creates robots that destroy humanity? that's just asking for it in my opinion.
  23. Sasha Distan
    Thorn speaks with wisdom. give him time and be his friend. you might be the only 'out' friend he has. i sort of doubt that you guys will get to be cutsy in love, but that may not be a bad thing. it's nice to have a friend keep your options open bub, don't pass up the right guy when he comes your way.
  24. Sasha Distan
    i am the proud owner of an entire freezer full of cake calamari tonight, must make batter.
  25. Sasha Distan
    you are so impatient *pets Vv*
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