Too Easy

After months of trying to arrange interviews and trainings, I am finally going to be starting my ESL tutoring with political refugees at Seattle Central. I am soooooo excited. I love teaching English. I could do it my whole life, and just might. I was so excited about it tonight that I was looking at all the training classes Seattle Central is sending me to and all the future classes I'll have the options of attending. I was also looking at the ESL website Seattle Central designed for their students. It has a bunch of links to English practice and little games and whatnot. There is even a section of things the students themselves have written and done.

I clicked on the link that was supposed to take me to "English jokes." My screen flashed that whole "Address Not Found" deal. I checked the address that the link was connected to. Yep. They spelled English wrong.

Engish. Ha!

Also an amazing quote that I read yesterday in one of the Wave Fall 2009 manuscripts, "Happiness is for sissies."

Something that Makes Me Happy: Yodeling!

My New Years' Resolution is to be more optimistic, glass half-full nonsense. Part of this is to take care to write down and remind myself of all the things in this world that make me happy. Today at work, one of my regular customers, Peggy, was talking to me and Nicole about her childhood obsession with both punk rock and yodeling. After listening to her gush about yodeling for so long, I realized she's right. It is an amazing talent. It uses two distinct aspects of the human vocal chord and a system of echoes to create an almost unearthly noise. So I came home and looked up videos, eventually finding this gem:



I really and truly admire people like Kerry Christensen. Yodeling isn't that cool, and it is by no means popular anywhere really in America. For the first two minutest of this video, I was waiting for it to reveal itself as a SNL sketch, but it is this man's life, and he does it well. He perseveres in his knee high socks and laderhosen with held and larynx held high. It really is an astounding talent though. Really and truly. His jokes make me cringe, but my jaw is on the floor in amazement.