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“Writer” I’m a “writer”. In other words (remember those?), I used to write. Undergrad major. Worked on some publications. Got a few awards. Then life got between us, didn’t it forgotten scribe? An unplanned pregnancy. A dozen moves. Half as many jobs. Another few degrees – the kind you mindlessly munch on, like bar pretzels. [...]

Lady luck was not playing on my team, and as a risky Poker player I was out of the Poker tournament at the English Room, and my ear pricked up at someone exclaiming: “you should try to make the effort to learn their language, it is like just nice” Sometimes you overhear someone expressing something [...]

Feedback through a fresh set of eyes. The bane of creativity is often the evaluation or editing process. An artist is stuck between never thinking his work is done, and suffering from an over critical outlook, not knowing when to down his tools. In my experience the creative process needs breathing space, some time to [...]

Came across this phrase for the first time in German, directly translated to: “potty pisser” maybe. Often guys may have the attitude that some one who does not piss standing up is a bit of a softy. However we do not really have a phrase that is directly comparable to the German one. But got [...]

To give is our greatest gift, and can be the source of a feeling of a sense of reward. We may do it for various reasons: to recognise a friendship to honour our family to show generosity to celebrate an anniversary The process often for me falls between a commission, and self expression. Art remains [...]

Stew answered to any enquiry from his ex-student as to if the film “This is England” really was a true depiction. This lead me to the series follow up “This is England ´86. I hadnie watched someat from the UK non stop in ages, but over three days while I was ill with manflu this [...]

If you add creativity to the learning process it increases the I in interest. The following tasks are twofold beneficial, namely it helps gather the interests of the learners and therefore adds some glue to their bonding, as well as providing a source for a portfolio memento. 1/ “DisLike” task (possible for learners) get  a [...]

increase the passion This year has seen a climb to a peak in my opportunities to write regularly. Since stepping into the waters of English and Business Skills training my avenues and therefore my opportunities to write regularly had dried up. However with So Social being founded in 2008, and the opportunity to make contributions [...]

I was thinking of the German approach to learning English. The 90s generation in Germany grew up with an omnipresence of English. Even if some of them don’t speak perfect British English every teen has at least a higher sensibility for this language than their parents have. Observing media, advertisements, marketing campaigns, movies or music [...]

We are well into the swing of things with the new footie season in England. Already we have had the first gossip concerning the off field antics of Rooney during the pregnancy of his girlfriend. Not a good idea to play away from home at the best of times. But he is more in the [...]