Category Archives: “Kind of” Recommendations

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January 28th, 2024

Hello there, everybody, 
This school year (2023-2024) is really difficult for me at the moment. There are so many new responsibilities that I’ve been encouraged to take on, that I’m now realizing I was never really going to be able to take on, on top of just lesson planning and teaching, but it’s also the year that we went on strike. 

Seeing as I’m scheduling this in the same year (2024), I am hoping that we did get some good things from the strike and that it is not going to have been for nothing? But… anyways, let’s move on to my recommendation for you today: 

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Professional Portfolio(?): AQUOPS

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April 4th, 2023

Hello there, everybody,
How are you on this beautiful day of April in 2023? Today, I am NOT at work, as I am supposed to. Well, I took 3 days “off” to attend to a conference called AQUOPS. Let me tell you so many things about it today.

Let me tell you about it all:

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Abbott Elementary S01

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March 27th-31st, 2022

Hello everybody, 
I hope this post finds you in a good mood.

— You can skip this Aside —

As you can see from this time stamp, this is my first writing in A WHILE. This is mostly because I have somehow gotten an actual contract as an ESL teacher, which is great, even though it brings me anxiety like never before… 

Since before August 2021, I don’t sleep that well, and on top of that, I have a secondary job, which is equally as time consuming. This means that I have not had as much time to take care of this blog as I would have wanted. You know what it also means though, I might be able to be much better at this during the summer. 

— End of Aside — 

I think that’s enough of me moping around about how stressed out I am, let’s move on to the actual post! 

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Book Centre

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November 6th, 2020 

Good morning, everybody!
How are you doing? I trust this post finds you in good spirits and health! If not, I’m rooting for you all. Everything is gonna be all right (I hope)! Hang in there!

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Chalk.n.Coffee

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November 6th, 2020 

Hello there,
Once again, how is everybody? By the time this post is “posted” on this blog, I really hope that this whole situation (pandemic, covid-19) will be over, and that you and your loved ones are okay! I hope that we are all being more careful and working towards an always safer environment.

On another note, I was wondering if you were interested in more podcasts, ever since I published the last podcast recommendation…

…because I come to you with more!

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TESL 351: History of the English Language

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January 7th, 2020 

Good morning, everybody,
How is it going? We have only just begun the year 2020 and I’m already looking towards 2021 (when I should be done with my program and maybe I can finally have my teaching license and my teaching diploma!)!

Anyways, it is the first week of classes, and already, I am overwhelmed by the amount of work for each classes this semester: TESL427, TESL351 and TESL415 (and then, eventually, TESL467). As this is my first post from this “era” of my academic career, I wanted to share with you a couple of “anecdotes” and a few recommendations that I haven’t done yet.

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The Marie-Victorin School Board

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January 24th, 2020 

Hello everybody,
How are you doing? I’m doing well, even though next week, I will have my first midterm.  By the time that you’ll read this… I will be starting or have already started my internship semester. But everything is okay… this may seem strange to suddenly see a post from January 2020, but I’m bumping this post from other scheduled posts, because… it feels pretty important for you to know?

Last year, I scheduled a post about working in the area of Montreal, and now that I’ve gone through a little bit more, I just wanted to keep you all up to date with the process with the Commission Scolaire Marie-Victorin, because if someone with my experience now had been close to me and telling me about these things a few days ago, I feel like they would have reassured me.

Disclaimer: Before you start reading, I want you to know that this is just my personal experience with the whole process, and it may not happen to you specifically.

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March 24th, 2020

Hello there everybody!
How’s it going? As you can see from the timestamp here, I’ve scheduled this for awhile now, and I really hope that by the time this post reaches your eyes, you will either already have known about it and have signed up, or you will not need it anymore (over here, the government has closed schools (from elementary schools to universities) until May 1rst as of the writing of this, and they even said that they might close until next school year as well…). But just in case neither of those happened, by May 21rst, I just wanted to share this website with you:

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