Piglet's House

This is my first blog, and the idea is that it will be the basis for doing class blogs with the students next year. Hopefully I will try this out on myself and then when I start doing it with the students,I will not be a totally ignorant newbie! Anyway here goes, wish me luck.

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Location: Jerusalem,, Israel

Originally from London, England I teach high school English in Jerusalem, and dream about traveling all over the world.Have managed to realize some of this dream,but I still want more!

Monday, June 2, 2008

Widgets


Trying to figure out all this widget stuff.Not sure I get it.Seems to me a little bit like the twitter thing.I can handle it now when I am not working,but how do people have time for all this stuff when they have to work?? beats me...

Jerusalem Day


Yom Yerushalaim- what does that mean to me? Hmmm.... Well I have looked at a lot of other blogs ,and I can see mine looks pretty lame. I don't have any cool pictures or videos on mine. So today I shall try and rectify that. I am still not sure why I am doing this or who is likely to read it ever (including me??) but anyway I will give it a try. So with the historic date in mind here goes.
If you google search for Jerusalem, you always find pictures with the Temple Mount slap bang in the middle. But that is not MY Jerusalem.I have memories of the city as it once was, cosmopolitan, fun, full of life,not as it is becoming, poor,dirty and neglected.And the more I think of leaving the more it makes me angry- why should I have to leave the city to the Haredim and the Arabs??That's a rhetorical question, guys.






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Saturday, May 31, 2008



Just messing around with different tools now to learn how to modify my posts. There seem to be lots of different tools around, including google docs (try it later) , and something called odiogo recommended to me by David from EFL web2.0, which he says enables you to try text to speech in your blog. I will try that later, as soon we are going to eat, and then go to a movie!