Wordless Wednesday

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CLV Meets Bollywood

Every year Concordia Language Villages celebrates International Day; the highlight of the day is everyone dancing to the I-Day song. This year the song was “Mauja Hi Mauja” from “Jab We Met.” Two of my favorite things, together! Life just can’t get any better. (Well, I guess it would be better if I was still [...]

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MLA MIA 2008

I will be at the MLA conference today, and I’m not sure if the hotel has free wifi available for attendees–I refuse to pay $9.99 for a day pass–so here’s some filler for NaBloPoMo purposes. I’ll write something real on Thursday. Maybe there will even be pictures! floating lush’s Dewey Decimal Section: 404 Special topics [...]

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Ha ha ha!!

Found while trolling through the 23 Things site. I need to share this with my friends from Waldsee.

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Clarification

So in the previous post I linked to the “Numa Numa” kid, with a cryptic reference to Waldsee. Here’s the explanation: Every year at Concordia Language Villages, they pick a song to play at International Day, and create a dance to go along with it. We all learn the dance over the course of a [...]

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Oh dear…

I was in the kitchen, eating dinner, and Mr. Lush was downstairs watching TV; Countdown with Keith Olberman, I think. I heard the sting for this and came running downstairs shouting “Dramatic prairie dog! Dramatic prairie dog!” Mr. Lush just looked at me, and asked how on earth I knew what had just been on [...]

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Waldsee and Ducky

Look what I made!! Thanks DOA, for pointing out this nifty tool! (I hope you eventually got your video to load.) I wish I could use my own music, rather than the very few tracks they have loaded–I had the *perfect* song picked that was a favorite at camp. Oh well. Maybe I can figure [...]

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Dear Parents: Please Relax, It’s Just Camp

As a former camp counselor, I am appalled by this article, which I got to through this op-ed piece. I also recognize many of the behaviors exhibited by parents. The liaisons are emblematic of what sleep-away camp experts say is an increasing emphasis on catering to increasingly high-maintenance parents, including those who make unsolicited bunk [...]

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18. YouTube

As is evidenced by the fact that I’ve embedded videos already in this blog, I am quite conversant with YouTube. So here’s some more videos I like: Mr Bean at the LibraryWho doesn’t love Mr Bean? Death Star Canteen–LEGO versionAnd along those same lines, who doesn’t love Eddie Izzard, especially when reinterpreted in LEGO? (I [...]

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8. Share

This is a series of pictures I took of Waldsee, which is part of Concordia Language Villages. I worked there for eight summers, and I am very proud of that. If you know any young people ages 7-18 who are interested in learning another language, I cannot recommend these programs highly enough; some languages have [...]

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