I survived!

There are sometimes that I am happy to live in Canada and today was one of them. For all that we Canadians complain about our healthcare system, I was happy to have it today when I went in for my nasal surgery. We have clean, well-stocked hospitals staffed by professional and competent people. And it's free!

I had to be at the hospital by 7:20 and I was on my way home by 4 PM! Almost everything is done in day surgery these days. It's amazing. My Mom says that soon they'll have drive-through windows like Tim Hortons! Well, I doubt that but I see her point.

So I finally got home, had something to eat and a nap and now I feel much better. My nose is still bleeding a little but, hopefully, my problem will be fixed and I won't get a terrible sinus infection everytime I get a cold or the flu . Having to take antibiotics too often is not a good thing.

I'm glad to read your comments and it's good to hear that you will join the blog group - but I don't see anything on your blogs! I'll check again tomorrow!

Hello out there! I wonder who will join in the Blog Buddies group! Happy Easter to everyone. My Mom arrived from Victoria on Thursday night. It's really great to have her here. When she comes to visit or when we go to Victoria, we always play our traditional family game. We call it "marbles" and play it on a wooden board that my grandfather made back in the 1960s. The same type of game is sold in stores and is called "Aggravation". Anyway, I always have the blue marbles and my mother has the yellow marbles. My son, David has the green marbles because he is the most like my grandmother (who always played with green). My daughter plays with the red marbles because she is the most like my grandfather who always played with red. We roll the dice and chase each other around the board trying to get all our marbles "home" first. Of course, we try to roll the right numbers and take everyone else off the board and send their marbles "home". It's a lot of fun. We count up the numbers we need to roll and blow on the dice for good luck. Then if we actually get the numbers we need to take somebody else's marble off, we all laugh hillariously.

The other thing we like to do is eat, of course. We're planning Easter dinner and yesterday we went shopping at Superstore for all the ingredients. We're going to have roast turkey with sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, and asparagus. For desert, I'm making a chocolate layer cake with fudge frosting. Oh! So good!

So what is everybody else doing? Just relaxing? Don't forget to keep reading. I found a great book at the university bookstore on Thursday. It's called "Why Children Fail" and it's really interesting. I would say that they reason for failure in children are probably much the same for our EAP students so it's a good book for me to read.

Class A Portfolio Presentation Schedule

Monday: Room 630 EdT

I'm looking forward to seeing all the proof of how far you've come in English this term!

12:00 Saad
:10 Salia
:20 Katya
:30 Jamie
:40 Choi
:50 Said

Tuesday: Room 630 EdT

2:30 Amy
:40 Allen
:50 Cody
3:00 Pei-Chen
3:10 Viola
3:20 Betsy
3:30 Caleb
3:40 Jay
3:50 Sida
4:00 Arghavan
4:10 Cecilia
4:20 Ormarys
4:30 Tom

CC Portfolio Presentations

Hi, Class A! I wonder how many of you will visit my blog and leave comments for me. I'll look forwward to what you have to say. I know that you have a busy weekend, though, and not much time. I'm so sorry to say that when I left my office at 5:45 PM on Friday, I left your presentation schedule on my desk! Oh, my, how silly I am. However, I'm sure those who volunteered for a Monday presentation will know who they are and will be prepared. I will post the schedule here on this blog when I get to my office at 8 AM on Monday morning. I PROMISE! It will be the first thing I do. Have you read Patrick's blog? Isn't it great?