Not Much News (5/14/2006)

Here it is Mother's Day, and several weeks with out a report and I still don't have much news.

I guess I did go to church today, but I confess I did have ulterior motives. One, I wanted to meet some of the people that go to the church and two, there was a delicious potluck after the church. At church there was a lot of singing and then some weird thing with corn. This was an English service so I understood all of the words but not being very religious I don't know how common it is to have a fake harvest of corn gathered and divided into ten piles. Obviously it doesn't happen every Sunday but does it always happen the second Sunday in May? Sijui.

Also tests are about graded and the students did marginally better but at least there was significantly less cheating. Maybe it was the two different exams, but it is a lot more work to create and grade two exams than a single exam I am debating whether to go double or not next time.

I have spent the last two weeks teaching students things like how to evaluate an expression (put numbers into an equation and get the right answer). And how to use log tables including how to write the number in scientific notation (8000 = 8x1000= 8x10^3).

Finally I did buy a bunch of bananas. I may try to make my own brew, but mainly I plan on eating them. When I say bunch I mean like 20 lbs including the branch. The lot cost about a dollar and were fun to carry back on my head but the lady I bought them from was carrying two on her head.
I think that's all,
T.