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Friday, June 11, 2010
The school is nearly approaching. That is why, there are lots of work that teachers will do in order to meet and cope with the various activities to be taken during the school year.
Aside from attending from school and managing the children, there are lots of paper works to do, from lesson planning, checking the class record to evaluating the classroom work. Frankly, I can do it alone and I need the help of my co-teachers and the help of the administration as well. For the betterment of the school and the need of every learner, one must attain to the system of dealing with things in a proper setting.
Labels: Personal
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Guest blog post from my buddy John Fox.
It’s great having a DVR around, and now that I look back on times when I didn’t have one, I really don’t know how I managed without it. I really can’t fathom not being able to actually pause live television to take a break from watching satelite TV. That’s really one of my favorite parts about owning a DVR. If I’ve happened to miss a part of a show that I really wanted to see or I have to leave the room, I can simply rewind live television back to where I left off.
I use my DVR with my satellite TV, and it works out nicely because I can record shows and watch them at a later time to my convenience. That’s probably my second favorite part about owning DVR. One of my favorite shows to record is Cake Boss, and because of my hectic work schedule, it would be impossible to watch it without a DVR.
Another feature I like about the DVR is being able to burn shows that I’ve recorded onto DVDs. I just recently purchased the DVD-R/RW combo kit so that I could burn the Cake Boss series onto DVDs so that I could keep them for myself. It’s really nice having that thing; I don’t know what I’d do without it!
Labels: General Business
Friday, June 4, 2010
Everyday is a time to learn and that is a fact. We are faced with all the pressures of the world from work, money, relationships, time, opportunities, school and other aspects. But there is no need to regret and take all the risk just for the sake of the second thought but a promise that there are lots of things that we should learn about life everyday.
But whatever the reasons are, there is always a time for everything - a time to learn.
Labels: Personal
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Here, some 300 miles (seldom less than three days' driving) after leaving the pavement in the north, south-bound drivers come to the first real interruption in desert harshness along the highway south of the inland turn at El Rosario. Under circumstances peculiar in the Western Hemisphere to a few regions of Baja California, date palms introduced by Jesuit colonists went wild and spread a shadowy green forest up and down the valley, wherever roots can reach water.
In San Ignacio, you can explore the massive stone church finished in 1786. No airline touches down here, but light planes can land at the short, rough, rocky strip bulldozed out of the cactus-covered lava east of town (buzz town for a taxi).
In San Ignacio, you can explore the massive stone church finished in 1786. No airline touches down here, but light planes can land at the short, rough, rocky strip bulldozed out of the cactus-covered lava east of town (buzz town for a taxi).
Labels: Personal
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The real meaning of life is the chance to thank life in its bliss, full of happiness and abundance.
I always give recognition for people who I encounter and make significant moment of my life. I made it clear to thank them in a way through a thank you cards because I believe that in their every presence, it connotes an effort and care of personal help and involvement.
I am very much happy to thank them especially when I am in the task of needing their help and they share what they can share as well.
In life, it doesn't need complications. Life is really that simple and in order to understand its mystery is to thank everything for their good cause.
It is such a must to thank anyone for whatever they do to us. It is in this way that we will be able to see the real essence of a happy living.
I always give recognition for people who I encounter and make significant moment of my life. I made it clear to thank them in a way through a thank you cards because I believe that in their every presence, it connotes an effort and care of personal help and involvement.
I am very much happy to thank them especially when I am in the task of needing their help and they share what they can share as well.
In life, it doesn't need complications. Life is really that simple and in order to understand its mystery is to thank everything for their good cause.
It is such a must to thank anyone for whatever they do to us. It is in this way that we will be able to see the real essence of a happy living.
Labels: General Business
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The city’s huge Sunday flea market is a grab bag of anything and everything you can think of: plastic, robots, clay masks, tacos. It has all sorts of items from all sorts of times and sources, and qualifies as one of the best in the world.
Labels: Personal
This city of 135,000 population is considerably larger than Zacatecas (32,000). It is a good place to buy drawn linen work and hand-embroidered cotton. Aguacalentes’ spring festival (dancing, fireworks, cock fighting, bull fighting) in honor of the city’s patron saint, San Marcos, begins in late April and continues for two weeks.
Labels: Personal
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Twenty-nine miles fousth of San Luis Potosi is the neat little town of Santa Maria del Rio on the banks of the peaceful Rio Santa Maria. This community is known throughout Mexico as the place where for generations the women have been weaving beautiful silken “Santa Maria rebozos” – highly prized by the ladies of Mexico. Recently the Mexican government became concerned that the art of weaving Santa Maria rebozos might die out as the older women of the town passed away, so a special school was established to teach young girls the art. Tourists are invited to visit the school, on the main plaza, rebozos and other handicraft made by the children may be purchased.
A few miles beyond Santa Maria del Rio is the Rancho Santo Domingo, where for three generations the Labastida family gas bred fighting bulls. These beautiful big black animals of Rancho Santo Domingo are in great demand by the largest bull rings of Mexico. Tourists are invited to visit the old hacienda and the rancho’s own little chapel. Senor Javier Labastida, the American-educated grandson of the founder, is sometimes on hand to act as guide.
Farther down the highway is the junction with Highway 110 to Dolores Hidalgo and Guanajuato. Near Dolores Hidalgo, Highway 49 branches south to San Miguel de Allende.
A few miles beyond Santa Maria del Rio is the Rancho Santo Domingo, where for three generations the Labastida family gas bred fighting bulls. These beautiful big black animals of Rancho Santo Domingo are in great demand by the largest bull rings of Mexico. Tourists are invited to visit the old hacienda and the rancho’s own little chapel. Senor Javier Labastida, the American-educated grandson of the founder, is sometimes on hand to act as guide.
Farther down the highway is the junction with Highway 110 to Dolores Hidalgo and Guanajuato. Near Dolores Hidalgo, Highway 49 branches south to San Miguel de Allende.
Labels: Personal
Monday, May 24, 2010
Leon is a flourishing industrial city (population 210,000). It is tidy and prosperous looking, and the stores are well stocked with goods. A beautiful wide boulevard runs the length of the city. The trees that line the plaza are clipped and green, and ther is about the town something of the bustle and aggressiveness of some of our mid-western farm and manufacturing cities – which in fact, it parallels from a Mexican standpoint. The production of leather products is the chief industry, and this is a good place to shop for leather goods.
A few miles south of Leon and then 6 miles east on a blacktop road is the popular health resort of Camanjilla with thermal spring waters piped into large swimming pools and also into the bathtubs of the guest rooms.
A few miles south of Leon and then 6 miles east on a blacktop road is the popular health resort of Camanjilla with thermal spring waters piped into large swimming pools and also into the bathtubs of the guest rooms.
Labels: Personal
About 48 miles off themain highway, Uruapan wears an air fo drowsy remoteness. The town is set in a green garden-like landscape, a lush mixture of pine, cedar, oak, ash, with banana, avocado, mango and other tropical plants and trees. Uruapan is sometimes called “the flower garden of Mexico”.
Lacquerware, especially trays and masks is produced in several small shps in Uruapan and in the surrounding territory. The best work has engraved designs an dis filed in with real lacquers. Guitars are made in Paracho, on the highway 15 miles south of the junction town of Carapan.
Uruapan’s pride is its beautiful park, Parque Nacional Licenciado Eduardo Ruiz. Tree-shaded paths lead along a cool, clear river and up to its headwaters – a series of bubbling springs. Local residents often bathe in Bano Azul, on eof the river’s pools.
For another purely relaxing excursion, ride about 6 miles of to Tzarraracua Falls. Its water gush from many points around a natural stone amphitheater and drop about 90 feet into a pool surrounded by tropical trees, plants and flowers. Rustic, circular rest houses on a trail to the pool make cool picnic spots.
There is no activity now at Paricutin, the volcano that sprang from a cornfield in 1943, but you can drive out to view the weird, blackened landscape. It is a 24-mile round trip via cinder-surfaced road.
Lacquerware, especially trays and masks is produced in several small shps in Uruapan and in the surrounding territory. The best work has engraved designs an dis filed in with real lacquers. Guitars are made in Paracho, on the highway 15 miles south of the junction town of Carapan.
Uruapan’s pride is its beautiful park, Parque Nacional Licenciado Eduardo Ruiz. Tree-shaded paths lead along a cool, clear river and up to its headwaters – a series of bubbling springs. Local residents often bathe in Bano Azul, on eof the river’s pools.
For another purely relaxing excursion, ride about 6 miles of to Tzarraracua Falls. Its water gush from many points around a natural stone amphitheater and drop about 90 feet into a pool surrounded by tropical trees, plants and flowers. Rustic, circular rest houses on a trail to the pool make cool picnic spots.
There is no activity now at Paricutin, the volcano that sprang from a cornfield in 1943, but you can drive out to view the weird, blackened landscape. It is a 24-mile round trip via cinder-surfaced road.
Labels: Personal
Friday, May 21, 2010
Tepic, an old colonial city with a solid, prosperous look, is the capital of the small state of Nayarit. The main streets are wide and clean, and other streets are being widened by cutting away old buildings and adding modern facades which contrast sharply with the old wallet cemetery and the arcaded buildings around the plaza. The promenades and the concerts in the attractive city park, and the soccer games in the stadium at the edge of the town are interesting to watch. Points of interest in the town include the cathedral on the main plaza, which was built in 1750 and has two perfect Gothic-type towers, and the Church de la Cruz which was once a part of the Franciscan Convent de la Cruz founded in 1744.
The broad valley south of Tepic is planted to sugarcane and corn. Small banana and papaya groves surround the settlements of native huts. The town is situated 3,186 feet above sea level, at the base of an extinct volcano, and is noticeably cooler than the nearly coast.
Tepic has good accommodations on the highway near Parque Loma, and also downtown.
The broad valley south of Tepic is planted to sugarcane and corn. Small banana and papaya groves surround the settlements of native huts. The town is situated 3,186 feet above sea level, at the base of an extinct volcano, and is noticeably cooler than the nearly coast.
Tepic has good accommodations on the highway near Parque Loma, and also downtown.
Labels: General Business
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