Postcard haul du...yesterday. I don't know how to say yesterday in French.

Okay, I actually forget how many postcards I got yesterday, and now they're mixed in with everything else. At least three from Ohio, one from California, one from Auckland, one from Munich, one from Florida, a couple from London, a couple from Mississippi, a couple from Maryland. I think that's it.

So far, I've had postcards from 6 countries:
the US
Canada
the UK
New Zealand
Australia
Germany

All in all, I now have 41 cards.

Teaching with the cards has proven to be harder than I thought...I overestimated my younger kids' English skillz, and am going to use them more with the 7th and 8th graders. Some are too tough even for those kids and I will hang on to them until I have my elective class for the high school students in swing. The younger kids do like the pictures, though, and it will be great when I have them all up on the wall.

If you want to send a postcard, here are the rules:

1. Please write in English.
2. Make it fairly simple English, okay?
3. Please PRINT (no cursive) and write NEATLY. Bulgarian is written in Cyrillic, so the kids aren't just learning a new language, they're learning a new alphabet.
4. Please use a postcard that actually has a picture of your town, area, whatever.
5. If English isn't the main language of your area, perhaps you could mention how and when you do use it, and how it comes in handy. If you yourself learned English in school, it would be GREAT to mention that.

Email me at nodforno@gmail.com for the address.

As for general school stuff...I'll get back to you later. I gotta run to class right now. 7th graders...joy!