I'm posting pictures for my mom. That's what this website is for, I guess.

This is one of the four Sallys I have in my pre-school classes. This one can already read though, so when the Moms were watching my class today, I leaned on her heavily to suggest that ALL the kids are this smart due to my teaching skills.


Jocelyn is cute. She frowns upon amateur attempts to be cute -- like that on the right.


The Platypus always looked a little like Trotsky to me.


These are the two I'd keep if it were allowed under my visa.


Benedicto, as in Benedicto Mussolini.


Another of the Sallys (Sallies?).

Born to be cute, I suppose... At least for a year or two until the attitude and the entitlement set in! (But I should be back in Canada by then.... right?.... right?.....)

So that's why there are no boats...

I really like this river. I like that's it's empty and I like that there are a lot of bridges that go across it, but it took me over a year to figure out why there are absolutely no boats here (aside from the odd tour boat.)

A few books I've read in the past few months made me notice that the estuary of the Han River (I guess an estuary is the protected bay that usually acts as a natural port at the mouth of the river and the sea) is RIGHT ON THE NORTH/SOUTH KOREAN BORDER.... That said, it has fences and artillery and doubtless hundreds of land mines.

It took over a year to realize this because most maps don't really draw the north/south border here, or at least leave it a little vague when they can.... I blame the maps.