thank you Aly:-)

hey hi how've you been??

Hi, nice to meet you. I like Lilly Allen too but my favorite singer is Leona Lewis, she's also from the UK. You are so lucky to go see Lily Allen in concert!! gr!! ha ha I love that song "smile" by her, even though it's a bit old.

thanks for the add.
sorry i have not been seen much on here lately.
i shall try to amend my ways and make an appearance more often.

No, I've never seen that movie, but I think I've heard its title before.
I once tried to play a song by the Beatles on guitar... it was "Here Comes The Sun". It's my favourite of their songs and I tried to learn the intro. It actually sounded alright... but I guess I could improve it a bit or learn the whole song.
Well, I don't really care if artists do covers as long as they sound alright or even better than the original. But some songs just shouldn't be covered, because nothing could ever be better than the original song.
There's one song that I like better as cover. That is "Wicked Game" originally by Chris Isaak and covered by Stone Sour. I totally love it :D

hey! :) going alright! what about u? :)
well sometimes in the winter its really cold like -20 :s
yeah we speak finnish and someone speaks swedish cause finland is bilingual lol

we were attending the worlds universities debating championship tournament. that's what i do, i teach and coach debating in the california state university system, and teach public speaking too along with some other communication classes.

my job is good fun and i love the travelling. i also think that i do a lot of good for students, helping them to be more confident and think more critically. i feel like the next stage in my career will be moving to china to teach there for a bit. i'm very enamoured of that particular country, for many reasons.

best wishes on your continuing academic successes!!

hey ! Thanks for leaving comment :)
oh, and don't care about being late comment I'm ok !
I'll go to college in Mar and maybe i'll study business administration
how about you?
Oh and i also love to snail mail with you :D

heeey, dont be jealous ;)
i visited three festivals .. and all these bands i have seen played there ;)
wow.. the best shows have the german bands "die ärzte" and "die toten hosen" .. they are unbelievible good =)) soo funny and .. just great ;)) but i guess u have to understand german to agree ;)
xD

and my fav live band is muse =)) do you know them? they kick asses live =)) i have never seen a great band like them ;)
buut.. of course.. opeth and metallica and others are great too ;)

(before i go to a festivals.. i always look at youtube or stuff if the band i wanted to see can play live good or not.. if not.. i wont see them ;) xD)

actually i feel much better now
just returning to my familiar home air has made a huge difference.

all in all it was a satisfying trip.
my students did as well as we had hoped in the competition,
that is -- they did not win any awards, but they met their goals
as far as their speaking results at the tournament.

now we'll have two tournaments on the east coast coming up,
one at cornell university and the other at university of vermont. that takes up our time from now until the middle of april.

how was your holiday break, friend?