Great news I just uncovered!

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They’re turning The Book Thief into a movie!!

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The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013. And I can’t believe I just found this out!?

I received Markus Zusak’s unforgettable story for my birthday when I turned 21 and it is still my favourite and most recommended book. It’s about the magic of words; about the ability of books to feed the soul.

Narrated by Death, it tells of a young girl taken in by the Hubermanns in Nazi-Germany and her discovery of the power of books and words and the stories hidden within them. According to the people behind the production it’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”
― Death, The Book Thief

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 A still from the movie. Geoffrey Rush portraying Hans Hubermann and Sophie Nélisse the book thief herself, Liesl.

 

I know the movie is never as good as the book, but I sure hope they get this one right…

 

What size shoe was that?!?

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Being a teacher is tough: maintaining some sense of discipline and trying to fill, at times, unwilling heads with knowledge.

My approach has always been to add humour to my lessons. A few weeks ago I discussed a very simple poem about a boy’s first day at a new school. In the poem there was a line where a shoe was hurled past the new boy and this sparked an idea to tell of an event that occurred earlier this year:

I took my one class outside for a physical education lesson. The learners were sitting on the stands while I explained the rules of the game they were about to play. In the corner of my eye a saw a mysterious black object hurtling towards me. I moved out of the way, but unfortunately for one boy sitting beside me, he did not…

The object in question, a size 11 thick-soled school shoe, had been accidentally flung off a foot and hit the poor boy solidly in the face – right on the eyebrow. My first thought: Oh, shit!! The kid’s going to cry! Maybe even shout profanities at the poor sod who kicked off his shoe…

But, what he said next was so witty and unexpected that I still remember it today:

 

“WHAT SIZE SHOE WAS THAT?!?”

 

- Just thought I’d share (“,)

Verbal purging

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There are many times that  inspiration latches itself to your creative mind – usually at the most inconvenient times – at two in the morning after awaking from a disturbing dream or when you are trying to describe your MS to another. You feel that need, or urge to put pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard.

But then there are these lovely, though infrequent moments when you have an afternoon off, but your brain is like a sieve that doesn’t want any part of it AT ALL. So what does one do then?  I’ve heard it’s best to just write. To let it all out – almost in the same vein as when you have an upset stomach and you are nauseous and feel like vom—… I’m sure you get the idea.

Verbal purging? Too graphic?

So this is my verbal purging.

It might be all over the place, with some small well-chewed bits and other more glunky, chunky parts I need to work on. It’s a mess, well my head’s a mess.

So the reason for this post? Just a way for me to unload, to unclunk and unwind. (We’ve been doing prefixes in class today, hence the overuse of un-, my apologies). The second? I’m paying for this site of mine and I’m going to start using it more often :p

Cheers!