I can barely conceal my overwhelming enthusiasm for the IOC's decision to award the city I live in, management of the 2012 Olympic Games. I'm not going to harp on about why I'm so against the decision, suffice to point you to the blog I posted back in June. So now I have to spend the next seven years listening to endless debates and counter-debates as to how prepared/unprepared this city is and whether anything at all will change. It makes you almost wish you were listening to some gossip about the Royal Family instead (I said almost ). One positive outcome is that we beat the French (once again) and if I think about it from that angle, I can come to the conclusion that hosting the games not be such a bad thing after all. Guess what....I'm already beginning to feel better!
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I spent almost two hours last week talking with one of my students who's been charged with grand theft auto and possession with intent (crack cocaine) for the second time.
How a 12 year old kid can have been arrested for such things, I cannot explain. How he admitted the facts above and many others...I don't understand either.
May a soothing peace and sense of comfort and community envelope you and your students very soon.