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You will never know how wonderful today for me !

In the morning, MAVERICKS won their first champin of NBA finals! How amazing it is !

Finally, their dream come true after more than 13 years! They deserve it becuase of their hard-work, perseverance! It is a absolutely exhilarating moment for all MARVERICKERS!

And, dirk, who is the leader of this team, also deserve the MVP! Let all the doubts from whatever go away! He deserve to be respected and admired! He is one of the greates basketball player i

Brad Patterson recently challenged teachers to interview members of their PLN. You remember what a PLN is, don't you? A PLN is a personal learning network. Here is a writing challenge that we did about PLN's. I wrote about a few people from mine. If you don't have a personal learning network, it's time to create one! 

I was interviewed by a member of my PLN a few weeks ago. I met Vladka at the IATEFL conference, but we already knew each other from twitter. Twitter is a great place for teachers t

It was tuesday, June 7, 2011, when I was back from my college and arrived in my boarding house. I entered my room and found a postcard lying in the floor. Oh wow, postcard from my friend in USA had arrived. I was so delight and then soon sent an email to him as a thankful saying.

Here the pictures of my postcard ^_^

The translate message :

Hello Ria!

This is the chapel I told you before (cadet chapel of US air force academy) . The inside is cool, right? It supposed can be placed by

is this the end...The end....??i hope not...

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tore your hope apart
As they turn your dreams to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my dreams with endl

Happens that precious gems are hidden not only in a post but also in the comments below it, and deep diggers  become rewarded with finding them.

Dear readers,

DEAR ( Drop Every thing And Read ) is a kind of program which can be used as improving the students reading ability especially for Junior High school students. I got this program in Burwood Girl High School in Sydney Australia when I visited that school in 2004. I saw DEAR program is very interesting for our students in developing their reading skill.We know that it's difficult to invite the students in doing reading especially in Indonesia, reading is very hard habit to do. So DEAR

Dear readers,

DEAR ( Drop Every thing And Read ) is a kind of program which can be used as improving the students reading ability especially for Junior High school students. I got this program in Burwood Girl High School in Sydney Australia when I visited that school in 2004. I saw DEAR program is very interesting for our students in developing their reading skill.We know that it's difficult to invite the students in doing reading especially in Indonesia, reading is very hard habit to do. So DEAR

As I've already said.

An interesting place to know, learn, grip, clutch, clasp, hold, clench; catch, seize, grab, snatch,..., more than English could be,–)

If you have time and curiosity, of course.

Some links could be broken, if your first gaze it's a broken one, try with other.

OnlineUniversities

And this Podcast, from the BBC

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