hey all,
This marks the second weekend in a row where Michi and I have planned on going rock climbing, only to make excuses the day of. It really is just...not on our top list of priorities. In this kind of weather, I'd much rather go swimming. I mean, it is still 32 degrees C at 8AM. It gets even hotter in the afternoons.
Last Saturday, Michi brough home a curry cook book. This is one of those cookbooks that has lots of pictures in it, and lots of hints and advice, and the recipes so far are really good. In Japan, curry is really easy to make because you can just go to a supermarket and pick up some roux. All you really need to do is chop some meat and veggies, fry them up, add water and the roux and you're set. But these recipes taste like the curry you get at Indian restaurants. You've got to fry the cumin seed, chop and fry the onions, add the spices and other veggies step by step, add the meat and water, etc.
So we made curry Saturday night, and also Sunday night.
Not too much else going on. We have two mornings this week when the AM kids won't be coming in, so the teachers will be using that time to make even more material. I'm going to try to pick out some professionally made workbooks for my students to use, because hand making everything is too time consuming.
I just went through another spate of downloading teaching book samples onto my phone. I'd really like to be reading Batman comics, but I'm waiting to see how much the B1 Toughpad will be.
Cheers,
