Thing 6 - Mashups

After exploring a bit, I found this site Bubblr that lets you create comic strip type stories using Flickr photos. I just searched for key words and put captions on them to write a random story about a woman and her flowers.

So, without further ado, here it is.

The Story of Helen

In case the link doesn't work, here is the web address: www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?custom=&id=27548

Happy reading:)

Thing #5 - My England Trip

So, after living for four years in Oxford, England I hadn't been back in nine years! So this summer my husband and I took two weeks to tour around my old haunts, and few new ones.

Here are some pictures of where we went:)

This is me at London Bridge, obviously:)

This is me at some ruins in the Cotswolds - good

memories.

And this was because I was naughty at a medieval castle in Warwick!

So, as you can see, England has much to offer a curious wanderer!

P.S. These photos are also available on Flickr here.

Thing 3: 7.5 Habits

It's humbling to say that the hardest habit for me is number 4 - "Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner." On the one hand I tend to be an energetic, enthusiastic and hardworking person, but if I am honest I am often self-depracating, if only in my own mind. As cheesy as they might seem, the words "don't say or think anything about yourself unless you want it to be true" hit me right in the gut.

The one that made me think "oh, I already do that for sure," was number 2 - "Accept responsibility for your own learning." Perhaps it helped that I was homeschooled, but I have always believed and acted on the assumption that you get out of an experience what you put into it. So as much as it might be convenient to blame a poor professor or an unfortunate experience, you are the main (if not sole) being liable for your education.

Ok, I guess I have now completed 1-3. More later:)