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Showing posts with label Child Lit 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child Lit 2007. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Salisbury, MD
Thursday
Leslie and I had just enough time to pack our bags and check out (the hotel people very kindly let us leave our bags in the office) and race downtown for a quick tour of Little Italy and the Inner Harbor. We took a water taxi around the harbor and got a nice view of all the restaurants and hotels and museums they have built up down there. Wish we had more time for those museums! We had some scrumptious desserts at Vaccarro's in Little Italy. The streets there would look like Europe except for all the cars and ugly street signs. Then we took the Metro/lightrail back to our hotel and caught the BayRunner Shuttle to Salisbury (about a 2 hour drive).
We were met in Salisbury by one of our instructors, Dr. Patty Dean. She drove us around the "scenic route" to view a little bit of Salisbury before we stopped to have dinner at the Market Street Cafe with our other professor, Dr. Ernie Bond. They are both very friendly, down-to-earth people with a love of books and talking. ;-)
Leslie and I had the pleasure of staying in The Carriage House, a very nice, on-campus accommodation like a little cottage. I wish our entire trip would be like that, but I know there will be times we'll be "roughing it" a little more.
Friday
We had class at Salisbury most of the day and met some of our fellow students (some will be joining us at the airport).
Afterwards, we drove out to Assateague Island for a view of the ocean and a glimpse of the Wild Ponies. Yes, they have wild ponies in Maryland! They were really something. Tame enough to get close to, but not enough to touch.
Then we drove through Ocean City, a very "beach boardwalk" kind of popular tourist place (very east coast feel) and had dinner at Macky's right on the water. Great sunset!
Saturday
Brief class this morning again. Met with one of our guest authors, Bernice Steinhardt, author of Memories of Survival. She tells of her mother's survival in Poland during the Nazi occupation. The beautiful embroidered illustrations were made by her mother before her death in 2001. I really enjoyed meeting and speaking with Bernice. Also, I got a signed copy of the book.
This afternoon, we are off to BWI airport and on to Iceland!!!
Leslie and I had just enough time to pack our bags and check out (the hotel people very kindly let us leave our bags in the office) and race downtown for a quick tour of Little Italy and the Inner Harbor. We took a water taxi around the harbor and got a nice view of all the restaurants and hotels and museums they have built up down there. Wish we had more time for those museums! We had some scrumptious desserts at Vaccarro's in Little Italy. The streets there would look like Europe except for all the cars and ugly street signs. Then we took the Metro/lightrail back to our hotel and caught the BayRunner Shuttle to Salisbury (about a 2 hour drive).
We were met in Salisbury by one of our instructors, Dr. Patty Dean. She drove us around the "scenic route" to view a little bit of Salisbury before we stopped to have dinner at the Market Street Cafe with our other professor, Dr. Ernie Bond. They are both very friendly, down-to-earth people with a love of books and talking. ;-)
Leslie and I had the pleasure of staying in The Carriage House, a very nice, on-campus accommodation like a little cottage. I wish our entire trip would be like that, but I know there will be times we'll be "roughing it" a little more.
Friday
We had class at Salisbury most of the day and met some of our fellow students (some will be joining us at the airport).
Afterwards, we drove out to Assateague Island for a view of the ocean and a glimpse of the Wild Ponies. Yes, they have wild ponies in Maryland! They were really something. Tame enough to get close to, but not enough to touch.
Then we drove through Ocean City, a very "beach boardwalk" kind of popular tourist place (very east coast feel) and had dinner at Macky's right on the water. Great sunset!
Saturday
Brief class this morning again. Met with one of our guest authors, Bernice Steinhardt, author of Memories of Survival. She tells of her mother's survival in Poland during the Nazi occupation. The beautiful embroidered illustrations were made by her mother before her death in 2001. I really enjoyed meeting and speaking with Bernice. Also, I got a signed copy of the book.
This afternoon, we are off to BWI airport and on to Iceland!!!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Wednesday Highlights
Baltimore, MD
- Learned to navigate both the Light-Rail and the Metro.
- California: Gold. Maryland: Green.
- First stop: Lexington Market. It's kind of an old-fashioned street vendor marketplace, except it's indoors (and air conditioned!). After this, a "super" Safeway is just another big, dumb grocery store.
- Ate crab soup for lunch with some really yummy cornbread.
- Found Edgar Alan Poe's grave.
- Walked around in circles for an hour trying to find "Edgar Alan Poe House" but never did.
- Went back to Lexington Market and had a "snowball" (a kind of slushy) to recover.
- In spite of being sweaty and exhausted and looking like hell, a very nice old man told me that I was a "beautiful lady" and that he wished he had a camera so he could take a picture of me. ;-)
- Checked out the Harbor and took a quick tour of the US Coast Guard Cutter Taney. (Will go back to the Harbor tomorrow I think)
- Met up with my classmate Leslie and her Sri Lankan friends.
- Had the *best* crabcakes in the world for dinner.
- Humidity sucks.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Touchdown!
I forgot m'lady Kate! This one is perfect.
Flight/travel went smoothly. Tomorrow I get to figure out how I'm getting around Baltimore.
Rocket's Tail
~Kate Bush
That November night, looking up into the sky,
You said,
"Hey, wish that was me up there--
It's the biggest rocket I could find,
And it's holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment.
I can't see the look in its eyes,
But I'm sure it must be laughing."
But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen,
And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.
I saw only a stick on fire,
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground,
With no one there to catch it.
I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit,
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back.
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge--
Nobody seems to see me.
Then, with the fuse in my hand,
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket,
I land in the river.
Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit,
Size 5 lightning boots, too.
'Cause I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire,
With my tail on fire,
On fire.
Hey, look at me go, look at me...
Flight/travel went smoothly. Tomorrow I get to figure out how I'm getting around Baltimore.
Rocket's Tail
~Kate Bush
That November night, looking up into the sky,
You said,
"Hey, wish that was me up there--
It's the biggest rocket I could find,
And it's holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment.
I can't see the look in its eyes,
But I'm sure it must be laughing."
But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen,
And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.
I saw only a stick on fire,
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground,
With no one there to catch it.
I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit,
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back.
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge--
Nobody seems to see me.
Then, with the fuse in my hand,
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket,
I land in the river.
Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit,
Size 5 lightning boots, too.
'Cause I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire,
With my tail on fire,
On fire.
Hey, look at me go, look at me...
Lift Off!
I've had these songs going through my head the last few days. So many of these songs about taking off into the blue are so bittersweet. If you find one that's a little more joyful, let me know. In the meantime, I'll be humming along with the following when the boosters kick in:
Rocket Man
~Elton John
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight
And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long long time...
Space Oddity
~David Bowie
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
(spoken)
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
Ticket to the Moon
~ELO
Remember the good old 1980s?
When things were so uncomplicated?
I wish I could go back there again
And everything could be the same.
I've got a ticket to the moon
I'll be leaving here any day soon
Yeah, I've got a ticket to the moon
But I'd rather see the sunrise in your eyes.
Got a ticket to the moon
I'll be rising high above the earth so soon
And the tears I cry might turn into the rain
That gently falls upon your window
You'll never know.
Chorus:
Ticket to the moon (ticket to the moon)
Ticket to the moon (ticket to the moon)
Ticket to the moon (ticket to the moon).
Fly, fly through a troubled sky
Up to a new world shining bright, oh, oh.
Flying high above
Soaring madly through the mysteries that come
Wondering sadly if the ways that led me here
Could turn around and I would see you there
Standing there (and I would see you there, waiting...)
Ticket to the moon
Flight leaves here today from satellite two
As the minutes go by, what should I do?
I paid the fare, what more can I say?
It's just one way (only one way)...
Ticket to Ride
~Lennon & McCartney
I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, Yeah
The girl that's driving me mad is going away
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
She said that living with me is bringing her down, yeah
For she would never be free when I was around
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, Yeah
The girl that's driving me mad is going away, yeah, oh
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
She said that living with me is bringing her down, yeah
For she would never be free when I was around
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
Rocket Man
~Elton John
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight
And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long long time...
Space Oddity
~David Bowie
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
(spoken)
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
Ticket to the Moon
~ELO
Remember the good old 1980s?
When things were so uncomplicated?
I wish I could go back there again
And everything could be the same.
I've got a ticket to the moon
I'll be leaving here any day soon
Yeah, I've got a ticket to the moon
But I'd rather see the sunrise in your eyes.
Got a ticket to the moon
I'll be rising high above the earth so soon
And the tears I cry might turn into the rain
That gently falls upon your window
You'll never know.
Chorus:
Ticket to the moon (ticket to the moon)
Ticket to the moon (ticket to the moon)
Ticket to the moon (ticket to the moon).
Fly, fly through a troubled sky
Up to a new world shining bright, oh, oh.
Flying high above
Soaring madly through the mysteries that come
Wondering sadly if the ways that led me here
Could turn around and I would see you there
Standing there (and I would see you there, waiting...)
Ticket to the moon
Flight leaves here today from satellite two
As the minutes go by, what should I do?
I paid the fare, what more can I say?
It's just one way (only one way)...
Ticket to Ride
~Lennon & McCartney
I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, Yeah
The girl that's driving me mad is going away
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
She said that living with me is bringing her down, yeah
For she would never be free when I was around
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, Yeah
The girl that's driving me mad is going away, yeah, oh
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
I don't know why she's riding so high
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
Before she gets to saying goodbye
She ought to think right
She ought to do right by me
She said that living with me is bringing her down, yeah
For she would never be free when I was around
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
She's got a ticket to ride
but she don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
My baby don't care
Monday, July 16, 2007
Something old, something new...
...something borrowed, something blue?
No, wait, that's not it.
Well, I'm all packed and ready as I'll ever be. The website One Bag was a life-saver. If you are ever traveling anywhere, you should read this site first. Very handy!
I'm actually carrying *less* stuff than I packed with me three years ago when I went to Germany, but I feel more prepared.
(Gawd, I hope I'm prepared...)
I wish I could have found the comic strip of Opus packing for a trip: He's hopping up and down on his overstuffed suitcase and shouting, "Socks! Underwear! More socks!" You will have to use your imagination, but that is pretty much what I was doing last night.
1 Day til Lift-Off
No, wait, that's not it.
Well, I'm all packed and ready as I'll ever be. The website One Bag was a life-saver. If you are ever traveling anywhere, you should read this site first. Very handy!
I'm actually carrying *less* stuff than I packed with me three years ago when I went to Germany, but I feel more prepared.
(Gawd, I hope I'm prepared...)
I wish I could have found the comic strip of Opus packing for a trip: He's hopping up and down on his overstuffed suitcase and shouting, "Socks! Underwear! More socks!" You will have to use your imagination, but that is pretty much what I was doing last night.
1 Day til Lift-Off
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