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I've played a LOT of crib games in my life but I honestly believe I got my best hand ever tonight (and ended up skunking my wife). Foundations 12 students: anyone able to figure out how many points this is?
This week's Student of the Week is Amanda G (this is the only picture of her that I have. I like it but she might want me to replace it with another one.)
I saw Amanda at school yesterday and it made me so happy that I could not help but make her Student of the Week! Unfortunately, these "Amanda sightings" are very rare. Grade 10 was a wonderful year: I taught Amanda PreCalculus 10 and I saw her (almost) every class. PreCalculus 11 was not quite as good: Amanda (and Maya) took my class "remotely". They watched the videos and did the homework on their own time. So the only time she came to class was when she had tests to write (i.e. not all that often). But this year?! This year is worst of all! Amanda doesn't take Math with me at all. In fact, she hardly ever comes to school at all (it's complicated). I miss you AG!! Amanda DID run Cross-Country the past two years (see photo above). This afforded me the opportunity to see her a little more than I would have. And it allowed me to see some of her best traits on display. Amanda was always so positive, so encouraging to others, so determined, and so HAPPY! Of course, she is like this EVERYWHERE - not just at Cross Country running races! One of my favourite memories of Amanda happened during the District Final race this year. Amanda always got her own way to the races, usually arriving shortly before the Senior Girls' Race. Well, I hadn't seen her when the Girls' race started (which was surprising, but not too worrying). Off went the girls, disappearing into the forested trail. And suddenly, there was Amanda beside me: "Oh no! I missed it!". She had driven to Kerr and 52nd (basically as far away from KG as you can get and still be in Vancouver) only to find that it was all for naught. You'd think she would be annoyed, upset, embarrassed, etc. Not Amanda! Instead she stood with me for the whole race and we had a great chat. She told me all about her work, her sister (the wonderful Samantha!), her school courses, all sorts of stuff. So sorry you missed that race, Amanda, but I am truly glad you showed up. It was so fun to hang out with you for a bit. In fact, Amanda and I had previous experience hanging out together. She was one of the KG France travellers in grade 11. She was such fun to travel with. Amanda and I have something in common: we both LOVE to laugh!! It seemed that no matter what we were doing in France - visiting museums, eating dinner, trying on dresses (do you remember that Amanda?) - we were always laughing. I'm sure it could seem obnoxious to onlookers but I couldn't have been happier. What a fun person Amanda is! Amanda, I honestly wish I'd had the opportunity to teach you more. In fact, it's almost surprising how little time I spent teaching you considering how very, very fond of you I have become. May you never lose your sense of humour, your zest for life, your optimism, and your beautiful smile. I wish you all the best. Thank you for bringing me so much laughter over the past three years. When fans lament Martin’s slow and steady pace, other authors like J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis are bandied about as examples of speedy writers. But as The Washington Post points out in the above graph, those comparisons never account for..well…word count. “A Song of Ice and Fire” is a SAGA in every sense of the word. “Game of Thrones” clocks in at 864 paperback pages, and each subsequent entry has been longer than the last. Based on the numbers, Martin has been cranking out about 200 pages a year. If his estimates that “The Winds of Winter” will end up being around 1,150 pages hold up, we shouldn’t even be EXPECTING it until next year at the earliest.
So there you have it. You can’t argue with math. It's "The Asbestos"!! Everyone's talking about it! Now, here's your chance to read it online!!!16/1/2016 11-year-old British schoolgirl, Kashmea Wahi, just achieved the highest possible score on an IQ test - an incredible 162.
Of course, the usual caveats about IQ (Intelligence Quotient) tests apply: they're not necessarily all that accurate in estimating someone's overall intelligence, even if they are good markers for specific cognitive skills such as mathematical ability and logical reasoning. Nevertheless, Kashmea's maximum score is an impressive achievement - she's one of the youngest people to ever achieve the score on the 150-question Cattell III B Mensa test, because you have to be at least 10.5 years old to take it. |
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