I am in New Orleans, volunteering to help teachers there. Down the hall from me in the hotel are some women and children — I heard them speaking a foreign language, but I couldn’t make it out. Looked like? Light skin, but with an olive tone, medium eyes. The words, sounds, I couldn’t recognize, but [...]
Letter from B_____
I thought I’d tell you I got a job offer… in [...] a town West of Anchorage with no roads; the airport has only an outhouse. There are 360 kids K-12, 120 live in town, the rest live “down river.” They come to school only once a week to get assignments and lessons to do [...]
Can you read this without a dictionary?
Zenone si rivolta nella tomba
“Allora, ragazzi, avete risolto il paradosso di Achille e la tartaruga? E quello della freccia in movimento?”
“Sì, prof. La freccia colpisce Achille nel tallone, Achille muore e la tartaruga vince”.
Feel free to translate, if you can…
AMC
Nothing cutesy here. Just a thanks to all who participated.
Special thanks to the 33 freshmen who sat there and patiently worked through 25 difficult questions to find the 5 or 6 they could do.
I’m proud of all of you.
