Learn Tech with Ruth

Now that we've been out of school for a week and I have had a chance to get some mental rest I am considering what exactly I am excited about. I had told my school friend Sabine who is still living in Germany where we grew up that in retirement, which is in three years, I want to move to Spain. She was surprised but then confessed she wants to open a bed and breakfast in Sweden where people can still visit with her even though she has a severely disabled husband. It's not really one of those fight or flight situations. I do want to move to Spain and open some kind of rest stop on the Camino de Santiago route. It sounds crazy, I know, but that's a long term plan. Now as far as immediate things I am excited about, there are a few things. We have puppies. They are one week old, too adorable. And there is hiking; we've explored a few new ones lately in the area. I had wanted to do a cross country road trip this summer. It's too bad I am not really that excited about spe...

Today is the last day in May, finally time for me to acknowledge the fact that it's summer vacation. Though we got out of school a week ago, I was busy doing school work every single day, for hours. Why, may you ask. Well with the switch to French and German I had to gather materials for both classes. It's not like I will be provided with textbooks, haha. But I believe I've got this now. In French we will follow the Bon Voyage series with their curriculum at least and in German class we will follow the Deutsche Welle Harry program, which offers 100 episodes, way more than anyone could possibly cover in one year. I also ordered some posters for my classroom. Cuba will have to go, sadly, as much as I enjoyed dreaming of the beautiful island. My Google Classrooms are full of all sorts of good resources to keep us all inspired and get off to a wonderful and fun start of the school year: Syllabi, pacing guides, songs, all Extra! episodes 1-13 with French resources at least, Exi...