Welcome Penguin commemorates you return / arrival at TAPA.

I hate him.

So... you're back. Or here for the first time. What's up?

Here's the plan for our first day(s) of class:

• Going over the syllabus. British Lit here, English II here, and Comm here.
• Talking about required apps. Right here.
• Confirm everyone's emails are set up. Aqui.
• Check on calendars. Right this way...
• Setting up blogs. Uh huh.
• Remind about Dropbox (and add it to QuickOffice). Almost.
• Talking about TOAST. Yezzir.
• Learn about disagreeing. 

Get a leg up on some extra credit by guessing the color

WARNING: Not necessarily
this year's bathroom slips.

A good guess on what hue Mr. Webb's bathroom slips will be this year might net you a few extra credit points before the semester even starts. Be the first to give the correct color as a comment to this post and, instead of 5 passes, you'll get 8. Only one response per student, please.

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Simple rules:

1. Guesses must be made as a comment to this post.
2. Only one guess per student.
3. If a comment has more than one color, only the first one will count as a guess. So no guessing EVERY color.
4. Must be specific (i.e. "light black", "dark white," etc.)

That time you awkwardly bump into your old blog you forgot about for 2 months.

"OH, hey blog. How you doing? Wow, you look great! It's been a long time... what, since May? May 14th?

"...where have I been? Oh, you know, just really busy. The end-of-the-year came really fast, you know, with final exams and grades due and graduation all that, so there wasn't any time to get ahold of you and tell you how things were.

"Yeah, and then right after all that, I went back to the 'States to see my family, rest up, and everything. Oh, you saw the Facebook pictures? Yeah, I did enjoy myself, sure. Yeah, that was Dominican Republic. Yeah, it was a good time. Did I have internet access? I mean, yes and no; we had it, but it was slow, so I couldn't get into contact with you, ya know. It's kind of tough to travel, right? Yeah, you know...

"How long have I been back in town? Oh, a couple of weeks. We moved to a new apartment, so our lives have been up in the air with cleaning and moving in and reorganizing, all that. I was wanting to get ahold of you soon to jut check with you to see how it's all been, but with my summer American Lit going on, it's just been nuts.

"I know, it really is great to see you too. I've thought about you a lot, lately, and all the good times we had. They were good times, weren't they? We had some fun. Look, I know it might be really soon... but... well, are you seeing anyone else? No? So, would it be ok if... like... I posted to you sometime? For old time's sake? Really? You sure you'd be ok with it?

"Seriously, blog, I have missed you. I think about all the fun we had, all the things we went through, every problem, every victory, and... look at me, getting emotional. I just missed you. That's all."

A Wordle word-cloud of the most oft-used words from this blog. (Click to expand)

And so it begins... again.

I've written a number of blogs before, for a variety of purposes, but this time around, the purpose of this is to keep my students and the teachers of Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy up-to-date with what goings-on of my classes and applicable technologies.