I actually got my Money Order for $40.00 at Giant, but then my school told me I addressed it to the wrong recipient, bla bla bla, I can return it at Giant to get a new one. Well, the Giant’s money order machine became mysteriously “broken”. The time that the reasonable money order search took will hopefully be repaid to humanity by people reading this blog and saving themselves some time and money. My chickenchase ended with finding the “Best Places to Get a Money Order” from the worst, to the best.
The Worst:
4) PNC Bank: After waiting in line for over 10 minutes because there was only one teller open, I got the bad news. I had thought- “Well at my bank maybe they’ll do it for free because I have an account with them!” NO! When I told him how much, he said “5.00 dollars” (which is way more than 10% even!). I guess $5.00 is their starting fee!!! He even suggested I go to Giant. BOOO!!! Your bank might do something like this to you too.
3) The Post Office: The post office isn’t the worst place, but my local post office is, because there are always long lines and only one poor post office worker. And I sort of forget, but last time I think the charge was like 1.50 (I’ll check on this) but it wasn’t as cheap as the followings…..
The Best:
2) 7-Eleven: usually going to be a pretty quick transaction, and the flat fee for a money order anywhere up to $500.00 is $1. One dollar. Not to mention the banks and post offices are only opened sometimes and grocery stores are usually open later and 7-elevens…could be all night!
1) Giant, Superfresh, or any other grocery store: If only it could have been as simple as getting my first money order and addressing it right- it was only 59 cents fee at Giant. Since Giant’s wasn’t working, after several FAILS, I got it at Superfresh- 75 cents fee at Superfresh. Not bad compared to annoyingness and upwards to $5.00.
The Best Place To Get A Small Money Order Is Your Local (Larger) Grocery Store! Seriously, ladies, and gents, save a buck or two!
so happy to finally be done three long years of mastering my life. soon enough i will have the qualifications to teach French in any high school here in Piyay….or really any other state as well. it all depends on how much they like me. and I like myself a lot. I actually grew to be a very competent teacher, or rather, I have the potential and ability to continue to grow into a competent teacher.
yay!
I am too excited. now it’s time to look for a Summer job and send out packets to potential Fall school jobs. YAY!!!
Ron Paul anyone? Remember Ron Paul tomorrow when you head out to the ballet poles. Please remember this man when you think of happiness, hope, and freedom.
Also remember that after tomorrow I am basically done with my Master of Arts. I do say basically because I have to go and turn in and present all of my stuff stuffs and stuff, but seriously. Watch out people!
I’m going into the world with a vengeance and never looking back. Well. I’ll probably keep spinning my head all wildly around like a vagabond.
Quality blogging to follow……………procrastination lessening? yeah. right.
that all depends really. hugely inappropriate sometimes.
but the children have inspired me to be a little bit more expressive about my boredom.
i hear kids say it all the time when i know they are not bored.
hmm. ehh.
the children are making me tired.
must sleep. almost finished. so many weird and exciting things to say. best friend getting married very soon. went out tonight and socialized and it was fun.
yes ladies and gentlemen, that’s right. i’m almost done student teaching. and the craziest part?! my last observation went really well today. so yay! yay for that. i am really glad. i have never felt better (besides being insanely tired and overwhelmed with finishing up) but the end is so close (almost) nothing could bring me down. i will be done over two decades of school.
and then i have to find a job in a school. student teaching has been good. a real good look into the life of a teacher. and i like it, and sometimes i don’t. so i will look into other jobs as well. but i may as well try teaching for a bit now that i’ve done so much of the work for free.
oh will there be celebrating! probably about 8 or 10 parties. you might be invited to one of them.
I don’t like to get into celebrities much, except if they need a good roast.
Alicia Keys moves awkwardly. When she’s standing up playing piano in that one video, she looks like more than a fool. And then I read that article.
She says: “‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. ‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”
What? I don’t quite get the context of the second sentence. First sentence? She might have a point. But then she goes and gets into it to make more awkward statements.
Also: “Keys, 27, said she’s read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ‘em dead,” according to an interview in the magazine’s May issue, on newsstands Tuesday.”
How is that doing any good? I’d also like to have known more about what she meant by “killing ‘em dead”. Isn’t that making more hatred and racism?
If she’s trying to make some sophisticated point, I don’t think she’s doing a good job.
And, as someone commented on that article- if you really want to make a point, keep more of your clothes on. Otherwise not doing anything to aid the gangsta-rap-warfare, and you’re degrading yourself and contributing to the cheapening of womankind by trying to use your body to further your career.
That’s a whole other subject. This is enough for today. Well…here’s a closing point:
And I was also reading in my latest edition of the National Educator’s Association newsletter about how many more teachers are leaving the profession all together because of the unreasonable expectations put on them by the upper govgies, and how they put out all these wonderful slogans with the most-children-left-behind-but-we’ll-say-no-child-and-let-
the-teachers-be-the-doubly-screwed-over-ones and give them no funding.
And where is all that money going instead of to teachers or other people really trying to help the children, the future?
It’s disgusting. I hate to be so pessimistic, but it’s just sick how messed up money-grubbin-power-lovin-foot-tappin-prostitrappin-repatilianoidal fiends are running this place?
Ugh.
Day by day. I will do what I can. But it’s tough. I think things will change soon. I just hope it doesn’t cost so many hundreds of lives. The money is fake anyway, but the lives are real irreplaceable souls.
Poll: How cute are these gems of nieces of mine?!?! It’s hard to be objective, but I do believe they are the cutest things in existence. Ever.
Charlie showing the new house (really it’s only her face the whole time)
Favorite parts: Everything. The way she says “I was watering the plants, they were soo watered” “how big of a hole I found” “a brand new bunk-bed you can see on this radio” (she also calls it a picture and a tape) how she says “computer” “There’s this stretch-up elevator I’m gonna save my money up on it”. And of course “why do I keep saying uh uh uh (what a smartie)” and the ending…”Well this is goodbye so fare weeelll” (I had to ask her mom what she was saying there). It sounds like “for real” a little.
Lizzie aka Lizzard dancing
She is way too cute and I’ve only met her when she was so little (4 months). It’s nice to see what she’s like now. She tries to dance with the vaccuum cleaner, a robot, and Charlite, who ducks away from the camera (but is usually so camera-crazy)
Charlie playing Guitar Hero, Lizzie singing and being too cute
how can we get children/teens these days to think? what can they make of the world?
they are addicted to constant flashy input and changes in technologies and ways of communicating. they are addicted to computer games, video games, texting and instant messaging, and all sorts of technologies.
they are in a competitive society (ameriduh) that bases grades and rankings on an odd, mismatched actual-intelligence-to-performance scale. they want to do the work for a grade, not to learn.
i try my best to plan things that the students will enjoy, and i still fall short.
there is less respect out there now than ever, and i can think of a few reasons why. ameriduh is so relaxed and falsely intimate (think facebook status updates: Julie is laughing at Robert who is drunk on the floor). and don’t even get me started with politics and the structure and values in society.
i’m saying a whole bunch of things. but mostly i was surprised that when i asked students to think and put some things they knew and had recently learned together…some of them couldn’t even begin to start thinking. they can memorize and repeat. often times without it even getting in their head. five seconds later someone will ask “what does that word mean?” that we were going over, or, “what are we doing?” and i said it and wrote it on the board.
well. who knows. it could still be partially my fault that i don’t spend 17 hours a day planning lessons. but i think it is a change in attitude and in how much thinking children do. they don’t have to be creative these days, the toys and the technology is creative for them. everyone gets a medal for trying, but then there are the SATS and the PSATS and the PSSAs and the ranking and tracking and the testing and it gets them all messed up.
i don’t know how to think right now, but i just can’t believe the amount of work a good teacher has to put in and can still feel like an entertainer and a disciplinarian (sometimes more like a babysitter), and occasionally a magician. all that and more before you can just be a teacher.
