Are you prepared? Are you ready? Aren’t you nervous? | Compelling Conversations http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/ Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics for ESL learners and teachers Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Are you prepared? Are you ready? Aren’t you nervous? | Compelling Conversations http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/comment-page-1/#comment-12153 Chimayo Press Sun, 31 May 2009 14:41:57 +0000 http://compellingconversations.com/blog/?p=235#comment-12153 Karenne - We absolutely agree. Choosing priorities - and honoring our choices -remains critical. Yet so often we get lost in the hectic routines that we forget that we chose these priorities and challenges. I look forward to slowing down a bit and working more online in the near future. Meanwhile, I'm writing some new course materials, interviewing EFL teachers in Vietnam, and still re-editing different versions of Compelling Conversations. Oh, and starting a new life in Ho Chi Minh City for the summer! Karenne – We absolutely agree. Choosing priorities – and honoring our choices -remains critical. Yet so often we get lost in the hectic routines that we forget that we chose these priorities and challenges.

I look forward to slowing down a bit and working more online in the near future. Meanwhile, I’m writing some new course materials, interviewing EFL teachers in Vietnam, and still re-editing different versions of Compelling Conversations. Oh, and starting a new life in Ho Chi Minh City for the summer!

]]> Are you prepared? Are you ready? Aren’t you nervous? | Compelling Conversations http://compellingconversations.com/blog/2009/05/23/are-you-prepared-are-you-ready-arent-you-nervous/comment-page-1/#comment-11785 Karenne Sylvester Tue, 26 May 2009 10:56:50 +0000 http://compellingconversations.com/blog/?p=235#comment-11785 Hiya Eric, Glad to hear it! I've missed seeing you around a bit in the web2.0 but guessed you were massively busy! I often think that time is simply a question of priorities and habitually tell my students these LOL - everyone's got time, just that each person's got to decide how to spend it and not do everything ;-) Take care, Karenne Hiya Eric,

Glad to hear it! I’ve missed seeing you around a bit in the web2.0 but guessed you were massively busy!

I often think that time is simply a question of priorities and habitually tell my students these LOL – everyone’s got time, just that each person’s got to decide how to spend it and not do everything ;-)

Take care,
Karenne

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