Thank You

This is the last posting I'll do on the blog. I'd love to stay in touch with you , but from experience, I know that few students continue with their blogs even if they think they will. The best way to contact me from now on is through my email address: soffer@ncc.edu If you write to me and tell me you want to continue your blog, I'll check your blog as long as you continue to write.

Thank you all for the beautiful cards and generous gift! Thank you even more for the wonderful semester. It was a pleasure to come to work every day thanks to you!

I wish all of you much good luck at NCC or wherever you're off to! You're all going to be successful! Keep in touch.

Fondly,
Elaine

Pride

I am so proud of all of you! I didn't read your blue books thoroughly, but I looked a little at each of them. You did incredibly well! You kept it simple and seemed to have checked over your work. I hope you all get the results you deserve after your good performance today and all the hard work you've put in. Good job!

Almost the End

Hi, everyone. I hope you're having a nice weekend despite the dreary weather. I also hope you're all thinking positive thoughts about the coming week. I think it's going to be a good week filled with success. The best advice I can give you is to get a lot of sleep. It will help you to concentrate. You've all improved so much, and you all have it in you to pass. I'm very optimistic. Try to be optimistic too! See you tomorrow.

Fun Class

The professor who watched our class a little today said afterwards that she had a great time in the class. I just wanted to tell you I did too. You really are a great group and a lot of fun to be around every day. Thank you!

The Long Weekend

I hope all of you are enjoying the long weekend. None of you mentioned your class on Friday. I assume you were all there and that you survived without me!

I had a tiring but enjoyable weekend. I spent a lot of time cooking and eating, but I also got to see some relatives and friends I'm very close to but don't get to see very often. I see some of them only once a year -- on Passover. Both of my kids were sick, but not that sick. They were able to enjoy the holiday anyway.

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow!

Multicultural Fair

I hope you all enjoyed the fair today. I want to congratulate all of you for the great job you did on your country pages. Our class had so many really wonderful projects. Your writing was definitely better than the other classes' writing (Don't tell anyone I said so, though!). I was very proud of you. I wish all of yours could have been chosen, but we wanted each class to be represented. Congratulations to Kim and Thony for having their projects displayed. I hope some of you, at least, saw the highlight of the fair -- Oliver's dance. During one of the rock songs, Oliver put down his backpack, got in the middle of the room and started doing an amazing dance. Everyone made room for him, and stood around him in a circle smiling and enjoying his performance. I smiled and laughed so hard that my cheeks hurt for a while afterward! Thanks, Oliver!

Have a good day tomorrow with Josef. I'll be spending the day in my kitchen cooking for all the company I'll have Saturday and Sunday for the Jewish holiday Passover. (Happy Passover, Debora!). I might be too tired and achy to move on Tuesday, but I'll try to be in class! See you then. Have a great long weekend!

Tiring Weekend

This was a busy weekend. This week, my younger daughter was in a play, so we went to see her last night and this afternoon. She was wonderful, of course (Of course, I am her mother!). I spent all day yesterday cooking for next week's Jewish holiday. I stood in my kitchen for around 8 straight hours. My legs hurt a lot today. I apologize for any mistakes I made commenting on your blogs tonight. I keep dozing off. I think it's definitely time to go to bed.