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		<title>Goodbye Summer Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you summer vacation! Last Friday I arrived back “home” in Singapore to glorious hot, sunny weather and a leisurely day at the condo capped off with an evening walk through Emerald Hill and dinner and lime juice at Warong M. Nasir Indonesian Food, one of my favorite inexpensive restaurants in the “hood.” Today is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2011/08/09/goodbye-summer-vacation/</link>
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		<title>Twenty-Ten Pleasures ~ Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a few short hours Bellingham time, 2010 will be just a memory . . . one filled with more &#8220;new&#8221; than I imagined as I sat in front of my MacBook last December 31st.  A new passport.  A new home.  New city.  New friends.  New job.  New food finds.  New hairstyle (thanks to the humidity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2011/01/01/twenty-ten-pleasures-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As another month wraps up, I can&#8217;t help but wonder, &#8220;Where in the world did October go?&#8221;  I&#8217;m fairly certain I&#8217;ll feel the same way when the last day of 2010 approaches, at the end of our first year here, and (no doubt) when my two-year Singapore commitment runs out. Highlights of this month include: a blissful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/10/31/goodbye-october/</link>
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		<title>Bali Bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four restful days in Ubud, Bali . . . just a 2-1/2 hour flight from Singapore, yet a world away.  This was pure, unadulterated bliss!  ]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/10/20/bali-bliss/</link>
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		<title>THIS is why I teach . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really not cool &#8212; not at all &#8212; to cry in front of 8th graders.  So I didn&#8217;t.  But today I came mighty close.  Today was the last reading of Cynthia Lord&#8217;s Touch Blue, a novel I chose carefully as our debut read aloud for the year.  As we gathered on the carpet, Reader&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/10/06/this-is-why-i-teach/</link>
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		<title>A few more pleasures . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some day, when I return to Bellingham, I hope I&#8217;ll remember unexpected pleasures such as these: &#8211; &#8220;I love you, Katniss!&#8221; shouted at the top of his lungs by 13-year-old Siddhanth (better known as Sid) as he lunged off the Tower and plunged into the sea at Telunas a week ago.  This is a kid who not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/10/02/a-few-more-pleasures/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s what I call a &#8220;field trip&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spent three days last week accompanying the 8th grade A-siders (about 100 kids) to Telunas Beach, Indonesia for our annual CWW trip.  Classroom Without Walls is the mother of all field trips &#8212; three days, two nights of team/community building at a &#8220;rustic resort&#8221; in the gorgeous Riau Islands (here&#8217;s where rustic means no hot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/09/26/thats-what-i-call-a-field-trip/</link>
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		<title>Missing my MRT stop (and other pleasures)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My end-of-the-work-day ritual in Singapore of reading during the commute home reminds me of my pleasures as an elementary school kid.  I used to turn down a ride home so that I could walk and read the mile or so from Shorewood Elementary School to our house on Standring Lane.  Yep, I was that kid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/09/20/missing-my-mrt-stop-and-other-pleasures/</link>
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		<title>A break in the action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can hardly believe we just finished our first month of teaching &#8212; four weeks with 8th graders already completed.  I don&#8217;t recall any teaching year ever zipping by this quickly.  The exhaustion factor continues and I&#8217;ve come to believe it&#8217;ll grow exponentially week by week, especially if I don&#8217;t do a better job of getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/09/11/a-break-in-the-action/</link>
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		<title>Hungry for HUNGER GAMES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hungry for HUNGER GAMESHungry for HUNGER GAMESHungry for HUNGER GAMESHungry for HUNGER GAMESHungry for HUNGER GAMESHungry for HUNGER GAMES Hungry for HUNGER GAMESHungry for HUNGER GAMES There&#8217;s no denying it . . . The Hunger Games Trilogy Revolution is alive and well in Room M126.  Every single copy available (from my library, to the entire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nancyjjohnson.com/blog/blog/2010/09/01/hungry-for-hunger-games/</link>
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