http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/ an American in Oxford en-us 2004-07-02T10:31:13-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000371.html First, a note. This posting is being made to the web site more than a year after I returned to the United States. I actually wrote most of it while in my first few months in Oxford when things were... Oxford Outsider's Guide Erin 2004-07-02T10:31:13-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000157.html As you may have noticed, I have changed my main web site to my teaching site. For now, this portion of the site will remain online as an archive, but it won't be updated or linked from the main page.... Erin 2003-08-06T17:18:14-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000150.html Here's me taking a nap with Mr. Fuzziface taking care of me. He's such a sweetie! Andrew tells me Romeo was sleeping there before he woke up and smiled for the photo. I have no memory of any of... Erin 2003-07-31T22:35:54-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000149.html I'm very busy as I'm back to school now (the students return Wednesday) and gearing up for the new year. I'm a big-time workaholic when it comes to teaching, and Andrew is busy working on a brand new face for... Erin 2003-07-31T22:26:57-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000148.html I'm working on the many forms, letters and plans for the coming school year, so I'm currently knee deep in word processing files. I enjoy this part of teaching, but the work load is pretty intense. Along with that, I'm... Erin 2003-07-23T19:05:31-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000147.html As you can see, the Mr. and I are working on redesigning the site in preparation for the upcoming school year. This isn't what it will look like, but it's a small part in the process. As I said previously,... Erin 2003-07-17T15:07:59-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000146.html All is well and Andrew is home safely. He's been trying to readjust to life Stateside and is now in the process of job hunting. Our boxes of "stuff" from Oxford (mostly books) arrived within two days of my husband,... Erin 2003-07-14T12:37:21-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000145.html It's not that I'm unpatriotic or whatever, but Independence Day has never been my favorite. Acutally, the month of July has traditionally brought more bad news than any other month, so I tend to be a little leary of the... Erin 2003-07-04T21:14:41-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000144.html I'm still around, but busy getting ready for Andrew's return (which I discovered today is a day later than I thought!) and writing the novel. I also had workshops today, so I'm staying busy. So for now just be patient... Erin 2003-06-30T23:36:26-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000143.html At my workshop on Monday I was reminded of an interesting element of the culture of education. There is a certain friction between elementary and secondary teachers. The workshop was scheduled to begin at 8:30 and was located at a... Erin 2003-06-25T16:43:10-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000142.html This week I spent my days in school district staff development training. Each day I spent most of the day hearing about a class I may teach next year, doing some practice activities, and having facilitators answer various questions about... Erin 2003-06-21T14:56:41-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000141.html So next week I'll be getting paid! This week, my very maternal, nurturing department head called. She wanted to discuss my class schedule for next year (which is lookin' good so far!) and let me know that there's a training... Erin 2003-06-14T11:51:31-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000140.html Remember like three weeks ago when I wrote about the Buffy auctions and said what the one thing I would want most would be? Well, guess what. It's there. And there's no way on this earth I could ever afford... Erin 2003-06-11T00:05:04-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000139.html Here are my answers to this week's Friday Five. Being very much in love, I count myself as somewhat of an expert on these questions. And for those of you keeping track, no job. I'll try to motivate myself to... Erin 2003-06-06T21:08:29-05:00 http://www.mrshughey.com/oxford/archives/000138.html I put pictures on my entry about my Oxford visit. Enjoy.... Erin 2003-06-02T11:58:07-05:00