It was Miss Racker's fault

Hi everybody! How are you? I know, I was absent these last couple of days. But I have a good reason for that. I would like to say I had a great week but I would be lying. Last weekend, I had a terribly cold, and a big large branch came down and took our power line. The whole neighborhood out of power. Technically, the tree was on our property, so it was our fault, you could say, but Miss Racker lives in the neighborhood, so I’m blaming her. 

Now, I’m pretty good but extremely tired. I’ve been working a lot, and I had (and I still have) a lot to study. I’m worried as hell because I sat for my final exam in the Korean course. The teacher will only choose the best marks to pass to the next level. Of course, if we don’t pass, we will be able to do the course again. But, I really want to pass because I studied a lot. Sometimes I go from Spanish to English and Korean in a second. True story: the other day I went to charge my Sube, and the salesperson asked me if I wanted something else, and I answered: anio.

 In addition, I started my practice lessons. In second year, I was terrified when I had to deliver those lessons. Now I’m more relaxed.  Nevertheless, my main goal is to pass my Korean exam. That’s why I’m not panicking about Prácticas. I mean, I prepared the lesson, printed everything beforehand, and buy nice clothes for the first class to look more professional. After the lesson, I gave my new clothes to charity. She is the woman who dry-cleans my clothes. I’ll be honest. Pretty much every day I wear T-shirts and jeans. I go to school, and right before I walk out there, there’s a wig lady who just slaps fake hair on my head, and I start the class. I like nice clothes, but I don’t wear them unless I’m going someplace fancy like the schools where I work or meeting my friends for afternoon tea (quila). 

The thing is that at the end of the day, I end up with chalk dust all over my T-shirt and jeans. There are people who don’t care, and they can even prepare tomato sauce in a suit, and they do not have a single spot on them. The other day, I put on a new pair of jeans, and I looked at a piece of bread, and somehow olive oil just jumped to my pants. What did we learn from all of this? Nothing. Nothing at all.

But something funny happened the other day, and I thought you would like to know. In Written 4, we read “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. Amazing story by the way. When the author describes the Tyrannosaurus Rex something called my attention. According to the description of the dinosaur, the T-Rex had two brains. I understand that this story was written right after the Second World War so, at that time lot of people did not know much about dinosaurs, and their brains.

We discussed the idea of dinosaurs having two brains. Let me tell you something, this is a myth.  According to Eric Yan, “Dinosaurs do not have two brains. People used to believe that, but it turns out ‘the second brain’ is actually a big bundle of nerves. I suppose it could be thought as a second primitive brain but in truth it is not a brain. People used to believe dinosaurs had two brains because there was a large canal in the area of the hip in some dinosaurs. Since a lot of dinosaurs had small brains, the idea of a second brain to help keep predators away and have faster reflexes became popular.”

This myth started back in the 1870s. When Othniel Charles Marsh named the Stegosaurus, he said that ‘an extra-large space for the spinal cord in Stegosaurus’ hips may have functioned as a second brain that helped coordinate the stride of the animal’s long back legs with its short front legs.’ According to him, ‘The space was so large that a second brain would have dwarfed the ‘main’ brain in the animal’s skull.’ Pretty awesome theory, but rather stupid in my opinion.

Btw, on Wednesday I went to watch ‘Jurassic World: fallen kingdom,’ and it was amazing. I have to buy the Jurassic World Panini stickers album. I have all the albums, the movies, the posters, and the books. In addition, this year my students from 6^th year have to read the first book. What? Don’t give me that look. It is my job to give them the good stuff.

Ok, I have to go to bed because tomorrow I will face my Korean destiny.

Have a nice week!