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Dragon's Den

by Dragon is hiding

Rated: 18+ · Book · Experience · #2008479

Nothing official here; just come chill!

Welcome!

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Welcome to my little Den! Here you'll find all sorts of things- mostly blog challenges, but mixed in, you'll notice:

I'm a bit of a fangirl

My life is very busy

I enjoy using emoticons

I don't tend to swear, but stuff happens.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

H❀pe

Mar 7, 2024 at 12:50am
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Wow that sounds an awful day. I wish there was a ready solution you could use. It doesn't sound like their minds were open to relating to you, which might be more to do with their usual teacher/student relationship.

Hope tomorrows students will be much better!

Dragon is hiding

Oct 26, 2023 at 11:35am
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Kåre เลียม Enga

This item and entry are both passkey protected. I haven't posted anything on my public social medias regarding any of the above incidents. Plus, I'm a sub. Worst they can do is not hire me again here.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Oct 26, 2023 at 10:35am
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May I assume that it's risky to post anything re students on social media? Americans have been fired over social posts that have nothing to do with work.

12 years old? If so... not as offensive as they can get!

QPdoll

Aug 18, 2023 at 6:28am
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Wow! What a whirlwind!

Congratulations on officially being a Bar Method teacher! Great job! I'm sure that was very hard work.

Keep us updated!

Angelica Weatherby- Thankful

Sep 29, 2022 at 12:20pm
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Glad to see you back and glad you got success. I am chilling. Oh my labyrinth idea is pretty much ready for Octoprep and that doesn't start until Saturday. Still 2 more exercises to go with world building. The wolves die spoiler alert. I am down with something but will be okay. I look forward to seeing you in Octoprep. I got contests to enter too.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 5, 2021 at 12:29am
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It's sad that we're still talking about covid. I was hoping that by now...

In spite of all the issues you mentioned you were employed for 2 years and figured some things out about yourself. Kindergarten may be a goal but 5th graders can be exciting if they don't have too much attitude yet. I consider 7-10 the magic age. They really can hold a conversation, interact and think. By that age it's apparent that some are brighter than the teachers (but they haven't figured it out yet) and if they don't cause trouble or cop an attitude they can be a joy. I hope that's your experience. If not, you'll know!

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Sep 5, 2021 at 12:17am
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Oh... I don't have the time for a two hour rant! This entry says so much.

I refer to these people as gatekeepers. "We want a litinx ... but ... we want a GOOD one." As if an everyday person isn't good enough.

I've been ranting here about WDC... maybe you can explain in a way that I cannot. 30DBC has been the focus of my rant but it applies to a lot of what goes on. The prompts are geared towards White people, using White language meant to be "non-offensive" and get answered by White people who answer in a White way. They're good people; that's not the problem. But they live in a White world and have no clue how their questions and answers reflect that.

And anything that doesn't fit into that middle-class Whitedom is difficult and controversial.

WebWiԎch is Thankful

Sep 4, 2021 at 9:30pm
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So good to hear from you. Thank you for giving us an update on life in Dragyn's world.

I wish you all the best, my friend. May all your dreams come true.

Webbie

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 5, 2020 at 1:23am
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Too much drama! Fortunately little drama in my life right now. Worry? Anger? Lots! But I remember those long-gone drama-days. Don't want them back.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Feb 24, 2020 at 1:35am
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Never watched this so I had to. Some of those young folks have had classical ballet training is all I'm saying... very entertaining although I'd like to see them do a serious piece rather than just bubblegum glitz.

I think your schedule would exhaust anyone!

As for sleeping... you may have a good point. I'm back from Taiwan and not sure what time or day it is. Tired all the time. Coffee? Yeah, maybe time for that after the long nap I took. It's 23:30 here, still Sunday?

July 18, 2019 at 12:14am

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On achieving greatness

Complete the following statement: To achieve greatness, one must...

These prompts are getting harder and harder to cohesively answer, Emily

I suppose this sentence could go many ways.... persevere, for starters. Practice.Keep Trying, but that's kinda a combination of both.

Take risks (somewhat stolen borrowed from Charlie ~

)

Persevere- Well, nobody ever got anywhere by doing nothing, right?

Therefore, it's a good idea to persevere. Find something you like, then get good at it and keep getting better until you're great.

Keep Trying- Remember those Magic Treehouse books? I read almost all of them as a kid, and I remember when Jack and Annie went back to the Civil War (I think!) and they were in those olllld one-room schoolhouses, and on the board, the teacher had written, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

So, yeah, keep trying.

Also, I think that's kinda how Mom came up with her 3-bite rule- even if you don't really like a food or don't know what a food is, you need to take at least 3 bites of it.

The first one is just to get it in your mouth, the second, to actually taste it, and the third, to pass a judgement on it.

Practice- Look at "persevere"- "nobody ever got anywhere by doing nothing". Need I say more?

Take risks- because where would we be without them?

Sure, some might have terrible consequences, but that's probably when you learn to never do it again.

As for the ones with good consequences, won't you be glad you took those risks?

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