International Language Programs


Dear Megan,

Congratulations!  You have been assigned to Fuqing in China for the
Spring 2009 semester. We are excited to have you teach with our
 program and know you will do a wonderful job serving the children.

Thank you for completing the Application and Documents Packet!
We now have the information we need to prepare for your service
abroad.

You will mainly be teaching Primary level classes. Please keep in mind
that we make level assignments to help you be able to gather
age-appropriate supplies—primary teachers will be working with children
ages 4-8 years; elementary teachers will be working with children ages
9-16 years. However, once you are in the country, you may be asked to
teach classes in the other level to accommodate changes in enrollment.
To ensure that you’ll be ready to teach either level, you’ll be trained
for both. We appreciate your flexibility in this area.

Please plan to attend one complete volunteer training session. You can
find the training schedule on our web site at www.ilp.org/training. Your
participation in one of the training sessions is required. Training
sessions provide the answers to many of your questions, introduce you to
the culture, language, other volunteers, and most importantly the ILP
teaching method. Please call the office or email ________ to let us
know which training session you will attend.

If you will be departing in the next two months, please download the
Medical Forms packet found at www.ilp.org/docspacket. These medical
documents must be submitted at least one month before departure. If you
will be departing later, we will email you this packet about two months
before departure.

We look forward to meeting with you again and sharing in your excitement
as you continue to prepare for this adventure abroad!


Sincerely,
ILP Review Committee Chairperson

Shan. =)

light·ning /ˈlaɪtnɪŋ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lahyt-ning]

–noun

1.	a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.

–verb (used without object)

2.	to emit a flash or flashes of lightning (often used impersonally with it as subject): If it starts to lightning, we'd better go inside.

–adjective

3.	of, pertaining to, or resembling lightning, esp. in regard to speed of movement: lightning flashes; lightning speed.

The lightning tore into the sky, so we danced to the cadence of the thunder's rhythm.
(Cadence maybe have to be WOTD soon.)

The tag is to post the fourth picture in the fourth folder of your pictures folder. I was tagged by Rachel. She's awesome.

I took this while I was in Boston last year. I miss that place. This was at the aquarium. That place was hands down the best aquarium I've ever been to. There were penguins all on the first level and the whole room was a spiral ramp. You could get off at any level. The walls of the ramp? Glass to a giant tank where all the sea creatures were. This is where we met Crush. ("Righteous! RIGHTEOUS!")

I hereby tag: Mom, Mom, Kenna, Erika, Elle, ... basically anyone reading. =)

per·snick·et·y /pərˈsnɪkɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[per-snik-i-tee]

–adjective Informal.

1.	overparticular; fussy.

2.	snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.

3.	requiring painstaking care.

Mom, You're persnickety.

e·ter·ni·ty /ɪˈtɜrnɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-tur-ni-tee]

–noun, plural -ties.

1.	infinite time; duration without beginning or end.

2.	eternal existence, esp. as contrasted with mortal life: the eternity of God.

3.	Theology. the timeless state into which the soul passes at a person's death.

4.	an endless or seemingly endless period of time: We had to wait an eternity for the check to arrive.

5.	eternities, the truths or realities of life and thought that are regarded as timeless or eternal.

Families can be together through the eternities.

One Sunday evening, Megan was trying to print something from her laptop. She hooked up to printer number 1: not working. Then she hooked up to printer number 2. After a few minutes she realized that the reason printer number 2 wasn't working for her was because it was not plugged into the wall. After plugging printer number 2 into the wall, she realized that the chord she thought was for printer number 2 was really for printer number 1. When she tried sending the document to printer number 1, it didn't work. So she searched for the chord to printer number 2. She found it quickly and printed her document. She then wondered what she had hooked up to the first time, when she thought she was connected to printer number 1. She followed the chord and, much to her dismay, found that it was the chord to the mouse.

om·i·nous /ˈɒmənəs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[om-uh-nuhs]

–adjective

1.	portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.

2.	having the significance of an omen.

The smoke coming from the hood of the car isn't as ominous as it seems.