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TEFL Teachers!!!

Hi, I'm about to finish my TEFL certification course (yay), and I want to find some other TEFL/ESL teachers, talk about online teaching, how to prepare to start, things to look out for when looking for TEFL jobs online, etc.

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Sunrise Water Nymphs, Arthur Prince Spear, 1920

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Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse

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The Three Fates (1910) by Alexander Rothaug.

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Virginia Woolf

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I hate how elitist and Eurocentric dark academia can be. i love the old university buildings, rich dark attire, and Latin phrases that come with it, but i can’t stand the elements of superiority and exclusivity. as a college student i feel like the draw at the heart of academia is a love of knowledge and passion for sharing it with as many people as possible. so as a poc in university, here’s my take on dark academia:

Filipinx students poring over library books of Baybayin and other pre-colonial alphabets and dialects of Tagalog

students hungrily downloading pdfs of textbooks, biographies, the newest research papers on nuclear fusion and archaeological discoveries

hands the same rich shade of brown as the ancestors who could only dream of being surrounded by hundreds of books searching through dusty tomes for stories of their heritage

thrifting old, oversized blazers to thrown on over a sweater you’ve had since high school before running to your next lecture

printing copies of notes and lectures to send to the family members who gave up their dreams of seeing the stars so that you could study them

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dear diary, 2/17

today is confusing. good things are coming up very soon. i feel more worried than ever. i haven't read in a few days and i need to catch up. putting a lot of things off this week.

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our phantoms forever, forever

demolition lovers mcr

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100-ish classics and must-reads

solaris girl's list of 100 must-reads :-)

( bold = read. constantly updating!)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 

1984 - George Orwell 

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Giver - Lois Lowrey

The Book Thief - Markus Zusack

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Candide - Voltaire

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - Naomi Klein

The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe

Emma - Jane Austen

The Republic - Plato

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Tell Tale Heart and Other Readings - Edgar Allan Poe

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Sidhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespear

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Middlemarch - George Eliot

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

White Fang - Jack London

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

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“forgive all the versions of yourself that operated out of fear instead of growth, the ones that viewed comfort zones as safe havens and abandoned boundaries to keep other people happy, forgive all the versions of yourself that didn’t know that love begins with how you treat you.”

— iambrillyant

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Fog and Sun, Sea and Stone The Monterey Coast, 1980

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february reads + 100 classics :-)

my february reads!

the bell jar - sylvia plath

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

hiiii, this month i'm only reading two books. tragic i know. right now i'm focusing on classics since i'm starting college and i want my knowledge, vocab, reading, etc. back up to where it was when i was 14! which is definitely the last time i read all the time like this. so i'm starting at the top of my 100 classics list and skipping ones my library doesn't have for now. i'll post a full list of my classic tbrs and will post a review on each i complete!

love,

solaris girl

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“I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”

sylvia plath, the bell jar

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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Chelsea Wolfe, from Birth Of Violence; “The Mother Road,”  rel. c. 2019

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dear diary, 2/16

today i feel connected, beautiful and worried as always. my love lights up my forest like sunshine pouring down rocks. i sit on the ground and look up into his golden rain of love. i love spending my life with him. today i feel sensitive and feminine in the most naive way possible. all i want is to sit in the sun and write my poems. to feel the mud and to see the clouds. to feel the wind caress who i was and who i am, creating one. im happy. happiness is fluid and right now im swimming in it. later i will be sorrowful, as is the duality of woman. :-)