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UN World Drug Report 2009

Recently the UN released it's annual World Drug Report 2009 - the interactive presentation is well worth seeing.  Also, the Boston Globe's Big Picture ran a photo essay commemorating the report's release (warning:  some of the images are graphic).  I'll blog on the report's findings soon.

 

Song Contest

Part of my First Year class' homework assignment last week was to write a song using a Psalm.  I divided the class into two groups - the girls vs the guys (nothing gets students motivated more than the battle between the sexes in a classroom venue) and then I threw in a twist - they also had to come up with a choreography.   So today we had the contest...

Explaining the rules:

 

The guys went first with their song:

 

Our panel of judges: (fellow staff members Xóchitl, Jeny & Lolis L-R):

 

And now it's the ladies' turn:

 

And after calculating the results, the judges determined that the ladies won.  It turns out that it was the lack of choreography that killed the guys' chances of winning, but their song, it turns out, was actually quite good.  Maybe they'll record it and it'll be the next big worship song in Latin America ...