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...lean back against the wallpaper and raise my hands above my shoulders. “I don’t know,” I start to say, but then Lee-Lee barges toward me and pulls at my mesh top, gathering it up into her fist. She wraps her hands around my ribcage, tugs her nails in, and my forehead starts to buzz like I know she’s going to kiss...
...situation. While his debate friends were going off to law school, Kimel taught English in a South Korean steel factory instead. “It was like being in a Charles Dickens book,” he recalls. “It was at that time that I started looking back at happier times, especially my childhood.”Kimel now makes a living writing instructional material for Korean children, while seeking a publisher for his first story in English, “Max and Screecher, The Underbed Creature”—a twisted, witty poem about...
...identifying children who may be in trouble and offering them assistance. The difficulty with that is you start to think about students' rights. Does this mean we're going to have profiling? Is every student who's "different" going to be targeted? We're going to face these issues. The most important thing is having people available to listen to these students. For example, we have to have some small classes, so that we know the names of these students and we notice if they're not responding. That was why Seung-Hui Cho was noticed in his English classes...
...SUNDAY: Start the morning slowly with Italian coffee and a breakfast panini at Grocer & Grind delicatessen, tel: (62-361) 730 418. Once you're awake, peruse the grocery aisle for locally made artisanal palm sugars, sea salt and coffee to take home as gifts and souvenirs. Or you can step around the corner to Jalan Oberoi and go gift-hunting in its fashion boutiques and design shops. Next, hop in a taxi and head west about 20 minutes to Echo Beach, a popular surf spot. Work up an appetite for lunch by putting the previous day's surfing lesson into...
...Start the evening at Take, tel: (62-361) 759 745, for the best sushi and sashimi on the island. The décor probably hasn't changed since the 1980s, but scenery is immaterial when it comes to the straight-from-the-line fish and variety of live sea creatures in the window tanks. The mantis prawns may look like monsters from a horror film, but the taste - finer than any lobster - is worth the fright...