Mid-Term Hectic, Gotcha Days and Captain America Blogathon

I haven’t been blogging properly on this blog since March 7!! … MORE THAN 2 WEEKS!!

It might not look like that because I reblogged 2 posts somewhere in between…but reblogging doesn’t count, in my opinion. The reason is quite simple!! I have been very busy!! Being a teacher means that I have some months where I have more extra work than the rest of the months in a year (I also have holidays, that’s the best part of being a teacher 😉 ). Last week, my school was having the special mid-term test which means that I have to prepare the test on the previous week. I have to prepare 3 test, one for Grade 10’s Chemistry, one for Grade 10’s Physics and one for Grade 8’s Science. Preparing the right level of difficulty on the test is quite challenging. I don’t want them to have the easiest test on earth but I also don’t want them to have the most difficult ones. For grade 10, I have to search from a lot of Cambridge past papers as a way to prepare them for the exam next year.

The dreaded (according to the students) has finally over and that only means 1 thing…I have to check them all and grade them. I hate giving multiple choice kind of questions…so I avoid it but that means I needed extra time to check all the papers. Fortunately, I am now down to 1 class to check 😉

The hectic week of being a teacher has passed…I can blog properly again now 🙂

The two reblogs I mentioned above were about my baby turtles, March is very special for me because I brought home two turtles in this month (I also lost one this month but I prefer to not remember such sadness and focusing on the happy days). I spent quite a few hours to teach myself the art of Prezi. And then I looked up for ways to change that prezi into a video. I really like prezi, i can share my baby turtles’ pics in a more interesting ways 🙂

Here’s the video of the two prezi:

Happy 6th Gotcha Day to Kroten and 2nd Gotcha day to Papoe ((hug))

The last thing I want to share here is a movie blogathon (I know I should have posted this in a new post but I have so much to share and so little days in one week, so 1 post for 3 different topics seems like the most possible way for me).

Borrowed from Flixchatter

Andy @ Fandango Groovers Movie Blog has created another fun movie blogathon:

This isn’t the first blogathon I have organised, however it has been thrown together very quickly. I have just see an extended trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In it we see Steve Rogers make a note in a pocket note book. A list of things he missed out on in the time he was frozen that people have recommended he should catch up on. Towards the bottom of the list there are two movies Rocky and Rocky II. This got me thinking, what ten movies would you recommend a person who  had been frozen between 1943 and 2011.

The make-up of the list is up to you. It could be an historical record of what he missed, something to cheer him up/take his mind of things or just your favourite movies from the period.

I am going to go along with the movies that I think is so different to other movies out there….and to be honest, most of them are my favorite movies. The list is in no particular order.

1. The Matrix

Humans are nothing but battery for the machine that rules the earth!! That is an amazing imagination that will blow the mind of a man from 1943.

2. Ringu

A ghost that appear in the middle of the day and the curse is tough to break. As most ghost appears at night (in most movie) I think this different appearance could scare the frozen in time man.

3. The Lord of the rings

Such believable world with astounding scenery would make anyone from 1943 drops his jaw.

4. Star Wars 4,5, 6

I still think this is one of the best sci-fi movie and look so real. It would awe anyone from 1943.

5. District 9

If I came from 1943, I would definitely believe that prawn aliens live in South Africa because District 9 looks more like a real documentary rather than just a movie

6. Inception

Dream inside dream…mind blowing imagination. I know I will make this imaginary 1943 person’s head spinning dizzily with this movie…but I think watching Inception worth being dizzy.

7. Saving Private Ryan

The most real war scene I have ever seen…it doesn’t sugar coat the gory part of war. I think anyone from WWII era will feel like he has returned to his era…though it wasn’t a good one.

8. Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Comedy with brain. The only comedy I want to share with someone from the past is this one, so many comedies nowadays are full of brainless silliness, I wouldn’t want to contaminate him with such comedy.

9. Spirited Away

It wouldn’t be a perfect list without animation and of course I will recommend the best animation I have ever seen. Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi is outstanding in both graphic and story/plot.

10. Jurassic Park

Since the most decent dinosaurs movie before 1943 is The Lost Word (youtube), I sincerely believe that Jurassic Park would make the man from the past jump off the chair seeing the terrible lizards look so real in Jurassic Park.

Well… those are the 10 movies I would recommend to anyone from 1943, looking forward to know yours 🙂

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I know I have put too much in one post, just go through the ones you want to read and ignore the rest 😉