Order of KAI Official Hang Out; Good Times & Joyous Knives

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sticktodrum said:
If you were getting paid $100/hr to teach one kid something you knew better than anything, you'd be excited also. :D I gotta tell ya, tutoring is one of the best gigs I've had in a long long time. It's rewarding, pays well, and I get to dip into the politics and all of building a rapport with students, their parents, and the teachers that recommend me.

You might want to put down the knives before you start giving out hugs.
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What are you tutoring in? I'm starting to have to tutor my brother in math, and my mom said she'd pay me $15 every time he had a lot of homework. Now I can see why tutoring can be exciting.

I don't get it. I might get stabbed?
 
jhyde7585 said:
Damn $100 an hour is impressive stick :D

Thinking about a knife sale today, there's something I need to get.....

Hmmmm.....
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Indeed, it helps a lot in terms of supplemental income. So, we're not supposed to talk about this stuff outside of the Exchange...but if you were going to have a sale...what are you thinking of liquidating? :D

TotalDbag said:
He can't, because he superglued them to his hand
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Wham!

KnottyEagle said:
What are you tutoring in? I'm starting to have to tutor my brother in math, and my mom said she'd pay me $15 every time he had a lot of homework. Now I can see why tutoring can be exciting.

I don't get it. I might get stabbed?
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The student today, I'm tutoring on academic writing. He's writing a history paper, but needs a lot of help with structuring, forming theses, and how to place the premise of a text within a broad ongoing conversation in the field. Also, there are mechanical items that I've been helping him with like quoting material and the different ways to quote, as well as summary and paraphrase. Apart from that, I usually tutor Literature, and the technical aspect of literature like poetic mechanisms and literary devices. My favorite thing is teaching poetic meters, and showing students why Shakespeare's sonnets can be read like rap lyrics.
 
Lol I gotta wait till I'm home and I can look over what I have and I'm gonna go from there. But as well as a few others, a turbulence, sapphire, random task
 
sticktodrum said:
The student today, I'm tutoring on academic writing. He's writing a history paper, but needs a lot of help with structuring, forming theses, and how to place the premise of a text within a broad ongoing conversation in the field. Also, there are mechanical items that I've been helping him with like quoting material and the different ways to quote, as well as summary and paraphrase. Apart from that, I usually tutor Literature, and the technical aspect of literature like poetic mechanisms and literary devices. My favorite thing is teaching poetic meters, and showing students why Shakespeare's sonnets can be read like rap lyrics.
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That's cool. Do you know what time period he's writing about, or what he's writing about? I love history, I've got a 98% right now, and I've got one more exam and I'll be done with history for the rest of the year.

All of that writing structure stuff sounds complicated, but I must be doing something right because I've got an 89%.
 
jhyde7585 said:
Lol I gotta wait till I'm home and I can look over what I have and I'm gonna go from there. But as well as a few others, a turbulence, sapphire, random task
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Meh...sorry. Nothing there rubs me. Over the last few months, I've been really particular about the knives I buy and keep. Oddly enough, it's not even an issue of money really. I have no idea where I'm going with this, I'm just bored at work.


KnottyEagle said:
That's cool. Do you know what time period he's writing about, or what he's writing about? I love history, I've got a 98% right now, and I've got one more exam and I'll be done with history for the rest of the year.

All of that writing structure stuff sounds complicated, but I must be doing something right because I've got an 89%.
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His paper is on the formation of the Palestinian people, via the Palestinian Refugee problem of the late 1940s. It's interesting stuff, even for me, because I'm always interested in religion and religious history. The student is Jewish (Russian Jew, specifically) and goes to Ramaz High School in the upper East Side of Manhattan. It's a private Orthodox Jewish prep school, and that makes it even more interesting in terms of this kind of history.

Writing structure, academic mechanics and all that stuff can get a bit complicated when you only talk about the mechanics themselves, but in context it's really not bad.
 
sticktodrum said:
His paper is on the formation of the Palestinian people, via the Palestinian Refugee problem of the late 1940s. It's interesting stuff, even for me, because I'm always interested in religion and religious history. The student is Jewish (Russian Jew, specifically) and goes to Ramaz High School in the upper East Side of Manhattan. It's a private Orthodox Jewish prep school, and that makes it even more interesting in terms of this kind of history.
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Wait, so does that mean he has an accent? :eek: I've never been that interested in the history of religion, none if it has really caught my eye. The stuff that I like to watch, read, hear about are wars, and that's just about it. I've never been into anything else, but I still love to learn about stuff like that whenever I can. It's definitely interesting stuff, and sometimes I'll watch a show or read a book about it, but I tend to stay away from it most of the time.
 
KnottyEagle said:
Wait, so does that mean he has an accent? :eek: I've never been that interested in the history of religion, none if it has really caught my eye. The stuff that I like to watch, read, hear about are wars, and that's just about it. I've never been into anything else, but I still love to learn about stuff like that whenever I can. It's definitely interesting stuff, and sometimes I'll watch a show or read a book about it, but I tend to stay away from it most of the time.
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Nah, the kid doesn't. He's American-born, pretty Westernized. Just a regular high school kid. The parents speak Russian and Hebrew, and he speaks to his mother in Hebrew which is really cool considering I can't detect any accent or lean in his English. I envy that, as I have a Uruguayan mother and Sicilian father. I could have been tri-lingual...but nOoOoOOoO, that never happened. I worked at McDonalds for over three 3 years when I was a teen, and ended up speaking Spanish fluently after two years of complete immersion in it from working full time while going to school. However, I learned Mexican Spanish, and to other Spanish speakers it's apparent. It is a bit funny when my mother tells me I speak like a Mexican. :D Tangent? Oh yeah!

Palestinian history is still pretty fresh, but I personally love all history having to do with religion, especially when it ties into politics. I'm not too outspoken about it, I usually keep to myself, but my feelings toward the Catholic Church come up sometimes and I'm a real blast at parties. :p

KnottyEagle said:
Yay, I finished my English class this trimester with a 90%.
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Congrats! So your inbound Skyline will make for a nice reward. :D Enjoy it man, it's a real beauty. I picked my second favorite pattern to send you among the four I got. Sorry, couldn't send you the sexiest one...you had to get second place. :p
 
I finished all the English classes needed for my collegiate career last semester. Now I can bastardize the English language with reckless abandon!
 
sticktodrum said:
Nah, the kid doesn't. He's American-born, pretty Westernized. Just a regular high school kid. The parents speak Russian and Hebrew, and he speaks to his mother in Hebrew which is really cool considering I can't detect any accent or lean in his English. I envy that, as I have a Uruguayan mother and Sicilian father. I could have been tri-lingual...but nOoOoOOoO, that never happened. I worked at McDonalds for over three 3 years when I was a teen, and ended up speaking Spanish fluently after two years of complete immersion in it from working full time while going to school. However, I learned Mexican Spanish, and to other Spanish speakers it's apparent. It is a bit funny when my mother tells me I speak like a Mexican. :D Tangent? Oh yeah!

Palestinian history is still pretty fresh, but I personally love all history having to do with religion, especially when it ties into politics. I'm not too outspoken about it, I usually keep to myself, but my feelings toward the Catholic Church come up sometimes and I'm a real blast at parties. :p



Congrats! So your inbound Skyline will make for a nice reward. :D Enjoy it man, it's a real beauty. I picked my second favorite pattern to send you among the four I got. Sorry, couldn't send you the sexiest one...you had to get second place. :p
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It's ok, I already know what a Russian kids accent sounds like. We have a kid from Ukraine and his mom is Ukrainian (is that what it's called?) and his dad is American. He's got an accent and I'm always near him when he talks. I don't know why, but I love accents. They're just so much fun to listen to. We also had an Italian girl on our bus last year and that was really fun to listen to. I offered her a chip last year just to see what she sounded like, she said no. I'll just say I liked her a little bit :D.

I do like politics a little bit, and I'm pretty outspoken about it too. One of the topics we had to write about in our American History exam involved picking 3 Presidents. We had to write about their greatest contribution, impacts they made socially, politically, and with the economoy. I picked JFK (one of my favorites), George W. Bush, and Obama. I had a lot of fun writing about Obama :D.

That's ok with me. You offered to help, so you should be able to pick.
TotalDbag said:
NERD!!!!!! :p
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You're just jealous!
 
KnottyEagle said:
Wait, so does that mean he has an accent? :eek: I've never been that interested in the history of religion, none if it has really caught my eye. The stuff that I like to watch, read, hear about are wars, and that's just about it. I've never been into anything else, but I still love to learn about stuff like that whenever I can. It's definitely interesting stuff, and sometimes I'll watch a show or read a book about it, but I tend to stay away from it most of the time.
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Just think about what you are saying man! A lot of the history you are interested in has something to do with, if not a lot to do with war. In most cases you won't have much of one with out some of the other. You need to pay more attention to your history subjects! I'm not saying you have to know all about a particular religion but you should now most wars have something to do with it!
 
bad_juju said:
Just think about what you are saying man! A lot of the history you are interested in has something to do with, if not a lot to do with war. In most cases you won't have much of one with out some of the other. You need to pay more attention to your history subjects! I'm not saying you have to know all about a particular religion but you should now most wars have something to do with it!
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That's what I mean. When I do come across religion while reading or watching, I pay attention to it, because It's directly related to whatever war I'm reading or watching about.
 
I cant remember who said it, but something like fighting over religion is like fighting over who has the best imaginary friend lol

maybe Yassir Arafat?
 
greeenie said:
I cant remember who said it, but something like fighting over religion is like fighting over who has the best imaginary friend lol

maybe Yassir Arafat?
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't him. It was a comedian, I just can't remember the name. I've got the voice in my head, the name will come to me. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Carlin that said it though, not in those words.
 
It was Richard Jeni! Now I remember! It was in his special "A Big Steaming Pile of Me", from back in '05. I was watching that special again last week. I loved his comedy, shame he's gone...

Edit: Knotty, I said I wasn't outspoken about my politics. I'm pretty moderate on most things, so I usually prefer to avoid political discussion.
 
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