English Tutor Andy on face book

I talk about the situation in Sri lanka about children being deprived of a good education.I am then sent a Care2 message about the children in the USA being subject to deprivation via having to pay for tutors and the loans that they take and the repayments they have to make and finally the desperate attempts at having to pay back the sums from the banks merely to support them through their educational years which do not even guarantee them a future in their chosen specialty because they are jobless.

Now my battle here is different but the same in that there are several school island wide which are "International schools" where the fees are treble the cost of a regular school and the home for the foreign students who come to sri lanka via their parents on jobs. The best they can get, if they are really weak in English, is a glorified "Certificate of effort" which means the child has been consistent in her attendance and a punctual person, but it does not give her/him entrance into the university.

Therefore I have created a webpage on facebook to advise the children at least those who are on face book, the mothers of children, the expectant mothers and those who are in the trade that they should be teaching the children correct English in schools so that they won't need tutors. Therefore I decided to go public, to advise the foreign children that sri Lanka can be good port of call for a cheaper education than world wide, and that hopefully, they could come to someone who could guide them in the correct choice of a tutor. Oh well, not me per se, but the first link as myself.  The first is more of a travel/holiday brochure because there is very little that a teacher can say about herself and the role of teacher to kids. They hate them all to begin with :). So the negatives have to be overcome with fun and laughter.  The second is my page to do so.

www.englishtutorandy.ihostvm.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/English-Tutor-Andy-Exam-Trainer/187689141331396

A tune widget code.. and how !

 The following is the code generated to create a new tune widget for some music on a good website which provides downloads, a free DJ and you can create your own playlists, the problem is that one never knows where to post them on your own "wall" unless you are a computer programmer and creating your own web page. The reason for the latter is that you are on the poor side of nowhere and your daughter or cousin has given you their cast off machines, which seem to work wonders when they become yours. Take camera's from ex husbands for example, they work perfectly in your hands, and you are creating almost everything from video clips to fancy photography, though he complains that his photographs and movies via the "Canon" were pink and grey, while yours are all green and blue because your pics are mainly of country and people and animals and nice things, while his are all night clubs and gorgeous two legged creatures. It's no wonder their cameras never work!. The pics they take literally crack the lens (Hoot!). So now, you can take this code and if you are good enough, you will have a free DJ for your parties with downloads with which you can then create your own playlists. Good luck.. Its an introduction to 2.4 million new artists, composers and lyricists who rank number 1 in the world and are not known elsewhere on the web.

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Old age, failing eyesight and blogs and computers

I am very young at heart. I just wish that my body would keep up with my mind. So the spectacles have got a bit thicker, and they will get a lot thicker as the years go on. However, the spam check codes are not getting any easier to read. I sometimes wonder whether they were purposely made to restrict the oldies from becoming more computer literate? The modern age of technology thus controlling your activities and forcing you to leave your seat where you would be creating blogs instead of taking a walk out into the country and exercising the aging limbs. You would be calling your friends on the phone because you cannot read the verification codes to send them an email because some "thing" has triggered the spam filter.  Then you forget your password so you obligingly get the dual method of getting a reminder and you have forgotten where you have left your phone, so you have to scout around for the phone at which time, the time bar has made you have to log in again, and the phone that you find has obligingly gone dead and needs a recharge. One aspect of old age is infinite patience, but even that wears a bit thin when the same procedure has to be gone through at least twice over before you finally get it correct. So here am I trying to get a tune widget from my music website where I rank number one saved on blogger, where this is, and the "post fails" repeatedly on Blogger,  but I can post a blog about it, using the same password which accesses all the info on google. So in the interests of the public and the aging populace, I would respectfully ask Google to please get this blooger business booted up, because its blood and bore while belittling the mind because the blasted buzzwords do not work!.