I don't know about you, but when the weather turns colder, I like to stock up on my favorite drinks. These are the drinks I go to when I want something special. My top three are: hot chocolate, tea, and coffee.
Hot chocolate is the one drink that I associate with fall and winter. I remember back when I was a child all of the times I would drink a warm/hot cup of hot chocolate with my siblings while we watched a seasonal show or movie.
One thing that I started drinking while in high school was hot tea. I use Bigelow Tea when I do make a cup, or a pot, of tea. When I know I'm going to be sitting for a while, I make a pot of whatever tea I feel like for the day. If I only have a few minutes, I'll make just a cup of tea.
Coffee was something that I didn't get into drinking until I was in college. After I got a taste of it, I couldn't stop drinking it. I drank it everyday while in college. When I got my first job out of college, I only drank it on the weekends or after I got out of teaching for the day. To this day, I don't need to have coffee in order to get through the day like I did in college, but I still enjoy a good cup or two every now and again. When I go out to get a drink during fall, I like to get one of the following: pumpkin specialties, white chocolate mocha, or one of the specials that I usually get throughout the year.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
Why I Want to Travel
Many of you may be curious as to why I want to travel to so many places as listed on my Bucket List Page. That is a perfectly valid question, one that I wish to explain here.
I've always wanted to visit certain countries ever since I first learned about them in my Social Studies classes in school. As time continued, and I learned more and more about these countries through literature and movies, my desire to see these countries for myself has grown.
London is the first place I want to go due to the fact that I have a degree in English Education. I've developed a love of The Bard and many of the other well-known British authors over the years I was in high school and college. Through all of the historical background research for my classes, I've developed a love for the history of the city and surrounding countryside.
One cannot go to England without visiting Scotland. The main reason for my desire to visit this country is to see the beautiful countryside and possibly participate in games that take place here. I also grew up watching the 1950's movie Brigadoon, which is a movie that deals with a small town in the Scottish highlands. If you've seen this movie, you know what I mean.
Ireland is another country one would logically visit if visiting the British Isles. There are customs from this country that are often thought of as the same as the Scottish customs, but they are different. St. Patrick's Day is a holiday that has an Irish background. If you don't already know the background of this holiday, now would be a good time to go and re-read that part of your history books. This history, along with other stories from history, makes up just one reason why I want to go there. The other reason is because of the influence of Irish history and stories about faeries that were told in the movie Behind the Waterfall. This is a movie that was written and produced by Feature Films for Families back in the 1990's. It's a great movie and I highly recommend that you go watch it.
One country that I want to visit has to do with music. While I was in high school, one of the music classes I took dealt with music history. While learning about one of the composers, Hayden, I learned that he was from Austria and that his patron was the king. The castle Hayden lived in/performed all of his music in is beautiful (at least from the pictures I've been able to find). This is the one of the two main reasons I've always wanted to go to to Austria. The other reason is from a movie that many people have seen: The Sound of Music. It takes place in Austria and is yet another reason to go visit Salzburg and walk the streets that Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp kids did in the movie.
Traveling the world wouldn't be the same if I didn't make a stop in Paris. Paris is known as one of the cities of love, although this love is not the same as the other. But love is not the only thing the French do in Paris. There's art, food, and many other things the French culture has to offer that one would be foolish to not make a stop there in their trip around the world.
Italy is another one of the places people think needs to make an appearance on the list of places to visit when traveling around the world. I have to agree. With all of the historical, architectural, political, musical, and literary significance that Italy has provided the rest of the world, it makes logical sense to want to visit. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you weren't paying much attention in any of your social studies classes.
Yet again, another country one has to add to the list for reasons of historical, architectural, political, and literary significance would be Greece. Again, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go brush up on your history and pull out some of the classics in literature.
Australia has had a grip on my fascination after I watched the movie The Rescuers Down Under. This movie is a Disney movie that I've watched since I was very young. I learned about the country in world history while in school, and that only added fuel to the fire. The last little bit of fuel was when I first watched the movie Australia. All of these things have made me fall in love with this country, even though it's a country that will do everything it can to kill me one way or the other.
New Zealand is another place in the same hemisphere as Australia that I'd like to visit. Being a big reader, I've read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. When the movies all came out, I fell in love with the places they used to film Hobbiton and all of the other areas found in the hours of film. When I started looking up places to visit, I fell even more in love with this island.
The Netherlands have been a goal location because I'm somewhat of a history nerd and this is one of the most popular areas of the Vikings. Many stories and movies have been written that deal with the culture of the Vikings, whether that be finding actual sites of Viking burial grounds or like the movies How to Train a Dragon that deal with a variation of that life. Also, the landscape is beautiful.
Egypt has always held a fascination for me ever since I learned about the Pharaohs, pyramids, and ancient Egypt. Another reason I've always wanted to go here is the computer game that came out several years ago called The Clue Finders 4th Grade Adventures; Puzzle of the Pyramid. It's a computer game that helps students of that grade level (whichever it's geared towards) with different academic skills, i.e. math, reading, science, social studies, so on and so forth. These little games that help with these skills are built into a story of four kids who are in a certain country or store and they need your (the players) help to get from the beginning of the story to the end. In the 4th grade game, the kids are in Egypt and they need help solving a mystery that is emerged in Egyptology, both ancient and "present".
I've always wanted to visit certain countries ever since I first learned about them in my Social Studies classes in school. As time continued, and I learned more and more about these countries through literature and movies, my desire to see these countries for myself has grown.
London is the first place I want to go due to the fact that I have a degree in English Education. I've developed a love of The Bard and many of the other well-known British authors over the years I was in high school and college. Through all of the historical background research for my classes, I've developed a love for the history of the city and surrounding countryside.
One cannot go to England without visiting Scotland. The main reason for my desire to visit this country is to see the beautiful countryside and possibly participate in games that take place here. I also grew up watching the 1950's movie Brigadoon, which is a movie that deals with a small town in the Scottish highlands. If you've seen this movie, you know what I mean.
Ireland is another country one would logically visit if visiting the British Isles. There are customs from this country that are often thought of as the same as the Scottish customs, but they are different. St. Patrick's Day is a holiday that has an Irish background. If you don't already know the background of this holiday, now would be a good time to go and re-read that part of your history books. This history, along with other stories from history, makes up just one reason why I want to go there. The other reason is because of the influence of Irish history and stories about faeries that were told in the movie Behind the Waterfall. This is a movie that was written and produced by Feature Films for Families back in the 1990's. It's a great movie and I highly recommend that you go watch it.
One country that I want to visit has to do with music. While I was in high school, one of the music classes I took dealt with music history. While learning about one of the composers, Hayden, I learned that he was from Austria and that his patron was the king. The castle Hayden lived in/performed all of his music in is beautiful (at least from the pictures I've been able to find). This is the one of the two main reasons I've always wanted to go to to Austria. The other reason is from a movie that many people have seen: The Sound of Music. It takes place in Austria and is yet another reason to go visit Salzburg and walk the streets that Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp kids did in the movie.
Traveling the world wouldn't be the same if I didn't make a stop in Paris. Paris is known as one of the cities of love, although this love is not the same as the other. But love is not the only thing the French do in Paris. There's art, food, and many other things the French culture has to offer that one would be foolish to not make a stop there in their trip around the world.
Italy is another one of the places people think needs to make an appearance on the list of places to visit when traveling around the world. I have to agree. With all of the historical, architectural, political, musical, and literary significance that Italy has provided the rest of the world, it makes logical sense to want to visit. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you weren't paying much attention in any of your social studies classes.
Yet again, another country one has to add to the list for reasons of historical, architectural, political, and literary significance would be Greece. Again, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go brush up on your history and pull out some of the classics in literature.
Australia has had a grip on my fascination after I watched the movie The Rescuers Down Under. This movie is a Disney movie that I've watched since I was very young. I learned about the country in world history while in school, and that only added fuel to the fire. The last little bit of fuel was when I first watched the movie Australia. All of these things have made me fall in love with this country, even though it's a country that will do everything it can to kill me one way or the other.
New Zealand is another place in the same hemisphere as Australia that I'd like to visit. Being a big reader, I've read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. When the movies all came out, I fell in love with the places they used to film Hobbiton and all of the other areas found in the hours of film. When I started looking up places to visit, I fell even more in love with this island.
The Netherlands have been a goal location because I'm somewhat of a history nerd and this is one of the most popular areas of the Vikings. Many stories and movies have been written that deal with the culture of the Vikings, whether that be finding actual sites of Viking burial grounds or like the movies How to Train a Dragon that deal with a variation of that life. Also, the landscape is beautiful.
Egypt has always held a fascination for me ever since I learned about the Pharaohs, pyramids, and ancient Egypt. Another reason I've always wanted to go here is the computer game that came out several years ago called The Clue Finders 4th Grade Adventures; Puzzle of the Pyramid. It's a computer game that helps students of that grade level (whichever it's geared towards) with different academic skills, i.e. math, reading, science, social studies, so on and so forth. These little games that help with these skills are built into a story of four kids who are in a certain country or store and they need your (the players) help to get from the beginning of the story to the end. In the 4th grade game, the kids are in Egypt and they need help solving a mystery that is emerged in Egyptology, both ancient and "present".
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