Geography Anyone?

Want to test your knowledge of middle eastern geography? Teachers can use this interactive tool in their classrooms. I won't say how many I got right but you can be sure that I'll be going back to this site and using it as a personal learning tool.


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Direct link to the geography game is here: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html 
Click and drag country names to map outlines. Good luck!











Who's Gonna Be My Valentine?

A Valentine gift for you. Share with those you love.




© Song and lyrics by Georgie Jessup. Video by Bonnie Schupp with contributions from:
Eileen Browning, Lee Rowley, iStockphoto, Dorrett Oosterhoff, Marilyn Johnston, Valerie Aldridge, Farzad Khosrownia

Learn more about Georgie Jessup.

Lyrics:
[chorus]
Who's gonna be my Valentine? Who's gonna watch my beauty shine?
I'll shine right through your walls of steel.
I'll shine until I make you feel a little more than a moment in time.
Who's gonna be my Valentine?

[verse]
Who's gonna get me through this night?
Who's gonna kiss and hold me tight?
Young lovers are watching the same moon as I.
As stars will fall my wishes rise!

[verse]
Someone is smiling as I sing this song.
Are they wishing and hoping and singing along?
Are they walking a tightrope up on a high wire?
Are they looking like me and stoking the fire?

[repeat chorus]

[verse]
Is there anybody out there? Pick up the phone.
Call on my neighbor. Tell them I'm home.
Tell them I love them and I wish them kind.
I'm searching the cosmos for my Valentine!


Congratulations to the Egyptian People




(English translation)


Sound of Freedom

i went to the streets and said i will not come back
and with my blood i wrote in every street
we made those who did not hear us listen
and all barriers were broken
our weapon was our dreams
and tomorrow is clear ahead of us
we've been waiting a long time
searching but not finding our place

in every street in my country
the voice of freedom is calling
in every street in my country
the voice of freedom is calling

we put our heads to the sky
and our hunger no longer mattered
most important is our right
and we write our history with our blood
if you were one of us
stop talking and telling us
to walk away and abandon our dream
stop saying "i"

in every street in my country
the voice of freedom is calling
in every street in my country
the voice of freedom is calling

my life in Egypt is dark and within it ... it is spread through change, it breaks the frames, the salt of its beautiful youth turned its autumn spring, they accomplished a miracle, the brought the dead from death, kill me, my food will not will not bring your country again, with my blood i write another life for my country, my blood gave spring its green color, i smile from happiness ...

in every street in my country
the voice of freedom is calling
in every street in my country
the voice of freedom is calling