Song of the Day §

Artist: Willy Mason
Song: Oxygen

Lyrics:

I wanna be better than oxygen
So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees
I wanna speak louder than Ritalin
For all the children who think that they've got a disease
I wanna be cooler than t.v.
For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be

We can be stronger than bombs
If you're singing along and you know that you really believe
We can be richer than industry
As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
We can speak louder than ignorance
Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet.


On and on, and on, and on it goes
The world it just keeps spinning
Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe
So close my eyes and start again anew.


I wanna see through all the lies of society
To the reality, happiness is at stake
I wanna hold up my head with dignity
Proud of a life where to give means more than to take
I wan't to live beyond the modern mentality
Where paper is all that you're really taught to create
Do you remember the forgotten America?
Justice, equality, freedom to every race?

Just need to get past all the lies and hypocrisy
Make up and hair to the truth behind every face
That look around to all the people you see,
How many of them are happy and free?

I know it sounds like a dream
But it's the only thing that can get me to sleep at night
I know it's hard to believe
But it's easy to see that something here isn't right
I know the future looks dark
But it's there that the kids of today must carry the light.


On and on, and on, and on it goes
The world it just keeps spinning
Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe
So close my eyes and start again anew.


If i'm afraid to catch a dream
I weave your baskets and I'll float them down the river stream
Each one i weave with words i speak to carry love to your relief.

I wanna be better than oxygen
So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees
I wanna speak louder than Ritalin
For all the children who think that they've got a disease
I wanna be cooler than t.v.
For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be
We can be stronger than bombs
If you're singing along and you know that you really believe
We can be richer than industry
As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
We can speak louder than ignorance
Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet.


On and on, and on, and on it goes
The world it just keeps spinning
Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe
So close my eyes and start again anew

Update...

Estimado auxiliar
Lamento comunicarte que no nos permiten renovarte por 3º año consecutivo.
Si deseas seguir trabajando como auxiliar en Madrid, puedes solicitar trabajar en Centros Concertados bilingües que no ponen esta limitación del tiempo.
Enviad un correo a esta dirección bicucetam@ucetam.es con vuestro cv en el que expliquéis que habéis trabajado como auxiliares en los centros públicos de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Lo siento mucho.
Un abrazo

María José Martínez de Lis
Asesor Técnico Docente
Consejería de Educación
mariajose.martinezdelis@madrid.org
91 720 11 88

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For anyone who doesn't know Spanish who might be reading this, here's the gist:

I sent in my application to renew my position as an ''Auxiliar de Conversacion'' for next year to have it as an option. Two days ago I received this e-mail from the Ministerio de Educacion informing me that I cannot renew for a third year, even though it would only be my second year in the Comunidad de Madrid.

What I will be doing next year and where is still up in the air, but this decision has been made for me, it seems. I will NOT be working as a conversational assitant in Spain next year. (I pretty much had already decided the same thing for my own reasons, but now it's official. Any other suggestions for what to do with my life? ;)


Also, Happy St Patrick's Day!

Clip of info from the Internet: How many Americans have passports by state

http://blog.cgpgrey.com/how-many-americans-have-a-passport-the-percentages-state-by-state/



"One of the things I’ve often heard while living in the European Union is the meme that only 10% of Americans own a passport. This assertion is usually followed by the quazi-urban legend that George W. Bush never had a passport before becoming president. This I’ve never been able to prove or disprove any satisfaction Which, it turns out, is not true.

Such a low number wouldn’t have surprised me. After all, the United States is nearly thrice the size of the EU and borders only two foreign countries, while the EU is made of 27 countries and – depending on how you want to count them – borders another 19.

I wondered aloud about this in my previous post, ‘Work in Progress: The United States Explained‘ and a commentor, Alison, was nice enough to bring this data set about passports from the ever-awesome data.gov to my attention."