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		<title>¡Pega la vuelta! &#8211; Get Outta Here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I´m running at 5:30 or 6:00 AM each day, (you didn&#8217;t think I was going to put a photo here, did you?, seriously?) I bring my iPod with me for energy and inspiration.  And these days I need it even more &#8217;cause I&#8217;m swearing off  the caffeine.  Yup!  I´m doing it!  Half a cup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Se pierde en traducción &#8211; Lost in Translation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luis, feeling the pinch of getting the new website up and running while balancing classes and filming and editing our lastest videos:  &#8221;I am having sympathy Fire Balls.&#8221; &#8220;Huh? You are having what?&#8221;  Joan tends to be rather literal at times.  &#8221;Fire balls?  What&#8217;s a Fire Ball?&#8221; &#8220;You know honey, that thing you get that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuando el romanticismo se encuentre con la realidad &#8211; When Romanticism Hits the Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have this great idea.&#8221; Luis groans but the right corner of his mouth quivers slightly upward which crinkles the corresponding eye and so though he&#8217;s wanting to communicate sternness &#8230; my ideas typically mean work for him &#8230; the quiver and the crinkle betray the fact that he loves my ideas despite the pain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There You Go &#8211; Danke Schoen &#8211; No, por favor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was all around me &#8230; I mean ALL around me &#8230; the banners and flags, the body paint, the colors, the vuvuzela, the snare drum, the battle cries, the charged and excited chatter &#8230;.. but it wasn´t until I excused myself to the ladies room that the true beauty of it all was revealed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sigue subiendo &#8211; Keep Climbing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So, where have you been?&#8221; you ask. &#8220;Well, trying to catch my balance,&#8221;  I respond.  &#8221;While Luis and I continue to work on the Free Online Video Program I have had to add a job search to the &#8216;jarana&#8217; (party)&#8221;. Yes, I&#8217;ve lost my job.  The clinic I was working for has experienced a meaningful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>¿Recuerdan esto? &#8211; Remember This You Guys?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Post Pregúntale a Joan/La historia de Andy – Ask Joan/Andy’s Story I responded to some questions that an online student of ours had written regarding a budding love affair upon which she was embarking.  She&#8217;s a Canadian and he is a Peruvian and they met through an online chat language exchange site thingy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacasarojas.com/joanrojasblog/?p=2219</link>
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		<title>¿Estás hablando conmigo?  &#8211;  Are You Talking to Me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has become so automatic that we don´t often realize that we have a running dialog going on in our heads at all times.  It´s so a part of us that it&#8217;s often happening at a pre-verbal level.  Yes, you heard me right!  A pre-verbal dialog!  Think about it for a moment.  Just a second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo recuerdo cuando me asustó &#8230; &#8211; I Remember When it Scared Me &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember when it scared me to find myself in a group of Spanish speakers.  The people speaking looked nice enough, non-threatening enough, for the most part they were even shorter than me which gave me that unusual feeling of physical advantage &#8230;. should I need it &#8230; but I remember how unsettled I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subjunctive Land and Other Marital Muddles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Luis and I are in the throws (visualize tandem seizures) of teaching the Subjunctive tense in our Free Video Classes right now &#8230; and man! &#8230; it&#8217;s been an interesting process. Not to belabor a point that those of you viewing our videos already have heard me say about a half a million times, but as English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gracias por tu voto/reflexiónes en comunidad &#8211; Thank You for Your Vote/Reflections on Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s May 7th and we are in a full out &#8216;get out the vote&#8217; campaign in our candidacy for a Grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project.  We beg your indulgence as we do what we can to remind folks to vote every day through May 31st for our project &#8230; www.refresheverything.com/firstresponders &#8230; but this is [...]]]></description>
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