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You have the type of personality that people either love or hate.
You're opinionated, dramatic, intense, and very outspoken.
And some people can't get enough of you - they're totally addicted.
Others, well, they wish you were a little more reserved.

Your strength: Your flair

Your weakness: If you think it, you say it

Your power color: Scarlet red

Your power symbol: Inverted triangle

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Where were you on Sept 11,2001 when the planes hit the towers? Do you remember, as its sad how many people don't!

NYC      and also Somerset County, PA.

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Abigayle:  It was my first day training for Quo Vadis, so I was inside the Cathedral of Learning.  The other girl training said WTC had been hit, and I couldn't believe it until the radio was turned on.  We just huddled around the radio listening to reports, but the static on the radio made us miss the news of the second hit at first.  I thought I heard the word Pittsburgh through the static...but dismissed it until reports of the plane going down near PGH.  I actually went to my first class, where the people around me hadn't heard about the towers.  I probably scared them....but all I could think to say was something like "we're going to die."  The rest of the day was spent jumping everytime I heard a plane in the air (Pgh was one of the few airports allowed to receive flights already in the air).  One odd incident:  as I watched the tower falling (again), I opened my fortune cookie and it told me, "You will hear pleasant news."  I had nothing to do but laugh.

Even if you just remember some simple conversation from a high school class, you can sign up for this registry and help a prospective tester develop the skills to fairly rate speakers.  I have signed up for Portuguese and Spanish, but they have over 65 languages which need people of all (seriously, ALL) levels to help train new testers.

All you do is get a phone call (or if it's convenient, go somewhere) and have a short conversation (15-40 minutes) with a tester in the target language.  They'll record your conversation and use it for training.  I've viewed an example interview (about 20 minutes for the intermediate level speaker) and my own interview was about 30 minutes (for an advanced level speaker).  Even though they did test my level and the level of the example interview, it was all very friendly and at no point was there any pressure to do better or speak more than you wanted to.

I say it's easy money if you have any level at all of another language...plus you'll be helping people like me be more consistent and fair graders.  Anyone who's ever thought they were graded unfairly should love that!

Just click here or on the heading below.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) has launched a new initiative, the Language Learner Registry (LLR), an on-line registry of language learners - all languages - all levels of proficiency. This registry is part of the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Tester Training program. Registry members are paid $25 each time they are interviewed for a practice test by a Tester Trainee during a Tester Training Workshop. Interested individuals will register themselves into the Language Learner Registry, will be responsible for updating their contact information if that changes, and will be communicated with directly when practice tests need to be scheduled in their language.

If anyone would like to buy a washer and dryer, or a table set, or just want to look at what's available, check out this website.  This woman and her husband and son are moving to Nicaragua and obviously need to get rid of all their bulky stuff NOW!  So there are good deals.

P.S.  I have dibs on the BarcaLounger.