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A lovely day in London today, brightened by seeing old friends and by meeting new people who enjoyed my presentation, and also by this chap on the Tube who kept smiling and bantering in spite of everyone trying to avoid eye contact. 

And these pics in Metro made me smile too.

If you want a smile, here's a link to a video of me in full flow being me ;)

https://twitter.com/joedale/status/449517351915229184

Glad to get home it has to be said - so tired!

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Last night...

today and ...

back at home.

A wonderful weekend and a beautiful sunset over the Thames as I nipped across London on the way home. Bus beats Tube (no vertigo issues!)

I am utterly cream crackered now though!

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On Monday I smiled because:
Y3 were amused by my collection of Tshirts worn in RE to demonstrate how what we wear shows belonging.
One of my Y5s who has mobility issues really got into the Spanish lesson and was having a whale of a time punching syllables and doing actions.
And this image!

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Working on a Saturday? Well, not really working but spending Saturday in a school, taking part in a "show and tell" for language teachers from across the country. Lots of fun was had, and it was great to see friends again - and make new ones. My mini talks (on year3 writing stories in Spanish using 2D shapes and the quickest demo of BookCreator app ever) went down really well and although I didn't win the raffle, I did come home with rather a lot of Danish pastries (not all for me!)

Great day and lots of smiles - once I arrived at the correct school!

Loving the 'MFL-Twitter-teacher selfie' taken by Fiona. Loving the MFLTwitterati - not all in the picture!

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Things that made me smile today -

Looking through photos of Switzerland in 2003 - "Jude and the apple" is an all time classic
Showing Jude how to make a Wordle  - was worth the persuasion as he liked it as did his French teacher although she wasn't sure about his inclusion of Klingon as a language!
Isaac and Jude volunteering to help at Holiday Club without any prompting.
Another run - in the sunshine - longer than the last and still no ill effects.
A wave of people offering to vouch for my speaking skills - made me feel all warm inside!
And John's picture of me at Library of Birmingham - I don't look too bad!

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So many smiles that I lost count! Edited highlights!

Knobs. Manx knobs to be precise, courtesy of Rachel aka @lancslassrach. Oh how we laughed! And I managed to get the leftovers. Did you know that knobs can be grumpy or fruity?

I love my MFL friends - the so called #mfltwitterati. Miss them so much but they're only ever a tweet away. Here are just a few of them - John, Alex, Eleanor and Jackie - with me modelling our lovely T-shirts, organised by Eleanor. Someone took a photograph of all of us in our Tshirts but has yet to share it.

Singing Bohemian Rhapsody in French Spanish and German - oh, and English! - with Simone, Isabelle, Jen and Rachel. Love singing and love languages so very happy!

Then there was singing El Pollito Pío, a little portion of which was captured by Simone here and everyone loved their Toblerone.

And my boys sent me a picture of this from the widow at Vollenweider ;)

Smiles in other languages 

Well, not quite smile today as I can't find that but here's 'smiling' in Manx in honour of the knobs ;o) - mongey.

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Today is a 'looks like a smile' as well as something that made me smile! This is the image from the top of the 50€ voucher I received for providing 'Featured resource' for this week on The Language Point. Now I'm smiling as I surf Amazon.de working out what to buy!

Things I heard today that made me smiday
Lots of likes for Jude's trumpet playing.
Skiing lessons are booked for Schipause.
Isaac and Jude talking about inflatable guitars.

Smile in other languages
In Siberian Yupik - Nuiingiighaquq