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	<title>Amber Nowak</title>
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		<title>Zen and the Art of Beach-Creature Construction.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Strandbeesten’ – The Beach Creatures of Holland Somewhere in Holland stands a brand new residential area, where bright red bricks tower above stick-like trees shivering in the cold December wind. Next to it is an elongated hill – called a &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/zen-and-the-art-of-beach-creature-construction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Is it something useful, Mom?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I am not busy chasing adverbials followed by ‘noun phrase + to-infinitive clauses’ I occasionally throw the odd glance at my children, and ask myself how they’ve been in the past months. Right now, I confess,  they are a &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/is-it-something-useful-mom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Assessment of the Delft Method of Second Language Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following essay is a school assignment for a course called &#8216;History of English Language Teaching&#8216; which is given by one of my favourite teachers. Indeed, I count myself amongst the very lucky to have a teacher of this quality. &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/assessment-of-the-delft-method-second-language-teaching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Overall Emotional Experience while eating Pannetone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost Christmas. The tree is up and colourful and I play ridiculous generic Christmas music of the type you are likely to hear on the escalator in department stores. The up-side of living in Europe around Christmas is &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/overall-emotional-experience-while-eating-pannetone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Italian holiday 2011 &#8211; Part One &#8216;The Clothing Boutique&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I did when we arrived in Italy was establish that I had not brought enough clothes with me. Not that it is at all very cold there. It is that I am now nearing forty, and am &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/my-italian-holiday-2011-part-one-the-clothing-boutique/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Buddy, where&#8217;s my integration?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After ten years living in the Netherlands, I would like to consider myself &#8220;fully integrated&#8221; in society. I have even integrated into the imported Moroccan and Turkish culture which enlivens my sense of Euro-African upbeat spicyness. But that&#8217;s MY intergration. &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/hey-buddy-wheres-my-integration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro 2006) “A beautiful film!” said my friend Kees while I shrunk away into my cinema seat during a snippet of this bizarre film at our local art house cinema. A grotesque inhuman figure with eyes &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/pans-labyrinth-del-toro-2006/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How I love camping</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate just about everything about camping. It starts when you’re still at home. You pluck your house apart. You dismantle the very fibre of that cosy nest which works so well. Don’t forget the kettle. And a whisk for &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/how-i-love-camping/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>KINGS OF THE ROAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends of teenagers! Teachers! Heed my cry!: KINGS OF THE ROAD For years now the depraved recklessness of teenagers on bicycles in this flat land has resulted in the guttural gurgle of my stifled screams whenever their freewheeling path has &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/kings-of-the-road/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My English is &#8216;Substandard&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUB STANDARD According to an elderly gentleman I know, I speak sub-standard English, because I am from South Africa. Héh??!? Okay, just hold the phone. What is the statement here? It’s like this: According to this guy, along with us &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/my-english-is-substandard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trying my hand at Flash Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much can you leave out, and still tell it all? Here are four very short &#8216;Flash Fiction&#8217; style short stories. All stories were penned within 10 minutes, at least 50% was done in under 5. (That makes 2 stories, &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/trying-my-hand-at-flash-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Colour, culture and class &#8211; a brief reflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delft, 3 February 2011 Dear &#8230;, I read your article on moralizing the issue of racism and how that could lead to problems in society. It is a nicely written piece and shows true concern. Thanks to you for sharing. &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/colour-culture-and-class-a-brief-reflection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Once upon a Time There was a Snake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A SNAKE There once was a snake. He was a beautiful, fluffy, sweet snake, with large, twinkling, brown eyes. And above his twinkling brown eyes he had two large, furry brown ears, with soft, &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-snake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A poem: a letter of apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A LETTER OF APOLOGY This is just to say so sorry that I had to go away The Niger River called with its wide drifting waters fresh fish and coconut rice dinners straight from the pot Long-legged birds calling from &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/a-poem-a-letter-of-apology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>BANKSY &#8211; &#8220;Exit through the gift shop&#8221; 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...This incident may narrow down Banksy’s followers to those who defy hype-boundaries and have true appreciation of an ever-rising rebellion against the mediocrity of mainstream social indulgence....  <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/banksy-exit-through-the-gift-shop-2010/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Filmhuis Lumen recensie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANKSY ‘Exit through the gift shop’ – 2010 Opvallend is dat het in Banksy’s film niet om zijn eigen werk gaat, maar om het ‘fenomeen’ Theirry “Mr Brainwash” Guetta, een Franse cameraman die jarenlang met de elite van de iconoclastisch &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/filmhuis-lumen-recensie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Until the End of the World &#8211; Wim Wenders 1991</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until the End of the World is German film director Wim Wender’s epic road movie – which came out at the beginning of the nineties and captured my heart for all my years of intense travelling. It is one of &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/until-the-end-of-the-world-wim-wenders-1991/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Figaro</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see my boxing trainer, to fetch the empty cake tray from the birthday gathering the night before; the night on which I got so motherless. I parked my bike at the back, where a guy was standing &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/figaro/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Charcoal sketches, August 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charcoal, all 30x40cm. Date: 22 and 23 August, 2010. Late nights, nobody around except them giants with trumpets full of dreams&#8230; ACN]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence of Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Lawrence, with his woeful eyes. A hundred years ago he caught the world’s attention by wearing the traditional garb of an Arab, and unwittingly romanticising the Arab revolt with his blue eyes and fierce perseverance for the dignity for &#8230; <a href="http://www.ambernowak.org/lawrence-of-arabia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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