The lesson: wait until everyone is fed, has changed clothes and had some private time.
The following excerpts from her diary cover March to June, 1952, when Gallant was living hand to mouth in Spain, giving English lessons and anxiously waiting for payment for her New Yorker stories to arrive via her literary agent, Jacques Chambrun.
[Brooklyn Paper] A Brooklyn woman has the summer activity you've been waiting for: lessons on how to mummify your pets.
I believe the lessons are out there waiting to be found, and waiting inside me to be found as well.
There are numerous lessons sprinkled throughout Zinter's remarkable story of waiting and achieving, lessons on persistence, patience, humility, optimism, realism and, then, more optimism.
I tried to give the children an etiquette lesson while we were waiting at King's Cross on December 30th.
The inevitable tough lessons, too, can wait.
Lessons about global poverty were waiting, but so were his sisters' chapattis.
Sure, you can take a break to take the kid to Boy Scouts or dance lessons, but the work is waiting to be done late at night or early in the morning.
Teaching At a classroom level, many of you will be surprised to hear that inspectors do not expect to see a lesson plan, but wait for it; expect to see a well-planned lesson that enables all pupils to learn and make progress.
