Sigh... The break was relaxing, but not long enough. (Although I must admit towards the end I was getting restless and bored from spending to much time be myself.) I spent Christmas with my cousins from my mom's side for the first time because they moved last summer from New York to Washington state! Then my family went to Vancouver Island to spend New Years with my dad's family. That was different from normal (higher energy but less relaxing) because my dad's cousin and his wife also stayed at my grandparents' at the same time.
I'm working in the computer lab again this semester and right now I am doing my first shift. It goes from 9-11am. Right now there is no one here. Two people came but they left again. In addition to working in the lab I am going to be "teaching" a tutorial for Calculus II. I haven't talked to the professor yet, but I've been told that entails about an hour of prep and an hour of teaching/being available to help per week. The second hour includes going over three or four problems on the overhead similar to the ones that they have for homework and then being available to answer questions. It will definitely be higher pressure than marking but should be good teaching experience. Hopefully I'll get used to it and be able to relax.
I've gone to all my classes except rockclimbing and most of them look okay. All of them except math include essays :(. Most also include copious amounts of reading. The first one I went to was philosophy (taught by the husband of one of my previous English profs). It looks like that class will include lots of discussion. Education 200 (Principles of Teaching and Learning) looks like a cross between both my classes last semester: lots of reading from the textbook (Educ 211), reading articles (Educ 203 and 211), presenting mini-lessons (Educ 203), and writing essays (Educ 203). Hopefully the content will be new. In Phys 220 (Mechanics) we had a short introduction, then started right in on dimensional analysis. After chapel I had my first dama (Theatre for Children) class. That class promises to be different from the other ones I've taken so far, including adapting a story for readers theatre and puppets, using drama in the classroom, making masks, attending childrens plays, writing an annotated bibliography on ten children's plays, and writing a children's play as a final project. The last class I have taken so far is Linear Algebra. To my dismay, the professor for the class changed from Dr. Atkins (who I had for Calc I and III and can follow his teaching fairly easily) to Dr. Ariel (who I had for C++ and find is disorganized and confusing). Hopefully the textbook will be clear enough that I can figure out what I'm supposed to do. I have my first rockclimbing class on Saturday! We probably won't do much, but you never know.
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Megan, this is Aunt Anna! I've never written anything on Internet before like this!
Actually, that isn't quite true, as at the moment I am in MNL working on archiving of BGN and NSL schools - photos - so that is something similar to this!
I just read your post and you said you have to write a children's play! You are well ahead with that, as you wrote two plays when you were a child! Remember 'Once Upon a Jungle' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' (if that was its title?)
I enjoyed Faith Graduation last week - Alyssa Machlan, Cayla Johnson, Kristy Douglas and Paul Carress all graduated as well as Elisabeth Stromme from NSL ...
From my calculations, Jesse graduated last year? I missed that Grad. though had planned to get to it ...
Enough for now, as I should be working on the rest of my perpetually over-flowing Inbox!!
I left out a bit of punctuation in my previous comment, but perhaps I'm excused at this age ...
Hi Aunt Anna! That's fun that this is sort of a new experience for you! I never really thought of that!
Are you archiving the photos on the internet somewhere? Can just anyone see them?
It's funny that you commented on this post. It's a few years old now and I'd forgotten I'd written a children's play :) . I don't think it was all that good, but the course was a lot of fun. We got to make shadow puppets and marionettes and masks and learn how to read stories and all sorts of stuff like that which is different from the stuff I normally do in my classes.
Wow, so many people have graduated! It's hard to imagine them as teenagers; I still tend to think of them as the little kids I knew although I have connected with a few of them on facebook.
Yes, Jesse did graduate last year. Too bad you missed it! He just finished his first year at Trinity studying math and computing.
Have fun answering you emails!
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