feels strange that i haven't been called back to the office and that my email flow is at a historic low. everyone's stuck in the famed war-room that is the ECR, or looking frantically for examples, or proof-reading stacks and stacks of printed matter. wonder whether it matters that X-mini was already reported in today's newspapers, 1 day before D-day.
savouring the calm before the storm - feel a little guilty for not being there when the rest of the team is slogging it out, but am honestly thankful! it's too much when i actually expect to work weekends.
is it?
no matter. i'm going to treasure this [unconsumed] weekend. :)
mm. today's post will be a narrative one, since i've already started along this vein.
i just started this weekly or fortnightly (not decided yet) session with my brother where instead of me teaching him stuff (which i can't anymore woohoo since i didn't take geog, chem, or bio at A levels) he's teaching me what he learnt. hopefully this way it'll be a useful form of revision for him as well as a way for him to keep track of what he know and doesn't. eventually there'll be a phasing out i guess - cos this form of learning does take more time compared to if he's studying on his own - but for now i'm actually quite enjoying hearing him talk about monosaccharides and disaccharides, and the theory of continental drift. i can't wait for human geog to start.
interestingly enough he also brought up his friend's opinion of the theory of continental drift - that it was untrue, and that it was God who made the continents where they are today.
me: so is there a theory that kinda argues against the theory of continental drift?
brother: yea..
me: oh, really? so this alternative theory says that the earth wasn't one big mass of land millions of years ago? what theory is that?
brother: um, it's theological...
i laughed.
since pam came home and started work i've been thinking more and more about education and what needs to be done for kids in general. i guess it's a good base for parenting, eventually, haha. but mm. education policy is...fraught with uncertainty i think. customised learning, or standardised? academic and intellectual development, or emotional learning? education as a means to a job, or education as a foundation for the lessons of life?
all, everything, or - here's a scary thought - none?
i remarked to a colleague sometime back "i wish sometimes my job was a little less cerebral..."
and his immediate retort was "hah you're in the wrong job girl.."
i remembered this comment i made when pam asked me to watch the video (posted just yesterday), saying that she thought i would enjoy it very much. all this talk with pam recently about how her kids in school are doing etc and also the numerous experiences with my brother made me wonder if i could actually commit to a lifetime as an educator. it's an interesting thought - i have the utmost respect for teachers, and think a good teacher could really make a world of a difference to the kids he/she teaches.
i wonder if i could do it.
i'd be dealing with very very very different problems...
but somehow - problems that seem a lot more real.
*grin*
on another note - i had a great time at salsa yesterday, even though attendance was dismal. one good turn is enough to make me smile, even if most of the class was kinda slow. but i can't wait for the wednesday class again, especially since a new level is starting.
i think i want to keep doing this, for sure. yay.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes...
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