Saturday 17 October 2009

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Breaking news

I write this sporting a new pair of spectacles, same lenses but different frames, as on Friday just gone I got hit in the face by a soccer ball. I was playing soccer so at least it was part of the game, it did however break my glasses in to pieces and left me looking like I’d been in a fight.
It has however given me an understanding of the world of US health care and insurance and how crippling it must be for those without insurance to get basic health care and for those with health insurance how bloody annoying it is that you can’t go anywhere you’d choose.
It also highlighted just how great my colleagues are in these instances for staff and students alike.
In other news these last few weeks have seen the premiere of Mr. Smith’s teaching career with lesson plans quizzes phone calls to parents and all other teacher related things. I’ve been teaching world cultures it’s like geography old school with the young people learning region by region about the world its people and how they are linked. I find it funny that I’d be teaching, WC as at Uni is studied how regional geography, and how my daddy studied regional geography at school in the mid 1960’s.

The challenge of teaching something quite foreign, to groups of young people who are often in the class because they don’t know what else to choose, and something that I have a passion for has been great and grate. But I have trusted and hoped that my passion has been conveyed to the young people in ways that they have found enjoyable and informative.

I’ve also been teaching US history 1 something that has been a source of enlightenment and ignited a desire to learn more about history and possibly develop further this year.