Back to the grind soon

[lunadelcorvo]

Well, it's one more day and a wakeup before I'm back in the classroom. I can't complain - I got a full extra week on account of the snow, which I will never turn down. It makes going back seem so surreal though.

It will be a day of reteaching expectations (how to be a student as opposed to a feral meerkat), and then it's on to Mongols, then China, then the Middle Ages. I think for China, we will do the blue pottery art project again, and for the Middle Ages, I'm thinking of having them make manuscript pages... I've done it in a one-week, half-day summer camp, so maybe? No calligraphy pens, though! I'm not that brave!

For now, though, one more lazy, snowy Sunday ahead... Time for cocoa, I think.

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[lunadelcorvo]

I understand, actually - I had a very good friend who taught one-on-one remotely, though to both kids and adults. And my ex went (still goes, just now sans me) to Panama City to teach for the university for about a month every summer, and 2 or 3 weeks in December. Seasons in the tropics must feel...odd? I mean I suppose if it's what you're used to, then the wildly changing climate we have would feel distinctly wrong, too, so it's all about perspective. it's funny that you mention the passing of time, though. One of the things I love about my academic life is that it runs with the seasons. I can't even imagine having every day, every week the same, when the days lengthen and shorten, or maybe doubly so if they don't! Even living in California felt off-key to me.

Anyway, ridiculously verbose ramblings aside, your teaching set-up sounds both freeing and kind of a headache!

[glowingfish]

ridiculously verbose rambling is why I came back here! :)

Yes, my schedule is very much freeing, and also sometimes a headache. And probably not long term financially feasible.

[lunadelcorvo]

You're definitely in the right place then!

I TOTALLY understand the lack of financial sustainability and stability. I would SO much rather be teaching Dante and Orwell and Machiavelli to undergraduates, or game theory to grad students, but sadly, the utility company does not accept 'intellectual satisfaction' as currency.