it's break time on day 3 of my summer master's program.
things i have learned this week:
- i procrastinate with the best of them
- there is a good reason i don't have tv at home
- i honestly love school (nerdy i know)
i am taking 2 courses - a philosophy of music education and a jazz pedagogy.
the philosophy course has 8 students and we sit around a large table and just discuss philosophy and how does that impact what we do... it is overwhelmingly theoretical which is fun to be hoity toity and sit around discussing music education - it seems like an odd sort of luxury. at some point this afternoon i have to present on the history of how music education has been justified in the united states - good thing creating prezis brings me great joy - hopefully it all works.
the jazz course is much more practical - i spent a good portion of yesterday sitting at a piano plunking out the melody he was playing - if i can duplicate this in my classroom it will be fantastic because i quite enjoy it and know that some of the kids will too.
i have pretty much done school all day and returned home to study/read/create presentations all night. so much for hanging out with the london crowd while i'm here --- we went to the beach on monday and i spent the whole time on a blanket under an umbrella doing course readings instead of swimming or playing football or whatever...
tonight i'm moving across town and going to pub (yay!!! i miss pub night) and tomorrow i'm hitting up stratford to see 42nd street (with christina maybe - otherwise by myself...) in the afternoon and then i'm hitting up the matchmaker with momma at night... tuesday i'm heading to see wanderlust with erin, sandra, and kirsten AND kimberley and i saw much ado about nothing in stratford a couple weekends ago-- gotta love stratford's play on tickets. i'm excited for the brief break tomorrow and experiencing different culture where i get to be passive.
UPDATE: going to see Henry V in stratford with hannah on saturday (for free)... i am so cultured... now if i could just find time to do my homework life would be great...
my prof just mentioned labrador... perhaps i should start re-focussing....
later!
things i have learned this week:
- i procrastinate with the best of them
- there is a good reason i don't have tv at home
- i honestly love school (nerdy i know)
i am taking 2 courses - a philosophy of music education and a jazz pedagogy.
the philosophy course has 8 students and we sit around a large table and just discuss philosophy and how does that impact what we do... it is overwhelmingly theoretical which is fun to be hoity toity and sit around discussing music education - it seems like an odd sort of luxury. at some point this afternoon i have to present on the history of how music education has been justified in the united states - good thing creating prezis brings me great joy - hopefully it all works.
the jazz course is much more practical - i spent a good portion of yesterday sitting at a piano plunking out the melody he was playing - if i can duplicate this in my classroom it will be fantastic because i quite enjoy it and know that some of the kids will too.
i have pretty much done school all day and returned home to study/read/create presentations all night. so much for hanging out with the london crowd while i'm here --- we went to the beach on monday and i spent the whole time on a blanket under an umbrella doing course readings instead of swimming or playing football or whatever...
tonight i'm moving across town and going to pub (yay!!! i miss pub night) and tomorrow i'm hitting up stratford to see 42nd street (with christina maybe - otherwise by myself...) in the afternoon and then i'm hitting up the matchmaker with momma at night... tuesday i'm heading to see wanderlust with erin, sandra, and kirsten AND kimberley and i saw much ado about nothing in stratford a couple weekends ago-- gotta love stratford's play on tickets. i'm excited for the brief break tomorrow and experiencing different culture where i get to be passive.
UPDATE: going to see Henry V in stratford with hannah on saturday (for free)... i am so cultured... now if i could just find time to do my homework life would be great...
my prof just mentioned labrador... perhaps i should start re-focussing....
later!
2 comments:
Yeah, I miss having hoity toity philosophical discussions.... enjoy!
life sounds pretty good these days! enjoy! probably quite lovely for you to have a change of pace. i think it would be fun to take some classes at western again.. a blast from the past :)
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