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Astronomer · 11-18-2010, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Congrats, Lateralus, on your new job!

Our local school has a wonderful young kindergarten teacher...so sweet and kind and fun. She really makes the entrance to the school experience a good one. I feel you are lucky to get a class of young kids, because you can make a such a positive difference in their lives!

And they are pretty small, so at least when they get out of control they can't hurt anyone...much.

Just make sure they don't get wild with those pencils! When I helped in a 1st grade class, pencils and eyes being poked out were a constant fear for me. You turn your back and the next moment there's a pencil sword fight going on! GAA!!!

I hope you'll have an aide, because otherwise I can see how you could get run ragged with a bunch of little kids often wanting to do their own thing. After helping out, I could see why class size matters. The teacher I was helping said it would be impossible to do the job without volunteers to help, because you have to spend individual time with children evaluating their progress, which means you can't easily watch the whole class that dissolves quickly into chaos without supervision.

Thanks Vegangelica!

Yeah, I agree with this all 100%! I don't think I'll have an aide, but class sizes at the school are around 20 pupils per class so that is pretty fantastic! And there'll be other Prep teachers nearby if I ever need help, plus I'd always welcome parents into the classroom if they wanted to get involved! But yes it is really hard spending enough time with each children

They all have very specific and individual learning needs! But like you said it'll be great having those little minds to mold and I'm looking forward to it. (Even if I'm still completely terrified!) Thanks again!

And thank you also, mojo!

MoonlitSunshine · 11-19-2010, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Thanks Vegangelica!

Yeah, I agree with this all 100%! I don't think I'll have an aide, but class sizes at the school are around 20 pupils per class so that is pretty fantastic! And there'll be other Prep teachers nearby if I ever need help, plus I'd always welcome parents into the classroom if they wanted to get involved! But yes it is really hard spending enough time with each children

They all have very specific and individual learning needs! But like you said it'll be great having those little minds to mold and I'm looking forward to it. (Even if I'm still completely terrified!) Thanks again!

And thank you also, mojo!

I'm gonna have a day or so of placement a week in a school somewhere in dublin helping a maths teacher next term, as part of a teaching maths module of my degree. I have a feeling that the experience may make or break my plans of teaching it at some point in my life :P

Astronomer · 11-19-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine

I'm gonna have a day or so of placement a week in a school somewhere in dublin helping a maths teacher next term, as part of a teaching maths module of my degree. I have a feeling that the experience may make or break my plans of teaching it at some point in my life :P

No doubt it will, after our very first placement 4 years ago about half of the course dropped out, lol.

ThePhanastasio · 11-19-2010, 09:50 PM

I realized that I have a sad social life today. I apparently left my billfold (with my ID and money inside) in my friend Matt's car on Sunday night, and he had to call me today to see if I was ever going to realize that my billfold was missing.

I haven't really left the house for anything (except Harry Potter last night, but I already had my ticket for that) since then.

Egad.

Kaimon · 11-19-2010, 09:56 PM

Found my 6th grade teacher's music website.

That was really the only slightly interesting thing that happened today.

MoonlitSunshine · 11-20-2010, 07:22 AM

Right, so I think this needs some backstory, as it just occurred to me that it is actually pertinent.

Yesterday, the Maths Dept in my College (/Uni, depending on where you're from) held a reception for the Freshers in Maths and Theoretical Physics in the Maths Society room. As there were three of us in the room before it started, we helped them set up the ridiculous spread of food and wine, and as a result got to stay and eat it when the freshers and the lecturers (eventually) arrived. As it happened, only like, 5 of the freshers turned up, so we got quite a lot of food :P During the reception, I had two conversations which obviously were stuck in my head for some reason.

One was with a guy in 3rd year who it turned out had met my sister in the Netherlands that summer (bit of a wtf that one, still have no idea how it happened), and she had told him that I was studying in the same college as him, and while we had talked a number of times before then, he had only just made the connection.

The other one was about how bleeding to death is not as uncommon a way to die as people might think, especially when murder is involved, seeing as one if much more likely to have a major blood path damaged when stabbed or shot then a critical organ hit.

I had a very odd dream last night (not that this is an uncommon occurrence).

I was a bodyguard for a man of dubious profession in what looked like a town from a wild west film. The man had one other bodyguard, who was the guy who had met my sister, and we were both dressed in suits (damned if I know why), one which I distinctly remember putting on in a dream I had had earlier on in the night, and also carrying guns, cause you know, bodyguards. Turns out the guy we're protecting is a bit of a slimy prat, but he's clever and he practically owns the town we're in. We walk into a bar, and for some reason one of the (few :P) girls in my maths class is sitting at a table in there. So I go over and start talking to her, at which point we all notice that there are a lot of people outside running towards some disturbance we can't see. The guy and the other bodyguard get up, tell me to stay there, and go and see what it is.

So I'm talking to this girl (and someone else I think). She's talking about how she pronounces the word "Mars" oddly (yeah, I try not to dwell on what actually goes on in my head), when suddenly I start feeling a sense of Déja Vu. I've seen this place before, but it was broken up, trashed after a fight... At this moment, I notice a very angry, thuggish looking brute walking very purposefully towards the bar, with a gun in his hand. I check my gun, and realise that it's not loaded. The man reaches the bar, kicks in a window, and starts firing at me. Screaming ensues, and I leapt for cover in the corner or the room. At which point the doublecrossing bartender takes out a shotgun and starts unloading at me (What a ****! Someone else trashes up his bar, and he shoots at me) While he's keeping me pinned, the first guy has come up behind me and shoots me in the shoulder through the window. I fall to the floor, figuring he won't stop till I'm dead, and lie still. In the corner of my mind, I hear someone say "I've seen people die from bleeding out of a wound like that", and then I woke up.

I'm a little bit pissed that I didn't get to find out what happened next :/

Kaimon · 11-20-2010, 09:20 PM

Got my new glasses, went to the library, checked out 3 albums and a Sherlock stories collection, checked some videos of Jovino Santos (if you don't know him, he's a brazillian jazz pianist/composer, and an amazing one at that) and found my viola teacher and the quartet he's part of playing with him, freaked out for the next 15 minutes, and now I'm waiting for a friend to pick me up.

TheFolkslave · 11-20-2010, 10:19 PM

My girlfriend is out of town for the weekend and we have only lived in this town for a of couple months so I don't have that many friends yet so I've been alone at our appartment. It's been really boring and lonely. Thankfully she's coming back today

Alfred · 11-20-2010, 11:20 PM

Had a good day, went to a friend's birthday party, grade one all over again. We went out to Crabby Joe's for supper, I got ripped off a buck or two by the restuarant, then we went back to her place and chilled in the hot tub.

Laces Out Dan! · 11-21-2010, 12:21 AM

About to hit the sack pretty quick here. Up bright and early at 4 to head up island for some hunting at sunrise. Hopefully bag a couple...my buddy nabbed a big 3 point from this spot last season. High hopes.

11-20-2010, 07:22 AM	#13866 (permalink)
MoonlitSunshine Dat's Der Bunny! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 1,088	Right, so I think this needs some backstory, as it just occurred to me that it is actually pertinent. Yesterday, the Maths Dept in my College (/Uni, depending on where you're from) held a reception for the Freshers in Maths and Theoretical Physics in the Maths Society room. As there were three of us in the room before it started, we helped them set up the ridiculous spread of food and wine, and as a result got to stay and eat it when the freshers and the lecturers (eventually) arrived. As it happened, only like, 5 of the freshers turned up, so we got quite a lot of food :P During the reception, I had two conversations which obviously were stuck in my head for some reason. One was with a guy in 3rd year who it turned out had met my sister in the Netherlands that summer (bit of a wtf that one, still have no idea how it happened), and she had told him that I was studying in the same college as him, and while we had talked a number of times before then, he had only just made the connection. The other one was about how bleeding to death is not as uncommon a way to die as people might think, especially when murder is involved, seeing as one if much more likely to have a major blood path damaged when stabbed or shot then a critical organ hit. I had a very odd dream last night (not that this is an uncommon occurrence). I was a bodyguard for a man of dubious profession in what looked like a town from a wild west film. The man had one other bodyguard, who was the guy who had met my sister, and we were both dressed in suits (damned if I know why), one which I distinctly remember putting on in a dream I had had earlier on in the night, and also carrying guns, cause you know, bodyguards. Turns out the guy we're protecting is a bit of a slimy prat, but he's clever and he practically owns the town we're in. We walk into a bar, and for some reason one of the (few :P) girls in my maths class is sitting at a table in there. So I go over and start talking to her, at which point we all notice that there are a lot of people outside running towards some disturbance we can't see. The guy and the other bodyguard get up, tell me to stay there, and go and see what it is. So I'm talking to this girl (and someone else I think). She's talking about how she pronounces the word "Mars" oddly (yeah, I try not to dwell on what actually goes on in my head), when suddenly I start feeling a sense of Déja Vu. I've seen this place before, but it was broken up, trashed after a fight... At this moment, I notice a very angry, thuggish looking brute walking very purposefully towards the bar, with a gun in his hand. I check my gun, and realise that it's not loaded. The man reaches the bar, kicks in a window, and starts firing at me. Screaming ensues, and I leapt for cover in the corner or the room. At which point the doublecrossing bartender takes out a shotgun and starts unloading at me (What a **! Someone else trashes up his bar, and he shoots at me) While he's keeping me pinned, the first guy has come up behind me and shoots me in the shoulder through the window. I fall to the floor, figuring he won't stop till I'm dead, and lie still. In the corner of my mind, I hear someone say "I've seen people die from bleeding out of a wound like that", and then I woke up. I'm a little bit pissed that I didn't get to find out what happened next :/ __________________ "I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?"** - Arthur Dent

11-20-2010, 10:19 PM	#13868 (permalink)
TheFolkslave Music Addict Join Date: May 2010 Location: Finland Posts: 458	My girlfriend is out of town for the weekend and we have only lived in this town for a of couple months so I don't have that many friends yet so I've been alone at our appartment. It's been really boring and lonely. Thankfully she's coming back today __________________ My Last.Fm Well I come from the old time baby, where all the kids are crazy.

11-20-2010, 11:20 PM	#13869 (permalink)
Alfred one big soul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 5,096	Had a good day, went to a friend's birthday party, grade one all over again. We went out to Crabby Joe's for supper, I got ripped off a buck or two by the restuarant, then we went back to her place and chilled in the hot tub. __________________ LAST.FM / VINYL COLLECTION / RYM

11-21-2010, 12:21 AM	#13870 (permalink)
Laces Out Dan! I love Puck Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: British Columbia Posts: 4,614	About to hit the sack pretty quick here. Up bright and early at 4 to head up island for some hunting at sunrise. Hopefully bag a couple...my buddy nabbed a big 3 point from this spot last season. High hopes. __________________ We are entirely smooth, We admit to the truth, We are the best at what we do.

11-19-2010, 09:50 PM	#13864 (permalink)
ThePhanastasio Killed Laura Palmer Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Ashland, KY Posts: 1,679	I realized that I have a sad social life today. I apparently left my billfold (with my ID and money inside) in my friend Matt's car on Sunday night, and he had to call me today to see if I was ever going to realize that my billfold was missing. I haven't really left the house for anything (except Harry Potter last night, but I already had my ticket for that) since then. Egad.

11-19-2010, 09:56 PM	#13865 (permalink)
Kaimon Talking Cactus Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Freebirds Posts: 201	Found my 6th grade teacher's music website. That was really the only slightly interesting thing that happened today.

11-20-2010, 09:20 PM	#13867 (permalink)
Kaimon Talking Cactus Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Freebirds Posts: 201	Got my new glasses, went to the library, checked out 3 albums and a Sherlock stories collection, checked some videos of Jovino Santos (if you don't know him, he's a brazillian jazz pianist/composer, and an amazing one at that) and found my viola teacher and the quartet he's part of playing with him, freaked out for the next 15 minutes, and now I'm waiting for a friend to pick me up.