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Did today. Big success.
Nov. 25th, 2011 04:20 pmI went to college. If I had an hour of sleep I'll be surprised but I went anyway because my ceiling is very boring and lessons are quite interesting. We started studying Heart of Darkness and got up to the end of part 1. Next lesson is parts 2 and 3. That'll fit in neatly.
I was very tired (surprise) and kind of odd. also it was cold. I put my outdoor coat on. Teacher was all 'not cold! how can you wear!' and I'm huddled with the hood up being cooooooold.
At lunch time Teach wanted to make us all leave so Wednesday Teach could use the room for tutorials, but I did not have enough spoons to brave teh canteen or indeed the corridors today, so I was all wah! So I asked if I could just put my headphones on and pretend not to be there, cause I usually hide in the room at lunch, and that turned out to be okay. *phew*
Added to that there was chair triumph. On Wednesday Teach noticed the continued ongoing lack of the requested goes up and down chair, so that's not very triumphant, but attempts helpful. But today I heard Teach telling about acquiring me a chair, by asking, which didn't work, and then by going and getting the one from next door, which did. So I pointed out the chair that I had did not stay upright, the back needed tightening many often times. Teach noticed it was not the chair we stole. So she went and stole it again. Now we are having a chair fight where someone will probably steal it before next Friday and we will steal it back again. It's all very organised and civilized at our college.
We did the workshop bit, which Teach says our class do really well, especially since she's put the workshop in the middle of the lesson so people don't all go home. Yes. that works better.
Then we were supposed to have a debate about if the text is racist and imperialist or anti. Nobody believed it either way and many people were all whyyyyyy do we have to say what we don't believe. Teach tried to explain it's like a trial, there's just a structure. It's a good way of making your arguments more robust. But people weren't doing much debate, they'd just say a sentence and wait for someone to contradict them. Teach told us a formal debate involves presenting an argument with evidence. I said mine was bad but I could do that. ... it starts 'Heart of Darkness is anti-colonialist because Kurtz is such a creep', a statement which could do with being in a more academic register. But I had evidence in quotes and made a proper argue. And then the teacher turned around and told everyone that what I just did is how you do a debate. :-D Win! And I thought I'd done rubbish because I kind of opened the book at random and figured out how that page would make an argue. But no, it worked.
I'm sure there were other things in the lesson but that's what notes are for, writing it all down for reading when I can do something other than just yawn.
Next Wednesday there is a big huge national strike of teachers and also many many other sorts of workers, including basically everyone at college who isn't management. Library people and desk people and all. So the managers are going to be making the desks work. There's an announce on the website now, "City College Norwich will be open on Wednesday 30th November. However, we are unable to guarantee that all classes will be running on this day" This is management speak for nobody will be inside because they'll all be outside with signs and maybe leaflets. Also there are health and safety issues with there being nobody around. Except management. Who clearly are the ones to make everything work real good.
I think next Wednesday is a pub night, so I'd be coming in to Norwich on the bus early enough to catch the good bus that stops early. But it will not be a day for going to the library.
... my brain did the going blank thing for a bunch of minutes there. I think it is time to be All Done with today. Except now I have to decide on the order of 'eat' and 'sleep'.
I was very tired (surprise) and kind of odd. also it was cold. I put my outdoor coat on. Teacher was all 'not cold! how can you wear!' and I'm huddled with the hood up being cooooooold.
At lunch time Teach wanted to make us all leave so Wednesday Teach could use the room for tutorials, but I did not have enough spoons to brave teh canteen or indeed the corridors today, so I was all wah! So I asked if I could just put my headphones on and pretend not to be there, cause I usually hide in the room at lunch, and that turned out to be okay. *phew*
Added to that there was chair triumph. On Wednesday Teach noticed the continued ongoing lack of the requested goes up and down chair, so that's not very triumphant, but attempts helpful. But today I heard Teach telling about acquiring me a chair, by asking, which didn't work, and then by going and getting the one from next door, which did. So I pointed out the chair that I had did not stay upright, the back needed tightening many often times. Teach noticed it was not the chair we stole. So she went and stole it again. Now we are having a chair fight where someone will probably steal it before next Friday and we will steal it back again. It's all very organised and civilized at our college.
We did the workshop bit, which Teach says our class do really well, especially since she's put the workshop in the middle of the lesson so people don't all go home. Yes. that works better.
Then we were supposed to have a debate about if the text is racist and imperialist or anti. Nobody believed it either way and many people were all whyyyyyy do we have to say what we don't believe. Teach tried to explain it's like a trial, there's just a structure. It's a good way of making your arguments more robust. But people weren't doing much debate, they'd just say a sentence and wait for someone to contradict them. Teach told us a formal debate involves presenting an argument with evidence. I said mine was bad but I could do that. ... it starts 'Heart of Darkness is anti-colonialist because Kurtz is such a creep', a statement which could do with being in a more academic register. But I had evidence in quotes and made a proper argue. And then the teacher turned around and told everyone that what I just did is how you do a debate. :-D Win! And I thought I'd done rubbish because I kind of opened the book at random and figured out how that page would make an argue. But no, it worked.
I'm sure there were other things in the lesson but that's what notes are for, writing it all down for reading when I can do something other than just yawn.
Next Wednesday there is a big huge national strike of teachers and also many many other sorts of workers, including basically everyone at college who isn't management. Library people and desk people and all. So the managers are going to be making the desks work. There's an announce on the website now, "City College Norwich will be open on Wednesday 30th November. However, we are unable to guarantee that all classes will be running on this day" This is management speak for nobody will be inside because they'll all be outside with signs and maybe leaflets. Also there are health and safety issues with there being nobody around. Except management. Who clearly are the ones to make everything work real good.
I think next Wednesday is a pub night, so I'd be coming in to Norwich on the bus early enough to catch the good bus that stops early. But it will not be a day for going to the library.
... my brain did the going blank thing for a bunch of minutes there. I think it is time to be All Done with today. Except now I have to decide on the order of 'eat' and 'sleep'.