About a year ago...
About a year ago, I was in a ridiculous time in my life...from Halloween 2010 until Thanksgiving vacation, my life was crazy with the amount of stuff that I had piled on to myself. GRE, Asian Alumni retreat, last Legends, Kamayan, and WiSE Athena Science Challenge...no wonder I was so excited after I ran away from campus for an 18 hour vacation haha.
Last Friday, I was getting ready for work in a rush, but I stopped for a moment when I realized that I was wearing almost the exact same outfit that I wore in this photo. It couldn't help but make me smile remembering that just about a year ago, my girlies and I were wandering around campus looking for places to take pictures with the fall leaves =)
Things like that, somehow make me feel that even though every year I could be in a different place, with different worries and different things occupying my life, that somehow there is some rhythm in all of this. That somehow it actually isn't as crazy and haphazard as it can feel sometimes, but actually some underlying pattern or movement that ties it all together. But who knows, it might just be part of the human condition to try to make sense of a nonsensical situation like life haha.
So it's getting to that time nearing the end of the semester, the term, the quarter, etc. and it's the same way over here in Japan. My high school kids are all getting projects to finish out the term, and I decided to have my 3rd graders (12th grade/last year of high school) make posters and presentations reflecting upon their life in high school, and to share some of their goals for the future. In my attempts to model good teaching strategies, I made a sample poster for them as if I was also a high school student:
The kids were just excited that I had more pictures for them to see lol. But I really hope that they enjoy the project and that the objective of the project ("Speaking naturally and without a script" lol) will come through. We'll see in 2 weeks when they present!
Last Friday, I was getting ready for work in a rush, but I stopped for a moment when I realized that I was wearing almost the exact same outfit that I wore in this photo. It couldn't help but make me smile remembering that just about a year ago, my girlies and I were wandering around campus looking for places to take pictures with the fall leaves =)Things like that, somehow make me feel that even though every year I could be in a different place, with different worries and different things occupying my life, that somehow there is some rhythm in all of this. That somehow it actually isn't as crazy and haphazard as it can feel sometimes, but actually some underlying pattern or movement that ties it all together. But who knows, it might just be part of the human condition to try to make sense of a nonsensical situation like life haha.
So it's getting to that time nearing the end of the semester, the term, the quarter, etc. and it's the same way over here in Japan. My high school kids are all getting projects to finish out the term, and I decided to have my 3rd graders (12th grade/last year of high school) make posters and presentations reflecting upon their life in high school, and to share some of their goals for the future. In my attempts to model good teaching strategies, I made a sample poster for them as if I was also a high school student:
The kids were just excited that I had more pictures for them to see lol. But I really hope that they enjoy the project and that the objective of the project ("Speaking naturally and without a script" lol) will come through. We'll see in 2 weeks when they present!
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