My ruminations from the world of Dip Ed

well between procrastination and phonetic symbols, I’m having a tough time of it.  Still, the phonetic stuff should be do-able.  I noticed that nothing is more annoying than being thwarted whilst procrastinating. It’s one thing to think “I’ll just look at a doonesbury cartoon before I start studying” but it’s infuriating to have the thing not download.

Oh well - I press on with hopes of making it to the end of the year. I’m working five and sometimes six days a week with teaching ESL to two classes and doing IELTS testing.  What with that and trying to get fit, I’m busy.

behind on my linguistics for language teachers and being bothered by a lively child - I’m feeling frazzled.  However, I’ll follow the philosophy of doing what I can - which is get a wriggle on and get something done this afternoon

Right, now I’m ripping into ‘linguistics for language teachers’ which doesn’t have any web presence, just workbooks.  Oh well the material is interesting.  We’ll get there.

the reflection is on the back burner for the next few sessions while I get up to speed on linguistics

(for those who don’t know, ‘aieee!’ is what people in comics say when they are about to be squashed by a falling building, or suffer some similar calamity. Like Superman’s blue hair, it’s one of those things that looks normal in the comic)

aieeee! because I finished my assignment, checked the references, fiddled around a bit to make it as nice as possible and then discovered that the e-submission part of the UNE website is down!  They’ve extended the deadline, but I still feel thwarted.  Oh well, this gives me more time to check the thing and to work on the reflective exercise that comes afterwards.  I made a start on the reflections last night. It’s ironic I find this daunting (reflecting is no problem, I do it all the time, but reflecting in a way that shows I’m on top of the subject makes me nervous), since I’ve just finished five weeks of forcing my poor EAP students to do reflective exercises.

By the way, it’s very quiet over on the EDEE messageboard. Last year it was a riot of opinionated and informative chatter. This year not a peep!  I don’t know if the staff have discouraged frivolous conversation too successfully, if the boarders are all studying too hard to stuff around with messageboards or if they’re all off on some other messageboard about which I have not been told*

*I’m not marked on the grammar in this blog I hope