Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Aug. 30th, 2011 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyI spent all morning in final preparations for first history lectures tomorrow. I have to combine the introductory lecture with the first actual lecture since the classes got cancelled on Monday. The main uncertainly is the classroom and whether it will have any technology. I’m preparing for the worst case and will make sure I print out enough outlines for students. That classroom that we got moved to because of renovations is just so terrible. At least I hope for a lectern.
I just realized tonight that my first day of school was 25 years ago when I was six and I was all excited for first grade. (We didn’t have kindergarten in Belarus, just grades 1 to 11. Although my years was the first one that got to go to school at the age of six instead of seven. Before that it was grades 1 to 10. I always felt special because of it). I got to wear my uniform, as everyone in the whole Soviet Union wore that same school uniform and I had flowers for my teacher and I was very nerdy in my short haircut and big glasses. And now I get to be on the other side of it. I still get nervous until I actually enter the classroom.
Tonight I watched “Battlestar Galactica” ‘s Pegasus arc. This was one of the most uncomfortable arcs and that is saying a lot on this show. But I had to watch all three episodes, I couldn’t stop – this is really just one long movie.
I just realized tonight that my first day of school was 25 years ago when I was six and I was all excited for first grade. (We didn’t have kindergarten in Belarus, just grades 1 to 11. Although my years was the first one that got to go to school at the age of six instead of seven. Before that it was grades 1 to 10. I always felt special because of it). I got to wear my uniform, as everyone in the whole Soviet Union wore that same school uniform and I had flowers for my teacher and I was very nerdy in my short haircut and big glasses. And now I get to be on the other side of it. I still get nervous until I actually enter the classroom.
Tonight I watched “Battlestar Galactica” ‘s Pegasus arc. This was one of the most uncomfortable arcs and that is saying a lot on this show. But I had to watch all three episodes, I couldn’t stop – this is really just one long movie.