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Friday, September 2, 2011
Sep. 2nd, 2011 11:00 pmToday was the first day of the writing classes and I got to school early enough to make photocopies of the syllabi and the handouts, including the writing sample I was giving to the students. I went to the main campus first to the computer lab and then took the bus to where I teach. The writing center where I’m based this semester has a very crappy and temperamental copy machine. It copies most of the syllabi but I needed to go to a different computer center and just print out the rest. It is annoying but it will be a reality this semester.
The classes themselves went over pretty well. The classrooms are very user friendly and the students seem very good. I don’t get the sense yet of which class I will like more, although the students in the second section talk slightly more and ask more questions. I gave out the syllabus, went over the class requirements and gave them their writing sample. I read them already too and no one seems too terrible. They did have a slight problem figuring out what “not just beneficiaries of change but also agents” meant so I will probably bring it up in discussion on Tuesday and maybe have them think about it for the first assignment.
Since it is a Labor Day weekend here – I usually head over to Bear’s house for the whole thing. Technically, it is our anniversary weekend but we are not really doing anything special. Bear did give me one rose as is our custom. We’ve been together thirteen years now. It is really weird when I think about it.
Since the offices closed early for Labor Day, I skipped my office hours and headed straight for the train station. The three hour ride on two trains passed really fast actually as I was working on those writing samples and then started reading “Gilgamesh.” I did get a chocolate chip gelato while waiting for the second train and that was pretty good.
( Torchwood S4E9 )
The classes themselves went over pretty well. The classrooms are very user friendly and the students seem very good. I don’t get the sense yet of which class I will like more, although the students in the second section talk slightly more and ask more questions. I gave out the syllabus, went over the class requirements and gave them their writing sample. I read them already too and no one seems too terrible. They did have a slight problem figuring out what “not just beneficiaries of change but also agents” meant so I will probably bring it up in discussion on Tuesday and maybe have them think about it for the first assignment.
Since it is a Labor Day weekend here – I usually head over to Bear’s house for the whole thing. Technically, it is our anniversary weekend but we are not really doing anything special. Bear did give me one rose as is our custom. We’ve been together thirteen years now. It is really weird when I think about it.
Since the offices closed early for Labor Day, I skipped my office hours and headed straight for the train station. The three hour ride on two trains passed really fast actually as I was working on those writing samples and then started reading “Gilgamesh.” I did get a chocolate chip gelato while waiting for the second train and that was pretty good.
( Torchwood S4E9 )