Living in a flat world
Able to see from here to there
To smell, touch and taste
Ride on clouds to share
Deconstructed culture
The world still goes around
Instant communication
A lightning strike profound
Automatic information
The hive mind buzzes
Armchair philosophers
Full of fight and fusses
Inspired by a Philosophy Now article about the Crisis of Culture and the thought that the internet has created a flat world
Today I’m feeling:
Pretty good again, waking up a little before my alarm and energised enough to exercise and do some dead hangs.
Very relaxed at school as many teachers are not teaching and many students are just catching up on work that they were too lazy to do during the semester. I happily let my grade 12 students do that whilst dropping by to David’s class and helping with my old grade 9 students, whom I still enjoy talking with (especially since no longer teaching them!).
Helping them in class was a bit of a reminder of how poor their English skills are. I really hope most of them don’t go into the English Program next year!
It also inspired me to do the same little piece of work to my grade 8s and see if they were any better and in general, I would say that about half of them were!
Health:
Physical: 7
Mental: 7
Today I’m grateful for:
Couple Cups coffee for keeping me going this morning and also having a good seat and table for me to read and write at for an hour or so.
The best thing about today was:
As ever at this time of year, the relaxed atmosphere of the students (and teachers) and the general good feeling around school, in much contrast to last week.
This morning, Rista wanted to tell me all about her boyfriend and Pleng was shyly hiding her haircut, which she has cut into a boyish style but I think looks really nice. Rista tried to drag me off to her class by escorting me arm in arm but I ducked away for coffee first.
In my last class, Nomsen gave me a playful hug and said that I was the best teacher (possibly because I ran out of time to ask her any of the questions that other students had to answer!).
Ozone and Ploy played and joked with me as they waited for their class and I threatened to pick them up and throw them over the edge of the building. They also told me that they wished that I was still teaching them.
I encouraged Mee, Gam, Pat and Palmy with their speaking and they all did better than they expected and I guided Nam to find the correct answers in a test that they were doing.
As usual, I played with Apple and Baipad in the morning, trying to steal their phones off them and so it went around for most of the day.
Something I learned today?
We had a visitor whilst we were out and Amy found him when she got back from the city.
Review your acts, Good and bad.
I’ve done this a couple of times recently. There is a mangy-looking dog that often sits at the traffic lights on the bypass and if the light is red and he’s around, I’ll throw him a dog snack that I usually keep in the car for Tokyo.
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