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May 25, 2005

No holiday this summer.. :(

big_moth.jpg Everybody who got excited about me coming to Finland and Lithuania... Can't make it, lah... Got training, cannot lah. Holiday got got, but take cannot.. Too busyyyy... Boss no like holiday take take all the time. Have work say.. Training leh... (this is my attempt for Leijonakaupunginglish.. Now when I read, this, seems to be quite authentic.. :) Ok, this time in English: as the term break is supposed to be time free of teaching, everything else that we can't make is sqeezed into that one week.. Such as training sessions, graduation ceremony and what not.. So no holiday in July (the boss put it clearly - "please, don't apply leave on those dates".. bah..). I should have time off in September or later in the autum, the only problem is that the weather is getting horrible in Europe about that time.. Lets see how it goes.. Kaj still doesn't know how and when he'll arrange his holidays, but he could be traveling to Finland at some point this summer..

This big moth in the picture appeared in our kitchen last Sunday.. Don't know how it got in, but Kaj got rid of it heroically, just like the rest of cockroaches, geckos and other unpleasant living beings that venture into our apartment.. The moth was very beautiful at least...

I had 2 days of teaching now and its pretty intense, staying back late every night, still haven't sorted my papers and everything gets messier and messier.. How am I going to handle all the extra "projects" and work that we did besides teaching before the semester started?!?! The kids are nice and lectures was great fun, actually.. Just all the stuff besides teaching starts "killing me softly...."

Posted by gkligyte at May 25, 2005 11:26 PM
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Ok, lah. see bout September, can? :) What I teach? Also can. I teach kids 4 things: smth called "ideation", u know, the usual brainstorming, mindmapping, observation, anything to make their heads dizzy and get them "out of the box"... :) This is great fun, because we play games mostly (could imagine you do something similar in Design Thinking (minus the theory), just that these kids actually really like messing around.. they don't question "why" yet... :) Then I teach basic web design and web animation - these are mostly about skills. Then I also have Project 2. Its where they apply their skills and do something big. Its for level 2 kids, meaning that they are not freshmen, but not graduating yet either. This is mostly about consultations, etc.. I'm very suprised, the kids seem to be wonderful this year! Eager, enthusiastic, they even come to every class!! I guess I just had a bad combination of busy students and bad motivation last semester... knock the wood... Posted by: Giedre on May 28, 2005 11:38 AM
Good at least Kaj is comming.. our flat is getting full of something similar to that but smaller. Maybe he is interested in a summer job.. he he. What a pity busy busy woman, come come september! Good weather lah people nice nice. BTW What are u teaching? Posted by: abc on May 27, 2005 01:45 PM
I want to stress that i did not harm the moth, i just showed it the way out. I also don't harm the geckos, although occationally they commit suicide when i direct them the way through the open window. The cockroaches i kill. Posted by: kaj on May 25, 2005 11:56 PM
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