Entries this day: Morning Swimming freewriting-poetry-in-vietnam get_meeting

Morning

2:46pm ICT Monday 30 May 2005

So far today it's been pretty busy, but the beginning inital crazy week is nearly over. Maybe it is over, if one counts the rest of the day as not crazy. We had the GET Open House, where we divided the students into what will likely be their classes, and showed them around the ship a bit. I felt a bit childish as I didn't have the instructions given to each leader so I ended up following Greg, and not being my own little group. I heard that we were going to be in one big group but we were also going to be in little subgroups. The good things I did were lead good group games (thanks to YRUU and _New Games For The Whole Family_ book) and get back to the room on time.

After that we scoped our class rosters and shuffled a couple students around according to who seemed to fit better in other places, �Ȥ� ��������, and that was a pretty easy process. I flipped a coin because I trust the universe to choose better classes than I could (basically split 10 people who I've only vaguely met into 2 groups), though I gave myself veto rights. I have class Q and class R, and on our first class day I plan to have us make up team/class names and play lots of name games. I'd like to help our classes bond tightly together. Similar to my men's group, but I'm open to it being less intense.

2:52pm

Right now I've got iPhoto open in the background, and would like to integrate photos in with my journal entries, and have a program in mind to help write the HTML code for that, but I'm resisting and going to work on my first two class lesson plans.

(pm JST Wednesday 28 September 2005: and I didn't actually start that process until today.)

Swimming

4:34pm ICT Monday 30 May 2005

I've gotten a good start on my first lesson plan, and a bit of a template for all my lessons. That was a big hurdle for me: just getting started. Going for a swim now. I've got my underwater camera case!

5:58pm

Best fun ever!

freewriting poetry in vietnam

(transcribed 14:22 Friday 23 February 2024 JST)

どぞ my freewriting Vietnam poetry workshop おつかれオドリーさまちまは Sugoi Suばらしい！ If I go anywhere it will be Vietnam The people are as friendly as friends and money is easy as pie and all smiles all around. My sandals are as big as my feet cuase they are ジャストセイズ [sic] and made just for my footses which are also just my size. And in this workshop with roof flapping in the lovely breeze seawind wafting all around including seaward and forward そのかんじはピンポン awesome without borders to constrain air molecules from exerciesing their free will to sing freely to the music at the speakers' thumping command powerful enough to move my hair during an outdoor rock concert put on by SPB at UH for the sneezing people without persmission nor cause except just to do it and again with Vietnam in the background out of sight but never out of mind, my friend Tam's face smiling in my mind as she gets me the best prices in town in Hoi An and tells me that she'll remember me for 1,3,5 years if and when I return to climb marble mountain and I hope I write her a postcard; I already plan to send this to janette whose personality shines brightly in her American village in Dallas, a mere suburb of the world with people driving fast cars and fasting not on fast food and watching stuffing cramming movies & trivia into their trivialized minds all because they don't know what going on in the rest of the world nor Vietnam but we onboard are fortunate to have this travel opportunity to stop for a moment and write nothing - just as it flows from my pen onto the page and my ねこ to be an 女大 and not a cat on a brat but to have fun onboard though I think she was mad at me when I saw her this AM after VN - was it cause I was walking next to Kim? Well if so I just want you to know that I will always be one who loves to love.

get meeting

7:09pm ICT Monday 30 May 2005

GET meeting was not the best fun ever. I lost a contact in the pool and figured I could get along fine with just one eyeball able to see clearly. I basically did, and I'm basically just being down on myself right now, but I have a fear that I'm not "keeping up with" all the details given out in the meetings. My mind locks onto one thing or gets sidetracked and because Audrey is super genki she talks reallllly fast and when my brain comes back 30 seconds later, important details have flown by.

I'm going to try something: get an extra copy of the meeting agenda (one copy is printed just before each meeting) and see if that helps. I can imagine that I won't keep that up indefinitely; maybe I can bring up that I learn better visually.

After the GET meeting, Matt inquired about me having a GET binder, which turns out are only for the students. I thought it would be good for me to have a copy of what the students have, especially given that we will be creating a custom curriculum for each class.

It's not a huge big deal; I just need to use the binder I brought or get another one and start a new filing system.

I'm good at making filing systems.

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I'm feeling myself need a bit of alone time, which is a bit tricky to get on a crowded cruise ship.

A good thing is that we are just about over the craziness; there is one more party tonight and then we'll be more into a stable schedule.