here I am
Well here I am at school... its 11:13 as I begin to write this, and my kids will show up in about 10 minutes. Its going to be a good week, mostly because I am not really doing anything. I am showing a movie. Tomorrow my kids have projects due.
I am showing my students American History X. Its a phenomenal movie, and it makes a great point. Although I do not think racism is a huge problem here because it is such a mixed school, it does exist. The 10th grade lit class is finishing up Night by Elie Wiesel, an excellent book which chronicles the Holocaust. I thought a lot about what movie I wanted to show this week, and I wanted them to get something out of it. Truth be told, there are not a lot of great SCIENCE movies out there.... plenty of sci-fi, but nothing that really teaches you anything. I brought in The Fifth Element, but I decided to instead use my extra time to tie into Literature. We will see how they like it.
I did not sleep well last. I worked on various odds and ends... put together a christmas present for my mom, typed some things for her, did a bit of schoolwork... I went to actual bed around 11, then I read Memoirs of a Geisha for about an hour. I have one short chapter left... I had forgotten how mesmerizing the book is and, fortunately for me, I could not remember the ending. Its amazing to me that its a memoir... as in, a real story. I am not sure how the movie is, but I do want to go see it. I have heard it is romanticized too much... but the geisha culture is fascinating to me.... perhaps the first thing outside of gross stuff (diseases, microbiology, mental health problems, etc) that really catches my attention. As it says in the book, most people think that geishas are merely glorified prostitutes... and most crass americans would still agree with that.... but it was a culture, a tradition, a way in which women were simultaneously honored and degraded for their sex. Its just really interesting to me.
I woke up at 5:20 after a horrible dream. I dreampt (??) that I was in some sort of war.... and someone forced me to take a pill. After I took the pill, I could not control my body, I could barely lift my arms or move my legs... I could not control what I was saying or doing... and then there was this demon. I dont know if it was real or just in my head, but it was so scary and it was trying to bite me, and I grabbed its lower teeth with my hand and was trying to get the sharp teeth away from my face... it was so scary.
and they are here.... sigh... time to be a teacher again.
I am showing my students American History X. Its a phenomenal movie, and it makes a great point. Although I do not think racism is a huge problem here because it is such a mixed school, it does exist. The 10th grade lit class is finishing up Night by Elie Wiesel, an excellent book which chronicles the Holocaust. I thought a lot about what movie I wanted to show this week, and I wanted them to get something out of it. Truth be told, there are not a lot of great SCIENCE movies out there.... plenty of sci-fi, but nothing that really teaches you anything. I brought in The Fifth Element, but I decided to instead use my extra time to tie into Literature. We will see how they like it.
I did not sleep well last. I worked on various odds and ends... put together a christmas present for my mom, typed some things for her, did a bit of schoolwork... I went to actual bed around 11, then I read Memoirs of a Geisha for about an hour. I have one short chapter left... I had forgotten how mesmerizing the book is and, fortunately for me, I could not remember the ending. Its amazing to me that its a memoir... as in, a real story. I am not sure how the movie is, but I do want to go see it. I have heard it is romanticized too much... but the geisha culture is fascinating to me.... perhaps the first thing outside of gross stuff (diseases, microbiology, mental health problems, etc) that really catches my attention. As it says in the book, most people think that geishas are merely glorified prostitutes... and most crass americans would still agree with that.... but it was a culture, a tradition, a way in which women were simultaneously honored and degraded for their sex. Its just really interesting to me.
I woke up at 5:20 after a horrible dream. I dreampt (??) that I was in some sort of war.... and someone forced me to take a pill. After I took the pill, I could not control my body, I could barely lift my arms or move my legs... I could not control what I was saying or doing... and then there was this demon. I dont know if it was real or just in my head, but it was so scary and it was trying to bite me, and I grabbed its lower teeth with my hand and was trying to get the sharp teeth away from my face... it was so scary.
and they are here.... sigh... time to be a teacher again.
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