I expect that I'll edit this list quite a few times as I think of more things to add, but here it goes:
Prepare for the Dip Ed:
Read books on Education -
Education and Capitalism,
Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed,
Get Stationary.
Sing:
Practice singing.
Find breathing and vocal techniques.
Bring the freakin' house down at the Marxism Fundraiser.
Read Political Stuff:
Marxism and socialism.
Refugee rights.
Read More Broadly:
Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling?
The Self Illusion
Get Fit:
Keep playing basketball.
Look for a bike on gumtree.
Look for a kayak?
Look into fitness generally - boxing bag? weights?
Cook:
Learn to cook some healthy, delicious, cheap, bulk meals.
Live it up:
Go camping with Ash.
Party.
Have fun.
Take it easy - relax.
Do things for the Bunnies:
Try and make an enclosed area of the front yard for them to run in.
Make a hutch for them if they can stay in the same one.
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
About the Summer of Awesome
My Summer of Awesome begins as I finish a hard slog of a semester at uni and will end at (what will hopefully be) the beginning of another year at uni that seems like it will be an even harder slog. I have applied to get into a Diploma of Education and all reports are that it is an intense work load, with assignments upon assignments and prac upon prac - unpaid work for weeks on end, where your days are taken up by teaching and your nights are taken up by preparing for the next day with lesson plans. Most people that I've talked to have said that there is no time to work on the side, so I'll be relying on Centrelink payments and my girlfriend (thanks in advance Ash, this year I'll be your dependent) to see me through financially. Its kind of daunting, looking at it and I'm sure the year will have its fair share (or more) of stresses, but I'm looking forward to it too. It'll be good to be learning something at uni that I'll be putting into practice. It'll be good to go through the year, to take it all on, and come out the other side knowing that I've put the effort in and got the reward and that I'm ready to hit the world of full-time work (if there are jobs around that is). I think teaching high school students will be both a huge challenge and could be very rewarding.
However, this is all far from certain as yet. I'm waiting on word back from TISC to see whether or not I've made it into the course. Tuesday 11th of December is the day that I'm supposed to find out (now less than 2 weeks away), which seems a bit strange because my results from this semester just gone are meant to be released on the Monday the 17th and getting in depends on those marks. If I don't get in, it'll be because I haven't done well enough in the four English units I did to qualify for a teaching specialty minor in that subject area. It'll mean that I'll have to spend another year doing more English units so that I can get my marks up. That would be annoying. Quite annoying. It'd throw out plans to go go on a trip to Europe in a few years and feel like a waste of a year. So yeah, I'm really hoping all goes well.
If it does, then I have until the 25th of February without a pile of uni work hanging over me and I damn well plan to enjoy it - cue the Summer of Awesome. If it doesn't work out, then I may as well have a Summer of Awesome anyway, right? So, the purpose of this blog is to help me to get what I want out of the approximately 3 months or 12 weeks that I have of relative freedom (still have to work, still have other commitments), so its really more of an organising and motivating tool for myself than it being intended as a public spectacle (even though I'm posting it all on that very public of spectacles - the internet). I'll be making a list of all the things that I want to do over the Summer (that will probably be edited a few times as I add stuff to it) and I think I'll make weekly posts on goals for that week.
So there it is: The Summer of Awesome. That's the plan and I plan to stick to it - for Awesome's sake.
However, this is all far from certain as yet. I'm waiting on word back from TISC to see whether or not I've made it into the course. Tuesday 11th of December is the day that I'm supposed to find out (now less than 2 weeks away), which seems a bit strange because my results from this semester just gone are meant to be released on the Monday the 17th and getting in depends on those marks. If I don't get in, it'll be because I haven't done well enough in the four English units I did to qualify for a teaching specialty minor in that subject area. It'll mean that I'll have to spend another year doing more English units so that I can get my marks up. That would be annoying. Quite annoying. It'd throw out plans to go go on a trip to Europe in a few years and feel like a waste of a year. So yeah, I'm really hoping all goes well.
If it does, then I have until the 25th of February without a pile of uni work hanging over me and I damn well plan to enjoy it - cue the Summer of Awesome. If it doesn't work out, then I may as well have a Summer of Awesome anyway, right? So, the purpose of this blog is to help me to get what I want out of the approximately 3 months or 12 weeks that I have of relative freedom (still have to work, still have other commitments), so its really more of an organising and motivating tool for myself than it being intended as a public spectacle (even though I'm posting it all on that very public of spectacles - the internet). I'll be making a list of all the things that I want to do over the Summer (that will probably be edited a few times as I add stuff to it) and I think I'll make weekly posts on goals for that week.
So there it is: The Summer of Awesome. That's the plan and I plan to stick to it - for Awesome's sake.
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