Despite the fact that there aren't too many books in the library here to begin with, sometimes the library gets tired of books and will leave them out on a table for students to take for free. Apparently, however, students don't actually take any of the books left out, so one of the English teachers here rescued them and brought them to her classroom, where I got to look through them yesterday. Let's just say it makes sense why the library doesn't want them and why they can't seem to give them away to any students. I mean, really, who doesn't want to read such classics like The Runaway Robot or Dick King-Smith and Lady Lollipop?
I took pictures because this is very real.
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| Rocks and their stories (my life) & The Runaway Robot (whose name is Rex! and he lives on some planet.) |
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| Dick King-Smith and Lady Lollipop (this looks like a little-kid book. what is this name), The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, and The Muffin Child (whose muffin is oddly reminiscent of a mustache) |
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| This is a Tree, It's Like This, Cat (damn straight), and A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag |
In a moment of sheer indulgence, a dramatic reading of the first page of This is a Tree may have occurred.
Learning
We watched two videos in English yesterday that basically made me remember why I am passionate about education and why I don't think I could be a teacher in the current system of schooling. There's this quote by some wise guy who said something along the lines of "Never let your schooling interfere with your education" and I think both videos spoke quite well to that idea. I'll post links to the videos later (wifi in school is objectively terrible). If you are too excited to watch these videos, and would like to go find them immediately, here are the names:
"I Will Not Let an Exam Result Decide My Fate" - Suli Breaks
"Changing Paradigms" - Sir Ken Robinson (for a more optimal learning experience, I suggest watching the RSA animation of the TED Talk)
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