Sort of a day off. As part of this Saturday a month math teaching I signed up for (2 more Saturdays, plus a week of 9-noon) I had to travel to the 'hood for another session of training. It is light work, and aside from the perils of transportation, an easy day. I got picked on a bit in class...mainly because I was the only man in the class and easy to pick out, but also because I know the material and am on the ball with Math. Realized part way through that, if the Superintendent decides to follow through with massive budget cuts, and if our school becomes one of the few schools to house an optional program, I could potentially teach Math AND Science concurrently. In other words, incorporate math learning in the science curriculum. It would be tons of work, but very possible.
And during this whole thing I was formulating/adapting the lesson to the upcoming Australian gig. I wish I felt more confident about my teaching, but that is just me having extremely high (and inhumanly unreachable) expectations of myself.
For a nice "genius" moment, as I left the school I found myself exiting via a different street from which I entered this morning. On instinct I turned left and realized I wasn't on the same street I had been on, and internally debated whether I had turned the right way. A few lights later, I hit a familiar street, but the quandry was, which way to turn. Instincts again said left-turn. Then I let my logical side try to figure out why. It seems I naturally examine shadows, and know that in the afternoon I want the sun on my left side to be heading north. Might explain why I never got turned around in New York, either.
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