During the year break from blogging we've been up to plenty.
F's been researching, researching, researching (saying that 10x fast is nothing compared to the actual reading + sorting + such that F is actually doing ;) ) and he's loving it! The biggest 'problem' these days is that he says that 200 pages won't be enough...tja...essentially he's got his life's work cut out for him. Feel free to head over to his Wiki to read more about the perfect storm between a South Asian aesthetic theory called "rasa" + "The Book of Mormon" + post-modern literary theory/hermeneutics :) Whee! Link here. (And of course that's already outdated (last updated in May (!!)...sometimes major changes + new breakthroughs seem to come daily or even hourly!)
Let's see if we can get a picture/event or two for each month of the year. Of course, there was more than just one event or picture each month, but partly because it was so full, I wasn't blogging.
January 2018: We went to Poland
February: My 4th graders + I got to visit the new + famous "Elphi" (ELbPHIlharmonie in Hamburg) + go to a fun concert for students of Dvořáks New World Sympony.
And I went to a teacher conference on teaching English (and Russian incidentally :) ) as a foreign language in Weimar. In the Goethe park there was a wonderfully Romantic building
that reminded me of one of my favorite Romantic painters, Caspar David Friedrich (for example, this painting. Or just do an image search. He's amazing!)
March: (I didn't have any pictures marked as from March, but thanks to my bullet journal ;), I found something we had done) We were in Freiburg for another teacher development thing for me -- and also saw a documentary, called "weit. um die Welt" (=far. around the world) about a German couple that traveled around the world in ca. 3 1/2 years by foot, by car, by boat, etc. Jet-lag wasn't a problem because they traveled slow enough to experience each bit of the way.
Some translated quotations/thoughts:
April: My family -- including Loquita, who had just returned from her mission for our church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) -- visited. One of her first "deeds" was chopping her hair off again :) And we made a snow toilet as per tradition (I think that'll have to be a post in itself :) )
May: The traditional May 1st Rallye -- one of the assignments was finding faces :)
June: We started learning about fractions -- mind blowing!
And we went to the super cool exhibit "Dialog im Dunkeln" (Dialogue in the Dark) -- where we were led through pitch-black rooms, by a blind guide to experience a little what it's like to be blind. We were 'in traffic', 'outside' with a brook (yes, there was real water -- and one of my students managed to step in it :) ) + a bridge, in a café. We also each had a white cane (the kind that many people who are blind or seeing-impaired use). Such a "eye-opening" ...or rather ear-opening experience!
F's been researching, researching, researching (saying that 10x fast is nothing compared to the actual reading + sorting + such that F is actually doing ;) ) and he's loving it! The biggest 'problem' these days is that he says that 200 pages won't be enough...tja...essentially he's got his life's work cut out for him. Feel free to head over to his Wiki to read more about the perfect storm between a South Asian aesthetic theory called "rasa" + "The Book of Mormon" + post-modern literary theory/hermeneutics :) Whee! Link here. (And of course that's already outdated (last updated in May (!!)...sometimes major changes + new breakthroughs seem to come daily or even hourly!)
Let's see if we can get a picture/event or two for each month of the year. Of course, there was more than just one event or picture each month, but partly because it was so full, I wasn't blogging.
January 2018: We went to Poland
Some translated quotations/thoughts:
- "Foreign + unknown are only foreign + unknwn until you take a step towards them"
- They were glad that the world wasn't just 41.7 hours small but also 3 1/2 years big
April: My family -- including Loquita, who had just returned from her mission for our church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) -- visited. One of her first "deeds" was chopping her hair off again :) And we made a snow toilet as per tradition (I think that'll have to be a post in itself :) )
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