Some people think I'm bonkers, but I just think I'm Fi!

So now I'm on an 8 week countdown til I fly home. I cant frikkin wait!

I didnt think I'd get homesick, I've missed different people at different times and I've missed decent food and my bed etc but now I am full on excited to be coming home, as in, I want these two months to go quicker than quick!

1. Ring Tashie and persuade her to pick me up from the station and give her a huge hug and present.
2. Hug my family and my cats!
3. Run round and see my nan, pick up fish and chips on the way and enjoy a nice proper cup of tea 
4. Sleep in MY OWN BED! in a hoodie and job pants
5. spend the best part of the next week wearing as much white as possible to show off my tan
6. See as many people as possible.
7. Go to the pub, the cinema, town, watch telly and try on all of my winter clothes (whilst showing off as much tan as possible)
8. Cook!! ahhh I cant wait!
9. See the neice and nephews! ahhh!

oh my. I'd best stop that, I'll get too excited then realise I have far too long before that can happen.

It's dead quiet now in Kids club, in fact today we've had one child in. it's set to be like this for the rest of the season til we get home now. a bitof bad news though, the manager is now leaving at the end of september, pfft. I may have to push her over and steal her passport. it'll be ok though.

More bad news aswel, Nana Flo isn't very well. she's not sick, just in a bit of pain and having loads of tests.

Talk soon my loves x

Pedagogy is a funny word / I am a geek.

Super geek alert!

Little sis sent me out some things this week, I have never been as happy, although she did send me the wrong top ( :-( ) She also sent me chocolate (always appreciated) a weird Panda thing to make and one of my uni books, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Frier.

I was supposed to read it at the start of last term, so I'm a little late in discovering the really interesting (but hard to read) work of Mr Frier, I'd heard of his theories from lecture so bits of it ring familiar to me. The thing is, once you have read (and reread) a chapter its like 'DING!' ohhh yeah!

I think it's the first chapter which is about the oppressed beating oppression and their oppressors and it talks about violence. So I start thinking about Libya and Egypt and their uprising and Iraq and things, the book says that the oppressed never start violence, that it all comes from the oppressors somewhere down the line. It also says that to be Unoppressed, the oppressed must not oppress their oppressors (see why its a bit hard to follow, this isnt just the way i speak) and other people who aren't oppressed cant facilitate/lead their freedom (that make sense?) so for instance, you could say, Iraq, the argument that the army was going in the help the people who were being oppressed and shat on by their 'Government' is bull, and that the people in Iraq just became oppressed by us rather that Saddam Hussain and his cronies.

And another chapter, his one on education and oppression, It's like, exactly how I think! He compares two methods of teaching, Banking and Dialogical (may have the titles wrong there) basically that most school and teaching is like churning out kids from a sausage factory, you fill them up with facts with no meaning or discovery behind them, Dialogue is more about enquiry and two way learning between class and teacher and learning things because they interest you.

What a frikkin geek I am, I'm so glad she sent it out though, Kudos to you sis. you know when you start to feel like your brain is starting to melt a little bit from not exercising it enough? well I've woken it up.

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