My OperaGot my Prac Placement....
Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:30:18 PM
I finally got my Professional Experience placement information today. I can't wait. I will be assigned to a year 5/6 combined class, so it's going to be very interesting. I've been waiting all week for this information, and I have organised to meet my colleague teacher next week.This is great news. I was kind of nervous calling up and talking to her; which is pretty ridiculous, but it's the first time I am going into an environment for two weeks where I will be expected to do quite a lot of observation and expected to run some practical exercises. It's going to be fun...
I just hope that I can keep myself together and be Zen about it.
Speaking of Zen... My JW friend dropped by today. I was kind of expecting him to bring his wife along, because I had been talking to her on the telephone last night and she mentioned that she had asked her husband if she could come along but for some reason or another, she has not been... And did not come today either. I like these folks as people. I will not be converting to being a Jehovah's Witness, but I do appreciate the genuine attitude that they have and the courage they have in going from home to home in an attempt to preach the Word. Whether it is the correct version of the Word is debatable, but like I said, I like them as people.
I am not sure if they just drop around in a vain attempt to hope I might have a moment of weakness and convert or something... Or if they are just genuinely happy to come along and debate scripture. I'm hedging towards the former, which is a shame. I would like to think that they could see that the guy who started their religion made false prophecy after false prophecy. Why they blindly follow only the literature of their own Watchtower organisation I will never understand. One needs to read the Bible to understand it, not read material that poses questions and then answers them in the context in which the Watchtower bosses deem them to be answered. No doubt they are dedicated and biblical scholars to some extent, but a lot of their belief systems, such as the idea that Jesus Christ returned to earth invisibly in 1914, doesn't wash with me.
Anyway, enough about me.... I took the two eldest kids to see 'Kung Fu Panda' tonight and they loved it. It was a funny movie, but unfortunately, these days they tend to show the funniest parts in the trailers - there are still, however, some very good parts to the movie. I would give it 4 out of 5 or so.
Ciao!
