Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts
Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Being a vector
Prime vectors of disease: the father who goes out to work while the rest of the family is prone, and the mother who goes to the supermarket to stock up on crisps and washing up liquid as soon as she feels well enough and both the children are well enough to leave behind for 40 minutes.
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
My first Arabic class
I am so proud of myself for getting onto the Beginners Arabic class. We squeezed into a classroom which would have been fine for the 6 the teacher was expecting, but very cosy for the 16 who piled in yesterday evening.
Our homework is to buy our text book and listen to Al Jazeera Arabic and BBC Arabic. I hope we continue as bright eyed and keen as last night. I shall try to arrive early enough to chat with the others before the next class.
I ordered my book online and nearly got myself a book of grammar and handwriting too. They are in my wish list now!
Be warned, I hope to do some blog posts in Arabic.
Our homework is to buy our text book and listen to Al Jazeera Arabic and BBC Arabic. I hope we continue as bright eyed and keen as last night. I shall try to arrive early enough to chat with the others before the next class.
I ordered my book online and nearly got myself a book of grammar and handwriting too. They are in my wish list now!
Be warned, I hope to do some blog posts in Arabic.
Friday, 11 May 2012
Forgive the gruesome blogs I follow
Since finding Al Jezeera last year and becoming gripped by the important events in the Arab Spring I have added relevant blogs to my sidebar. This is nothing to do with home education, but this blog is for me rather than for the home ed community.
There are some very graphic photos only a few clicks away. I am getting used to a level of detail I would not have expected before.
The same warning goes for the anti-death penalty blogs, not for photos, but for eye-witness accounts. The reality is so shocking and real-time.
A little of what I read about gets into my conversations during our home educating life, not much though. One comment goes a very long way, judging from my memories of one-off statements by my parents years ago. I am 31 and 33 years older than T and H, so my interior life is utterly different from theirs. I am experiencing the generation gap from this position as a parent.
However, I could not home educate without my own varied interests and passions. They are crucial, even though they have only sprung up as the children have come to give me time alone in which to pursue them. It has not been the other way round in our case. I could not have imagined the amount of brain space I have to attend to other matters. Perhaps home educating has been the creator of this space and time?
There are some very graphic photos only a few clicks away. I am getting used to a level of detail I would not have expected before.
The same warning goes for the anti-death penalty blogs, not for photos, but for eye-witness accounts. The reality is so shocking and real-time.
A little of what I read about gets into my conversations during our home educating life, not much though. One comment goes a very long way, judging from my memories of one-off statements by my parents years ago. I am 31 and 33 years older than T and H, so my interior life is utterly different from theirs. I am experiencing the generation gap from this position as a parent.
However, I could not home educate without my own varied interests and passions. They are crucial, even though they have only sprung up as the children have come to give me time alone in which to pursue them. It has not been the other way round in our case. I could not have imagined the amount of brain space I have to attend to other matters. Perhaps home educating has been the creator of this space and time?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
