which was just as well, cos i had my first really ghastly tute with the first years today. we started 'the life of pi' and they had nothing to say about it. massive amounts of awkward silences and me blathering hopelessly. the other TAs had the same experience. eck! just as well the prof didn't sit in like she was going to. i shall have something fabulous and creative organised for next week (when she's sitting in), something that allows them no room to move at all.
okay, have to go read two versions of "dr faustus" (he sold his soul to the devil, the bad man!) plus all the crit in the norton edition and some other stuff and procrastinate marking essays.
(least i sound like a miseryguts, i should also point out that today also involved copious amounts of gossiping with eleanor, whining in chorus with the other TAs and then beer and vegie burgers at the pub after class)
and this is just to show that it's not all pastoral glory up here. these are a couple of views on my way to the dinner last night:
this is the science centre - it's like an enormous golfball covered in little lights. very speccy and a good navigation tool.
and this is a trolleybus (bottom) and a skytrain (above). the trolleybuses are quite endearing, like trams on wheels.
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i wouldn't have much to say about the life of pi - it is a funny non-book kind of book
jsut read HJ Hyland's latest - was on the shortlist for the Booker, but didn't win
can't remember its name - carry me down? - but it was very very good - inside a boy's mad brain - my kind of plot
i gave them group work and directed questions and writing on the board and a book review! what more do they want???
haven't heard of hj hayland. should i look out for it?
I decided I'd better read Salt fish girl, but have discovered that it "is not yet held in an Australian library". But will eventually get hold of it. Can't have you talking about something I know absolutely nothing about
Ps
Love the night photos. Am still looking for a digital camera!!
hmm. 'salt fish girl' is 2002. you'd think it would be out in aus. you could try her earlier one: 'when fox is a thousand'. pub 1995, reprinted 2004. but they're both pretty obscure, i think.
you needn't read my books, jt! there are masses of them, apart from anything else. also what i enjoy deconstructing may not necessarily be what you enjoy reading.
have you read the hj hyland grot mentioned?
the nightime photos aren't too bad, this time. it's hard to get them in focus. it's pretty much the only flaw of hte camera. it was on special cos pentax or whoever had just launched an updated version. has bbb told you about the camera review websites?
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