Entries this day: Morning Swimming get_meeting

Morning

2:46pm ICT Monday 30 May 2005

So far today it's been pretty busy, but the beginning inital crazy week is nearly over. Maybe it is over, if one counts the rest of the day as not crazy. We had the GET Open House, where we divided the students into what will likely be their classes, and showed them around the ship a bit. I felt a bit childish as I didn't have the instructions given to each leader so I ended up following Greg, and not being my own little group. I heard that we were going to be in one big group but we were also going to be in little subgroups. The good things I did were lead good group games (thanks to YRUU and _New Games For The Whole Family_ book) and get back to the room on time.

After that we scoped our class rosters and shuffled a couple students around according to who seemed to fit better in other places, とか いろいろ, and that was a pretty easy process. I flipped a coin because I trust the universe to choose better classes than I could (basically split 10 people who I've only vaguely met into 2 groups), though I gave myself veto rights. I have class Q and class R, and on our first class day I plan to have us make up team/class names and play lots of name games. I'd like to help our classes bond tightly together. Similar to my men's group, but I'm open to it being less intense.

2:52pm

Right now I've got iPhoto open in the background, and would like to integrate photos in with my journal entries, and have a program in mind to help write the HTML code for that, but I'm resisting and going to work on my first two class lesson plans.

(pm JST Wednesday 28 September 2005: and I didn't actually start that process until today.)

Swimming

4:34pm ICT Monday 30 May 2005

I've gotten a good start on my first lesson plan, and a bit of a template for all my lessons. That was a big hurdle for me: just getting started. Going for a swim now. I've got my underwater camera case!

5:58pm

Best fun ever!

get meeting

7:09pm ICT Monday 30 May 2005

GET meeting was not the best fun ever. I lost a contact in the pool and figured I could get along fine with just one eyeball able to see clearly. I basically did, and I'm basically just being down on myself right now, but I have a fear that I'm not "keeping up with" all the details given out in the meetings. My mind locks onto one thing or gets sidetracked and because Audrey is super genki she talks reallllly fast and when my brain comes back 30 seconds later, important details have flown by.

I'm going to try something: get an extra copy of the meeting agenda (one copy is printed just before each meeting) and see if that helps. I can imagine that I won't keep that up indefinitely; maybe I can bring up that I learn better visually.

After the GET meeting, Matt inquired about me having a GET binder, which turns out are only for the students. I thought it would be good for me to have a copy of what the students have, especially given that we will be creating a custom curriculum for each class.

It's not a huge big deal; I just need to use the binder I brought or get another one and start a new filing system.

I'm good at making filing systems.

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I'm feeling myself need a bit of alone time, which is a bit tricky to get on a crowded cruise ship.

A good thing is that we are just about over the craziness; there is one more party tonight and then we'll be more into a stable schedule.