hazy

in between my two lessons at hammersmith, the 1st of which has a few pain in the arse students, the 2nd of which is easier...

the class i just taught was made possible by the cooked breaked i made for myself this morning, made possible in turn by the bread that dinah went out to the shops to get before she went to college...

i've been slightly under the shadow of a cold/flu thing this week, tuesday was a bit rough, a sore throat coming on throughout the day and then feeling really weak in the evening, dinah came to jai krishna with me (no small thing for her, she claims to dislike indian food) and then in tesco afterwards i was struck by some kind of leg cramp that would have been pretty bleak had dinah not been there to make me smile...

but i'm warding it off though, but i'm a little hazy right now, with my second wave of students coming in...

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ok, 2nd class done and i'm feeling pretty done in... the cycle journey home should perk me up though...

glad to be going home...

it's such a different learning enviroment over here than @ londonbridgework, just the way the place is set up, having said that i have my first keyboard classes with londonbridgework tomorrow and no doubt they will be just as difficult just to prove me wrong...

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gear change

after such a lazy day yesterday it was hard getting up this morning to go to work and all through the day i was swinging from focused to vague in a way that was obvious to my students... they didn't seem to object however and i gave a good lesson...

at one point i asked them to, at some point in the next hour, write down a sentence that i or someone else said... i got them to work in groups and make rhythms out of these sentences and one group in particular started with a sentence of mine that began:

ok... errr... right... now...

and turn it into a james brown style:

OK! ugh! Right Now!

i was pleased with the workshop, it's a funny one, it serves the function that another teacher takes out the students one by one to assess them, and i teach the same group two different modules throughout the year that pretty much encompases my known workshops, so not only does it kind of not matter, but i don't want to do anything i'm going to repeat later so i often come up with something just for this session... as i did today... successful, if vague...

and then afterwards i took a copy of the london paper and sat by the thames doing the sudoku, very similar to last tuesday, taking pictures of my bike at intervals to try and catch the changing light... the difficult sudoku is so hard in that paper, i don't think i've got one right yet...

popped over to the cafe near dinah's work to see her before she started her last ever tuesday working at that place...

then cycled home as the evening drew in, once more out without lights, must get used to having them with me...

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