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Nov. 2nd, 2004 07:54 pmi am not missing the tv as much as i thought i might. The cable company provides satellite radio too, so i can listen. i was listening to the classic rock station and then i finally realized why those golden oldies didn't sound the way i remembered. i can't swear to it, but i believe the classic station is out of the PI. None of the songs are by the original artists. They are all Philipno wannabes. They barely know the English language and don't really understand or know the words of the songs they are singing. They listen to the real deal and then produce sounds that approximate what they are hearing. Some of them are pretty good, got the sound down fine, but the vocal is just a tad bit off. Once i figured that out, i found it tiresome to listen to because i was always trying to hear the mistake. So now i listen to popular classical. There is not so much that can be done to that music.
Clouds and thunder in Iraq. Can rain and lightening be far behind?
i walked out of my girls' nursing class today. They were out of control. i do not yell in my classroom. And after telling the girls that more times than i can count, i finally spoke softer and softer and softer and told them i was leaving. They were talking during a quiz, and wouldn't hand their papers in when i asked, as well as being just plane rude. A group of girls came running out after me saying please miss please miss just one more chance. Nada. So, they tried to end run me. The girls whose quizzes i did not collect gave them to another teacher and asked her to give them to me. Didn't work. And it won't work if they go to the head of the department either, cuz i already explained the situation to her too. i hope i made my point. Nothing much is lost by this today, and the girls whose quizzes aren't graded won't lose out either, because we give 7 of them and throw out the worst 4.
Nothing like babying the little dears, but nursing is such an unpopular profession in this country we are cautioned to to everything possible to keep the students in the program. So, i think i won't be getting sick while i'm in this country. i want to be reasonably sure that the person who is assigned the duty of taking my temp if i am ever in hospital knows the difference between my elbow and my ear.
Short day tomorrow and then my weekend starts. And maybe i won't be sleeping alone tomorrow night.
i'm toying with the idea of going home during spring break. i am thinking about that because i am really thinking about going to France this summer to study the language. i got the Elderhostel program catalogue in the mail the other day and have been drooling over the programs available. There are three for Ireland that i am also considering. The timing is not so good for them as the language study program is. i am having a wee guilt problem, though. Is it fair of me to not go back in the summer and instead do something that is pure pleasure? If i go home early next year, and then go again next next spring, and then get back to the summer schedule would that satisfy the guilt? (a rhetorical question, i'm sure there is no definitive answer.) If i wait until Mother is gone, i might not have the ability to do the things i want. If i do them, can i live with my feelings of guilt? A tough question.
Clouds and thunder in Iraq. Can rain and lightening be far behind?
i walked out of my girls' nursing class today. They were out of control. i do not yell in my classroom. And after telling the girls that more times than i can count, i finally spoke softer and softer and softer and told them i was leaving. They were talking during a quiz, and wouldn't hand their papers in when i asked, as well as being just plane rude. A group of girls came running out after me saying please miss please miss just one more chance. Nada. So, they tried to end run me. The girls whose quizzes i did not collect gave them to another teacher and asked her to give them to me. Didn't work. And it won't work if they go to the head of the department either, cuz i already explained the situation to her too. i hope i made my point. Nothing much is lost by this today, and the girls whose quizzes aren't graded won't lose out either, because we give 7 of them and throw out the worst 4.
Nothing like babying the little dears, but nursing is such an unpopular profession in this country we are cautioned to to everything possible to keep the students in the program. So, i think i won't be getting sick while i'm in this country. i want to be reasonably sure that the person who is assigned the duty of taking my temp if i am ever in hospital knows the difference between my elbow and my ear.
Short day tomorrow and then my weekend starts. And maybe i won't be sleeping alone tomorrow night.
i'm toying with the idea of going home during spring break. i am thinking about that because i am really thinking about going to France this summer to study the language. i got the Elderhostel program catalogue in the mail the other day and have been drooling over the programs available. There are three for Ireland that i am also considering. The timing is not so good for them as the language study program is. i am having a wee guilt problem, though. Is it fair of me to not go back in the summer and instead do something that is pure pleasure? If i go home early next year, and then go again next next spring, and then get back to the summer schedule would that satisfy the guilt? (a rhetorical question, i'm sure there is no definitive answer.) If i wait until Mother is gone, i might not have the ability to do the things i want. If i do them, can i live with my feelings of guilt? A tough question.
