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The Sub

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Yay! I’m a substitute teacher! That is right, ladies and gentlemen, I taught for the first time on Friday, so now I can add teaching to my rather odd list of work experience. Although, I have to admit, it was rather like being a camp leader because pretty much I just had to keep them on task and busy and not running crazy wild around the school. The kids were all pretty good and there was nothing too challenging. I had a band class and 2 PE classes of grade 9 and 10s. The school was the one my step mum works at and Dad subs there sometimes too. So when I introduced myself to the classes, it was always pretty funny. I think the best was the gr 10 girls:

“Hello, my name is Miss Hoyer” (which sounds weird. Why can’t they just call me Gillian for pete’s sake!) – me
“What is your first name?” – girl #1
“Gillian” – me
“Hey, there is another teacher here with that name” – girl #1
“Yeah, silly, she is the teacher for this class” – girl #2
“Oh yeah, Jill” – girl #1
“What was your name again?” – girl #2
“Miss Hoyer” – me
“Are you related to Mrs Hoyer?” – girl #1. Shall we call her the “bright one”??
“Yes, she is my stepmother, and Mr Hoyer, who also subs here is my father” – me
“HE is your father?!? Woah!” – the bright one
“Yes, and now that we have established that there are teachers at this school with both my first and last names, lets get on with class.” – me

Oy yoy yoy.

School

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So sad leaving Victoria today. I don’t know when I’ll be back next. I love that city! I walked over to campus Monday morning and wandered a bit while I was waiting to hear from a friend when he’d get to town. I was wishing that I was going back again this year – this is the first year in the last 20 that I have not gone back to school in September. Crazy. I realize, however, that the wishing to be at school would last about until my first exam or paper was due if I was indeed returning to school this year. Its a good thing I’m leaving the country and expploring otherwise I’d probably go crazy not knowing what to do with myself.

Study or procrastinate?!?

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While I’m not sure I would resort to the same language, you have to admit, this is pretty darn funny and it answeres the question of what some WaterlooU students do instead of study!

Update: The above link seems to be broken. You can see the picture here. It is the library at WaterlooU.

Jane and Julia’s Recital

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I finally got to hear Jane and Julia play on their own (instead of in the orchestra) yesterday. They put on a fabulous recital with lots of unique elements: There were poetry readings interspersed throughout their performance as well as two flute players who finished up the recital. It was great fun to see them play!

I’ve always liked strings like violin and viola, and they did a great job with their duets (and solo pieces – one of which Allie joined in on)! I wish I could have made it to more concerts throughout the year. Hopefully this won’t be the last! They played music by Mozart, Bach, Hayden, and Bartok. Apparently the Mozart wasn’t very good, but I missed the bad parts. I really liked the Bartok though. Julia’s mum read a poem in Hungarian between Bartok pieces. It was about mosquitoes (I found that out afterwards!) and fit in with the music they played (one was a Mosquito Dance).
Afterwards, they served up some fantastic Middle Eastern and Hungarian food – coffee and dates along with an assortment of baked goodies Julia’s mum made.

1 down, 2 to go…

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I wrote my History in Art exam tonight. It was okay. Although it isn’t a good sign when no one had a clue about one of the questions. At least I wasn’t the only clueless one though! The first question was on the frescoes I wrote my paper on. It was slightly hard to condense all 12 pages of my paper into 1 page of an answer for the question… But at least I knew the answer. I told the prof when I handed the exam in that it was nice to have a question I for sure knew the answer to! She said that she once had it when she put a question on the exam only one student had written on and they were the only one to get it wrong… I’m pretty sure history will not repeat itself here though. Oh, and a side note on where history has repeated itself: I am now firmly entrenched in my conviction that writing a paper the night before it is due is the way to go. I got an A on my Art History paper. I believe I started the writing process the afternoon before it was due, went out for a few hours that night, then came home and wrote the rest. There was only 2 hours of sleep that night, however an A is well worth the effort. Although I think it should have been an A+ – thats what the % works out to anyway. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, and I really had no clue how to write an Art History paper, so I’ll take the A!
After the exam I went over to Cinecenta to watch Good Night, And Good Luck, the George Clooney film about Edward R. Murrow and how he took on Senator McCartney over his communist witch-hunt. It was pretty good. I (obviously) wasn’t around then, but I thought they did a good job of portraying the struggle.
Well, I’m off to Sechelt tomorrow morning. I, somewhat spontaneously, decided to take a couple days over there visiting my friend Nancy. It is her birthday this week… So everyone say happy birthday Nancy!!!

IVCF End of Year Talent Show!

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Last night was the annual end-of-year IVCF BBQ and Talent Show. Below are some of the extraordinarily talented people I have had the good fortune of knowing for the last year!

mmm… bbq…

Steak anyone?

Ryan and his amazing thing-a-majig

How big was that fish Alex?

I AM ALL DONE MY CLASSES FOREVER!!!

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Sorry, I got a little carried away there… but it is an exciting day! Exactly 2 months from yesterday will be convocation (yes, they make us wait forever!), but the last day of classes was today. No more sitting through endless hours of lectures wishing I either had a coffee, pillow, or was not there (okay, I did enjoy some of the classes), no more biking to class at 8am in the rain (yes, dispite what I like to believe, it does rain in Victoria sometimes), no more exams… well, three finals to go, but who is counting?
Yippee!

Countdown To Last Day of Classes

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