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Feb. 6th, 2019 05:38 pmI'm teaching a new course this period. It's a CLIL course together with Biology. I thought it starts next week, but no! It starts tomorrow. Oops? Lucky me, lesson one is sort of easy to pull out of thin air.
Listen, flist. I want to make my students read some sci-fi. Hit me with recommendations of good/classic science fiction short stories in English that are available for free online. I've got The Veldt by Ray Bradbury first on my list, but what else? I'd like to make them read Gibson (for no other reason that I like Gibson, to be honest, but I don't have to tell them that) but availability is an issue.
January Journal questions:
Oh, this one is easy. I was a telemarketer for the first year after I moved to Turku and out of my parents' house. I hadn't gotten into University on my first try (entry into Finnish universities is exclusively by entrance exam), but I didn't want to spend a year at home doing nothing. I wanted to Be an Adult and Live My Own Life. Up until then, my only job had been working during harvest with my parents. Working the harvest includes 12-hour days of physical labour in hot barns while being stung by various insects and itching from the dust and hay. It's grueling, unpredictable, stressful and uncomfortable. I don't like physical labour at all. But I would make it my freaking career at the drop of a hat, rather than ever have to work in telemarketing ever again.
Somewhere between 9 am and noon. It's light outside, and the day is still full of potential. It's when I'm at my smartest, I find.
Metsän äiti (Mother of the Forest) by Anne Leinonen. It's a liminal fantasy novel, and I love it to pieces. When/if translated to English at some point, I urge everyone to pick it up.
The Captive Prince by C.S Pacat. It's, uhm. It's nice.
Listen, flist. I want to make my students read some sci-fi. Hit me with recommendations of good/classic science fiction short stories in English that are available for free online. I've got The Veldt by Ray Bradbury first on my list, but what else? I'd like to make them read Gibson (for no other reason that I like Gibson, to be honest, but I don't have to tell them that) but availability is an issue.
January Journal questions:
24. What's the worst job you ever had? /![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
machinistm
machinistmOh, this one is easy. I was a telemarketer for the first year after I moved to Turku and out of my parents' house. I hadn't gotten into University on my first try (entry into Finnish universities is exclusively by entrance exam), but I didn't want to spend a year at home doing nothing. I wanted to Be an Adult and Live My Own Life. Up until then, my only job had been working during harvest with my parents. Working the harvest includes 12-hour days of physical labour in hot barns while being stung by various insects and itching from the dust and hay. It's grueling, unpredictable, stressful and uncomfortable. I don't like physical labour at all. But I would make it my freaking career at the drop of a hat, rather than ever have to work in telemarketing ever again.
Somewhere between 9 am and noon. It's light outside, and the day is still full of potential. It's when I'm at my smartest, I find.
Metsän äiti (Mother of the Forest) by Anne Leinonen. It's a liminal fantasy novel, and I love it to pieces. When/if translated to English at some point, I urge everyone to pick it up.
The Captive Prince by C.S Pacat. It's, uhm. It's nice.
