Easy Street

An easy day today, especialy compared with all the hecticness at the beginning of this Filipino group's visit. I taught an hour and a half of poetry, on symbols and metaphor, winding up with the students drawing a tarot card and brainstorming about it, then writing a poem inspired by it.

After the break, we looked at "Ode on a Grecian Urn," which was really nice. Then a bit of jabbering about that, and a dash over to the Ashmolean museum... Which was closed, asit is every Monday, apparently. But no worries--the Eagle and Child is right up the street, so we popped in there for a quick absorption of the CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien "Inklings" atmosphere as well as a cup of coffee. The kids munched down on lunch, and I headed back to school.

The afternoon session was a brief bit on _Julius_Caesar_, which they saw over the weekend, and then writing a film review on _Intolerable_Cruelty_, which we'd watched as a class on Friday afternoon.

Then a couple of hours of looking for conferences for D (who needs a personal assistant for that sort of thing) and some work on the school's British Council accreditation--we're being inspected in August. A nice relaxed day.

Arrived home to the news that D's supervision went well, which was good to hear. This is his second reader, and his first reader is a little hesitant and defensive about D's topic, but apparently this guy is more open to his ideas.

HOWEVER, we're now half an hour late for our Spanish session, so I'd better skeedaddle.

Signing off once again from the handheld (which a friend who will go unnamed has pointed out doesn't have a spell checker--apparently, I wrote "realy" yesterday--oops--to be expected--sorry)...