No Day But Today...

Basically, with the exception of my presentation, today was a complete waste of 2 hours in traveling on the bus to get to school.  As a cohort we made a unanimous decision that because our drama class was certifiably canceled (our prof is in Vancouver for the Olympics because she won a spot for her aerial-artistry video, which can be viewed here), we would take the whole morning off to get work done and not go to the dreaded Aboriginal Education class. For those new to my blog, please do not see that last comment as a sign of racism or read into anything that could stem from that.  I would have loved to have learn about how to integrate Aboriginal (or I suppose now classified as Indigenous Peoples) traditions, beliefs and culture into my future classroom, what those traditions, beliefs and cultures are and the meanings behind them, etc, however, with this instructor, that is sadly not the case.  Our first class was spent almost in entirety with him making verbal attacks at the class at large (a predominant portion of which are Caucasian) about what "our people" did to "his people" at which point I lost complete respect for him and what he was teaching.  Apparently it hasn't gotten much better according to the few who still attend his class every now and then. It's a shame because he is perpetuating exactly what having courses like this were supposed to dissuade.  Anyways....before I get to riled up about that topic, which I have plenty to say about, let's continue.

We all decided to skip the morning to begin work on several of the 6 projects and/or papers that we have due within the next week and a half.  Happily, I got quite a bit of one finished today, found a shwack (yes, that's a word in my dictionary) of research for a paper, and begun thinking about another paper. In essence, my morning was a success.  Zoom forward to this afternoon.  I did my presentation, and it was all fine and dandy for that half hour, then the prof took over and it was a complete snooze-fest.  I'm usually really involved in her class, but for some reason today, everything she said just went right over my head and I couldn't catch on to anything.  In the following class, we proceeded to do something rather useless that honestly would not have affected us for the better or for the worse had we not been there.  All in all, I could have stayed home today and gotten a heck of a lot more accomplished.  Glad I did the presentation however...she seemed to like it and was nodding a lot when I stated points that I had felt were really pivotal points anyway, so that made me feel confident about it.

On a MUCH more positive note.....CANADA WON AGAINST RUSSIA tonight!!! =D