A productive day

A very productive day today. I went to an introduction meeting for the new tutors in English Language and got very freaked out. Not having ever been a tutee, I don’t know what to expect in a tutorial – and then the first thing they want me to discuss is phonetics which I consider my weak point. Fortunately W.B., who has years of teaching experience with sixth-formers, took me through it and it doesn’t seem too bad now. My first tutorial is on Friday afternoon. Bring ’em on!

Office
I also moved into my office today. There’s four of us sharing it, and then there’s four other rooms with a varying number of people in it, so it’s quite busy in the building. It’s a top floor flat and through the small window you can look out over the city. I have no idea which direction we’re facing, but I think I could see Arthur’s Seat. Which doesn’t make sense cause the side Arthur’s Seat is on should be solid brick wall. I can’t figure it out cause it’s a spiral staircase and I have no idea how many times I’ve gone round by the time I arrive at the top floor; and then I am not exactly sure of the flat layout.

We were issued with computers. Not the fantastic shiny new MiniMacs that they have in the university library now – no, old massive coal-driven PCs. The best thing of all is that they didn’t seem to come with a monitor. Once they do, it’ll probably be equally massive CRT screens. Oh well, you can’t have it all I suppose, and I have a working computer at home anyway. Plus I tend to hand-write notes, so what do I really need a computer at the office for?

Work
Work continues on the same note as the previous days. Stuff on language shift, stuff on early French language policies. What I’ve read today echoes the stuff I read earlier. To me that’s a sign that I’m on the right way. There’s some more books that I have to take out still, but I think by the end of the week I should be able to make a nice overview and see where I’ll be going from there.

Dem class
Tonight is Bob’s class and dem class. With Bob being away in Firbush, N.W. is taking the class, so it’s technically not Bob’s class. When N.W. agreed to doing it, he said “It’ll be fun”, and I think it will be. Will N.W. be able to challenge F.C.’s number of attendees tonight? The publicity drive they did on Thursday seems to have worked so far...

Dem class will have a new teacher, L.G. She replaces L.G., just to make things nice and clear. L.G. (the new one) is from the RSCDS Dunfermline, and apparently she’s heard about the New Scotland rendition of Mairi’s Wedding. I’m sure we can reassure her that we know the difference between demming poshly and dancing for sheer fun. I thought the version we did at the IALS dem last Thursday was RSCDS-approved, but apparently one is supposed to pass left shoulder in the Mairi’s Wedding reels. I suppose RSCDS dancers go a wee bit slower than we do so they don’t fly out of the turn...

At dem class I will also need to ask J.G. if he and his band can play for the two cèilidhs this term that A.K. couldn’t play for. I hope he’s available; otherwise I’ll need to find out the telephone numbers for some of the other bands on our list.

Boring
According to a test I did at LiveJournal, my LiveJournal is annoying because I’m boring. I dont’t have a LiveJournal, but I am thinking this goes for my Blogger blog as well. It just looks better.