Kia ora! I am feeling so good about life in New Zealand right now even with hours of homework. Things are going so well with my host family. Cooper and his friend Jason played monopoly deal with Nancy and I today and it was really fun. We got KFC for dinner and it was cool to see how excited Cooper got because it is a treat to get fast food. I had a really hard time staying awake in class and almost nodded off many times. In classes today, we discussed guided reading in the upper grades which I am a little nervous about teaching. We discussed paradoxes during assessment. I find it funny how there is a paradox to everything in life. Knowing that makes life interesting though especially when two people get think oppositely about the same thing. I really enjoyed one of our homework assignments for assessments. It focused on teaching and perspectives. Teachers need to recognize that each person/ student has a different perspective and different experiences. Knowing this and knowing that you increase your knowledge and who you are by taking risks and making impossibilities possible really makes you reflect on learning and life. It reminds me so much of my multicultural class from last semester. The most important thing in the reading though that I feel all people should realize and think about is that the most important things in life cannot be taught. They need to be personally discovered and experienced. My shoes broke today during class, so I walked to the Pack’n save thinking I was going to buy new shoes and to get some snack foods. I am really missing my American candy and gum. Dr. Jacobs ended up offering to take me home so I didn’t have to walk home barefoot. I ended up not buying new flip flops partly because he offered me a ride home and also because it was eight dollars for flip flops that were worth maybe a dollar in the states. Everything is so much more expensive here. I worked on homework most of the night. It is actually pretty intense trying to do a whole semester course in a week. I like how I can get them done in a week though and how I get a New Zealand perspective even with reading and their words centre, programme, and learnt being different. It just widens my learning horizons even more.
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