Today I am feeling somewhat akin to jetlag. I am three nights into my new schedule of night baby duty, and it is finally catching up to me.
Today was lovely... I spent the majority of it working on homework at a coffee shop, but mostly chatting with a friend online and friends who came in to the shop. It was lovely. The hustle and bustle of bodies in the shop left as quickly as it came. Suddenly I looked around and it was back to what this place looked like at 10am--my friend Kyndra and I with our MacBook Pros, getting some work done. I pulled out my textbook again, after giving up on getting any studying done with all the people here, and suddenly fatigue hit me like an ocean's wave during high tide. Then, one of the sentences from my textbook really resonated with me: "The learner makes meaning when he or she exhibits an 'inherent passion' for what is to be learned" (Vacca, Richard: Content Area Reading, 9th ed., p. 188). In my state of pseudo jet-lag from my abrupt schedule change, I realized that I am not currently exhibiting "inherent passion" for the subject, thus meaning will not be made. Beautiful: I have a solid reason to stop studying from the text which I am studying!
Ok, time to go teach English to nurses at a hospital. Lord, give me energy to get through the lesson! Anyway, I just had to share that comical moment. I may be the only one who finds this funny, but hopefully someone out there extracts some enjoyment from it. :)
2 comments:
Stephanie I think that was a great reason not to continue to study and do homework and one that I am now sure I will use myself in the near future. I will apologize though if I do not pass it onto my students for there are days when it seems they have enough excuses to not study without me adding to them.I do apprecaite you sharing though and the laugh.
Thanks for sharing such Blog. One of the worst parts of air travel is dealing with jet lag. Most people attempt to avoid it like the plague, with little success.
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