Today I had a new enrolment in my ongoing Critical & Ethical Thinking class, and the mother also contacted me to request that I schedule my 6-week Creative Thinking & Problem Solving class so that her daughter could do that one too. Cool! I’ve written back to ask what time zone they are in and what their preferences are for a lesson time. I’ve got a reply saying they’re in the US Pacific time zone, which works reasonably well for me, because their preferred early evening hours are late morning for me. So I’ll decide some possible days when I can do it and get back to them, and then schedule the course probably starting around the beginning of February. Hopefully I can get someone else enrolling, because it’s better with more than one student.
Today I worked on lesson plans for two weeks hence: on the topics of “Lying” for ages 10-12, and “The Meaning of Life” for ages 13-15. I managed to complete both of them, helped by the fact that Lying is a refresh of one of the first topics I did back in 2021, which none of my current students have done.
At lunch we all went on a walk to Cammeray and the Italian bakery, where I grabbed a pizza slice for lunch, and a Napoli biscuit for dessert tonight. It was warm and sunny, but not too hot. We still haven’t had a day reach 30°C in Sydney this summer, so the unusually cool summer continues.
Oh, I also spent some time explaining to my wife the current kerfuffle with Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons, and the Open Gaming Licence. Since she was asking me what I was spending so much time chatting with my friends about. (Actually, this might have been yesterday… my weekend kind of got mashed together a bit…)
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