Today I wrote up my lesson plan for the new week of online ethics topics for the kids. The topic this week is “Migration” – as in human migration, not animals. A few kids last week when I announced this week’s topic assumed I meant animal migration!
Then I was doing the first class tonight with two kids, a brother and sister, who are American, but currently living on Crete in Greece. I think their father works on a US base there. So they have first-hand experience of what it’s like to move from one country to another. They were saying how the Greek people assume they are tourists, and are reasonably nice to them, but when they say no, they live there, the locals change manner and become more rude to them. I’m not sure why, but maybe because the locals then think they can’t make as much money off them?
I didn’t really go out today. It was raining steadily for most of the day, as we finally caught the tail end of Cyclone Alfred. It was cool too, but should warm up again later in the week.
Last night I finished watching Saving Private Ryan, the first time I’ve seen this film. It’s been on my Netflix to-watch list for ages, but given I have to break even 1:30 movies into two parts to watch over two nights, starting a 3-hour movie always felt difficult. But I bit the bullet when I saw it was leaving Netflix soon, and managed to fit it into three nights of viewing. I can see why it’s so highly regarded. A very powerful and gripping film.
Now to decide what to watch tonight…