Sunday Evening. All Ready to Go.

It is Sunday evening, 8:55 p.m. I should be in bed, as I have to get up at about 4:15 a.m. to get ready to leave for our Rural Experience at Caliche at 4:55 a.m. I am all packed and ready to depart. I think.

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon trying to find some decent Lesson Plans on the Internet. We need to locate an Internet Lesson Plan and convert it for use in a business class for our Methods Class. This is due Tuesday, when we will be at Rural, so I wanted to get it done this afternoon. I got mostly nowhere. I did run across an interesting idea for a lesson plan that involves taking notes for a subject in Haiku. I have always been amused and interested in Haiku, so I almost thought of creating a "Computer Haiku" lesson plan. Students would do some background research on Haiku poetry and forms and then would create Haiku poetry, either on a meaningful personal subject, or regarding computers, if I was feeling crabby. We would then take these poems and transcribe them to our graphics program, where we would recreate the poem and using our graphic brushstrokes, illustrate it.

I was almost half serious.

As I was feeling a little grumpy about my lack of success in creating anything meaningful, I decided to do my own little Haiku and illustrated it. You can see the Haiku in the picture above. Click on the picture to see the work at full size. I think that it shows my feelings regarding the exercise.

I will be staying with Jeff at a family home near Caliche. We will be riding the bus to school with the 8 year old of the family. That should be fun. I haven't been on a school bus in some 25 years. It will be nice to be staying with Jeff. He is young and energetic and entertaining. I hope that his energy and enthusiasm will be contagious.