Up The Crick Without A Paddle

First off, I need a big shout out to my home girl Kitty Kat for giving me the wicked blog title.  She is also up the Crick without a paddle..... and so it begins

I finally got to meet my direct supervisor in the Land Management Department today.  We finalize the courses that I am going to be teaching this coming semester, which starts on Tuesday of next week.  I'm teaching Spatial Information Systems Level 2 and Remote Sensing Level 3.  This is all very exciting, however Remote Sensing has not been taught in the previous years so I am responsible for deriving the course curriculum, lectures, assignments and tests all on my own.  The reason why Kat is also up the crick with me is because she gets the honour of building her own course in the Forestry department.

I know that it will be a great opportunity and such a challenge, but I'm just a little uneasy that I have to have course material ready for July 3rd.  Not to mention I am heading home for a week the following Tuesday so I have to develop lectures for about 10 hours of class for two courses that I will be missing.

It is really exciting to be getting this opportunity, because I diving back into to all these great textbooks that I haven't opened since I was finished University and College!  I have all these great ideas, but it just comes down to developing a good way to present it in a building block sort of way!  It is awesome that we can use these awesome new projectors that we brought for the department. Hello Power Point Presentations!!!

I haven't been blogging lately, because there hasn't been that much happening.  I have tried some fried plantains which are also known as cooking bananas.  Cut them up really thin and fry them up with some salt, they're not bad.  Nsima is this maize dish that looks like mashed potatoes, but I'm thinking that I would rather stick with my potatoes.

This weekend is Canada day, and the roommates and I are heading back up to the lake at Nkhata Bay for some relaxation and dance parties!! Our friend Alice who owns the Butterfly Space is going to pick us up in town in the late afternoon.  We get to go on another Malawi truck bed adventure! This should be interesting.

Might I add, my birthday is in 7 days today!! That is all  :)

EmJ