An extra day is just what I needed to finish recovering from this bug. Other than class yesterday and a trip to the British Museum, I spent Monday and Tuesday reading, sleeping, writing, and resting. Today after the faculty meeting, I packed for tomorrow's trip to Barcelona!!
In the past three days I read 5 novels, three work related books and a vast number of articles interrupted by naps. A serious reading binge with intervals of intense paperwork--administrivia, for the most part.
I do feel 95% recovered. I leave early tomorrow with bag packed to deposit at campus before meeting up with students in Kensington Gardens. Many of the students have departed tonight for Spring Break (which really begins after class tomorrow through Tuesday). One group is off to Munich and Berlin, another group off to Barcelona, another group to Ireland, yet another group to Lisbon.
I am really enjoying the esprit de corps of this group. It is very different to use the City as our laboratory and to rely on students' observations of one another to fuel class discussions. In Social Interaction this week, the students brought their Myers Briggs profile and we discussed how certain preferences can clash with other preferences. They had so many examples from the past few weeks of the different ways folks process information, etc. It make the discussion much more energetic that we all have come to "know" each others' eccentricities. The overall morale is very high and that makes it 100% more fun.
About nine of the student arranged a Paris outing last weekend on a bus!! It was 44 BPS for the round trip on the bus and ferry--they left Friday am and returned an hour before class Monday looking like rats off a ship. But they had a great adventure.
I meet my sister, Patty, in Barcelona and the rest will be captured in photos.
Hasta pronto, mi companeros.
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