Saturday, October 15, 2011

What a Week? Where Did It Go? - Week 3

As Monday dawned here in Sri Lanka, I was logging into the home page of our’s several times to see if this week's material are available. After trying several impatient attempts here they are!!! I was enthusiastic to have them all, but when I went down the page I felt bit suffocative to see a load of reading materials piled up together. When I read Donn's instructions for the week I knew she expected us to comment on one thing, out of many. But to select the one thing I had to read the whole lot. As I love my reading I was not to miss any. Therefore, I thought of going from the very first reading material.

All of a sudden a thought stuck me. Why should I start with reading first, why can't I make my Delicious Pages? This led me to be the first person to create Delicious Pages. I was quite happy with my achievement and read again Donna's post to realize that I should add links as well. While trying to add links something went wrong and I immediately deleted my Delicious Pages. That's why most of you might have not seen my name on the top of the list! Then I added my links and did well, but still I was having problems in logging from my URL. I was medalling with this Delicious 'food' for so long and forgotten my other duties to fulfil.

I was stressed in remembering my pile of reading to do. On top of it, I was compelled to sacrifice two days due to a personal matter. After losing those valuable hours plus my Delicious pages not opening to my colleagues and Donna, I was at a loss. I knew that I've got the weekend too, but I'm not a last minute person who rushes through to do things. My style is to start early and finish almost everything by Friday and to relax until the next thing start. But this week it didn't happen in the normal way and I'm still at work on Saturday night instead of reading my novel by the bedside! All in all, hopefully I'm at the end of submitting all the assignments due for week 3.

When I look back, I'm quite satisfied with the material we acquainted, the new techniques we discovered etc. I was quite amazed to discover my Delicious pages. My favourite sites are just a click away from any online computer either at home or at work, which is very convenient. I'd love to do more exploration in adding things to make it better. A BIG thank you always goes to our Dear teacher for piling up all these attractive stuff for us to get amazed by.

I felt sad for not reading and digesting all the reading stuff provided. Time constrain prevented me from analysing and digesting the contents well. But as we got the links and the reading intact with us, we could leisurely go through them to discover more wonders.

At the same time I'm very grateful to Donna for exposing us to the Project Reports written by the past participants. It gave a rough idea on what type of studies we have to think and plan. If we go back and read again these reports carefully, I'm sure we could learn and add more things to our future endeavours.

As one more day is left for me from this week, I think still I'm ahead of my work. I'm sure I'll have time to read my novel, do some Sunday cooking for the family and get ready to face the Week 4!

Thanks everybody who helped me in sending posts and comments my way. Donna, thanks in million for the correct guidance and kind concern extended towards us. Anticipate more challenging stuff for the coming week!

Have A fantastic Weekend My Dear Friends!





7 comments:

  1. Hi Chandy,
    I think I share with you my passion of reading. I aloso read all the material we were provided by our teacher(Donna). Among all of them I chose the one of "Authentic Materials", especially about Listening. What do you think about this skill?
    Take care.
    Esteban Mallqui

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  2. Hi Chandy!
    Despite all the hurdles in your way, you finally made it! You've earned yourself 'delicious' congratulations!

    Muhammad Rashid

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  3. Hi Esteban,

    I'm glad to meet another reader. Thanks for visiting my corner. As for your question on listening, if you read my post on Listening hope you'll get the answer. If I'm wrong there, please let me know.

    Using authentic material of native speakers is bit hard for my students. But gradually we have to train them to understand native speakers.

    Chandy

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  4. Hi Rashid,

    Yes, you are correct. I made it. Relaxed a bit, read my book, watch rugby semi-finals between All Blacks vs Wallerbies. As always my favourites are the handsome All Blacks, and they won. What else can you expect other than that.

    Hope you had a good weekend too.

    Chandy

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  5. Hi Chandy,
    Congratulations for having been the first person to post at least once. I've never but I hope I will. Though it requires me to spend at least a sleepless night as some of my colleagues start the day when it's night!!

    I read the title of your post: "What a Week? Where Did It Go? - Week 3" and liked it very much!Where did our week go?

    Hope you have had a week wonderful weekend.

    Regards
    Richard

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  6. Hi Chandy,

    Well done. Liked your reflections. They are true indeed. By the way, I also had a lot thinking to do in reading the articles.

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  7. Hi Richard & Tariq,

    Thanks for visiting my corner. It was a very hectic time for me other than the previous two weeks. I hope we all made it at the end.

    Richard, we all could be the first ones one day. Just do what you like at once. That's what I did to realise I was the first to post.

    Anyway Guys, get ready for week 4. We don't know what awaits all of us!

    Have a Pleasant Week ahead!

    Chandy

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