New scholar year 09/10
A new scholar year started. Our RPI campus is like a bee hive. Is so exciting and refreshing to see the students with backpacks full of books and laptops. I volunteered at the laptop distribution. Each student receives a laptop and backpack assorted.
Faculty came back to campus, got ready their syllabus, met the new class of students, and set up the Fall 09 schedules.
I REALLY miss the excitement of the first week of classes, I miss meeting with students, learning new names and faces, explaining the syllabus, setting up teams, starting a new adventure on the planet of Knowledge.
I think I missed my call, I thought I don't like teaching, but I definitely do. Yes, there were some struggles, but here at RPI I know what was not going well. I was teaching to another audience. My teaching style would be perfect here for the students who are competitive and are used to working hard and at fast pace. There are some junior courses that are much more difficult and demand more than my graduate courses did (and my students were complaining I ask too much!). I would love to teach to this audience of students.
Is odd to not have a class, to not meet my class of students.
And since I miss so much school, I am taking (!) a course in Acess-Excel. I never took a course in Excel so here it is the opportunity. I might not have the time to do everything is required, then I will be gone to a workshop and later a conference, so I will miss some classes. But at least I will be involved (in some way) in the teaching-learning process.
I miss teaching!
Taylor
Here a slide show with Taylor in Yaddo Garden in Saratoga Springs, NY.
The photographer is Tracey --- she is a great phographer!
Here her webs:
Tracey Buyce Photography
www.traceybuyce.com
www.traceybuyce.blogspot.com
518.441.2704
more pics
In the Spring when we first visited Yaddo gardens Taylor got to be in some professional picture taking.
I liked so much Tracey's pictures that I asked her to make some more for Taylor.
You can see some of her work here:
Tracey Buyce Photography
www.traceybuyce.com
www.traceybuyce.blogspot.com
518.441.2704
4th of July 2009
I am so bad on posting to this blog.... I gues it is because of Yahoo messenger and e-mail and phone... no more need of blog when I tell all by e-mail and phone.
Anca (our Romanian friend who graduated from SIUE and got a job in Boston, MA-- started January 2009) came to visit us.
We went up to Lake George and cruised the streets and beach, it was a very nice sunny and breezy day.
Coming home we stopped at Yaddo gardens and we took pictures with the flowers.
Muky 1996-2009
Muky -- with us 1996-2009
our little black dog I brought home in 1996 rescued from the streets where she was beaten and a neighbor in Cluj gone to a conference to Alba-Iulia found her laying in the corner of the building she had the conference.
Dr. Ioana Bogdan-Cataniciu rescued Muky, but in the apartment they had already two dogs so I took Muky home to my parents. The Veterinarian said that Muky was pregnant with puppies and someone kicked in her belly, and if Ioana would not take her home and to the Vet immediately to have a C-section and take the dead puppies out then the dog would have died very soon. At that time the Vet said she was 1 or 1 1/2 years old.
At first Muky did not let any man approach (most likely was kicked by a man), but then with care and patience she got attached to my Dad. She was my Dad's loved dog, always following him like a shadow.
Muky most likely was by now 16 years old.
Muky got sick and paralyzed suddenly of her back legs. My mom took care of her like you care for a baby, but in the last week she could not stand up at all she was falling back and did not want to eat. Medication did not help at all.
She asked the Veterinarian to come and put Muky to sleep, but the Vet said that they are not allowed by law (Romanian laws) to put any animal to sleep.
Mom said that it was heart breaking since he said that he does not have any cure for Muky and she most likely will die paralyzed.
There was a struggle to keep her in her misery or let her go...
The only way they could save her was to ask our neighbor with a hunting gun to help out.
It is outrageous what laws can do, I cannot imagine that they let animals suffer and die like that.
Mom says that other people put their dog or cat in a sac and in sac a big stone, tie it up and go to the big river Mures and throw it in so the stone drains the animal. Or go in the forest and abandon the dying animal in the middle of nowhere to die or be eaten by wolfs.
I cannot believe that a "do not kill" law is going so far to put owners of pets into such a heart breaking situation. Not only do they loose their pet but they have to use extreme methods that make their pain even stronger.
My parents wanted to bury at home Muky as we did with all our dogs buried in the corner of our garden. So painful, so bad laws. Someone needs to change them. I understand they fight for "do not kill" shelters but to make an animal suffer so much or be killed in much pain that is not animal protection either!!!!
I am heart broken!
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Muky rest in peace!
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