It’s been
quite some time since my last post, mostly that’s contributed to me not being
acclimated to this semester’s schedule yet.
I have been extremely busy with my classes and this being my last
semester at the community college before I transfer to West Chester (hopefully
that is, being I have not heard back from them…), the classes I’m taking are specific. This means I don’t have a choice of when or
even where I take these last four classes.
“Where” is what inspired me to post tonight.
One of the
classes I must take is only available at the Perkasie campus and only on Wednesday
nights. I have found this class very
enjoyable and it’s partly hands on, so I love that aspect of this particular
class. The instructor is really good at
what she does and when it comes to education she really seems to know her
stuff. I really feel that there is a lot
that I can learn from this person, but not tonight…
Just to make
this clearer and possibly more fun, even though when this took place I could
barely contain myself, I will put the situation in a play format.
Setting:
Classroom
Topic:
Putting things into perspective for young children such as the number 100 by
showing the children 100 items (pennies, lollipops, kick balls, etc.).
Random
student: Can you give another example
for this?
Instructor: Okay, take the Boston Marathon for instance;
I’m not sure how many miles it is but…
CT (Excited, but sort of annoyed that
this is the example being used when the distance is not known): 26.2 miles!
Instructor:
Oh, you have run the Boston Marathon!?
CT (Proudly):
Yes! I have run a total of 9
marathons.
Instructor:
That’s great! Back to the example, the
Boston Marathon is 26 miles.
CT: .2 miles
Instructor:
Excuse me?
CT: A
marathon is 26.2 miles.
Instructor:
I’m training for my first marathon, but I don’t think my marathon is that many
miles.
CT: Well, you’re not doing a marathon than.
Instructor: I
am doing a marathon it just isn’t that many miles.
CT: Well, if it’s a marathon you will be running
26.2 miles.
Instructor: Okay let’s get back to the example shall
we. If you wanted to put the distance of
a marathon
into perspective for your students, you would take them to a track
and after they run one lap you would tell them that they need to run at least
49 more laps to equal the distance of a marathon.
CT: They would have to run a total of 105 laps
roughly on a standard 400 meter track.
Instructor: Oh would you look at the time.
THE END!
As a runner
this can become tiresome to explain to non-runners. Without a doubt if the word gets out that I
ran a marathon over the weekend, there will be at least one person that will
come up to me and say something similar to “I heard you ran a marathon this
weekend; How far was this marathon?” And
don’t get me started on the people who think that I have done the Hawaii
Ironman because I have done a triathlon!
Till we run
into each other again…
