Yes, as much as I bitch about my job sometimes. I can’t ignore the
fact that my company has very kindly paid for me to be sitting in Florida for
three days in December. It’s pretty awesome, for all kinds of reasons. One, its
Florida, in December! Two, the conference is actually interesting and useful.
Three, It’s Florida! In December! …… you get the idea
It felt really weird being in the conference session amongst about
25 fellow educators* and I couldn’t figure it out for a while. Then I realised
what it was. I knew what the guy was talking about. I wasn’t out of my depth,
winging it or BS-ing my way through the stuff. There was no pressure. If I don’t
learn anything new, I don’t fail anything. There’s no test at the end. It was
just great to be around colleagues as equals.
One minor funny thing. At the inevitable “getting to know you” bit
at the very start, we had to fill in a “reflection questionnaire”**, which had
(surprise surprise!) various questions about your strengths, weaknesses,
achievements etc. The first question was “what is your greatest accomplishment in
life?”
Well that was easy to answer!
* You could tell the locals, they were wearing sweaters and
complaining about the chill in the air. While us Canadians were hitting the
beach!
No comments:
Post a Comment