Subjects and School life
My subjects are going really well. I ended up dropping the geography subject and enrolled in the sociology of the family. A great decision. The content is interesting in gaining a picture of the family in Asia and the Pacific compared to the family in Australia. It does have an exam though, which is worth 50% but I think I should be ok with it.
The religion and politics in contemporary society is my favorite subject thus far. It mainly is going to cover Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and more traditional religions that are in the Pacific; however most religions are touched on. I think it will raise more questions than answers as usual. Already read some good articles on protestant fundamentalism in the US. I actually did the first presentation in the class on this subject, which went really well. This week is about the Catholic church in South America and how they have adopted a liberation theology in going against the status quo; interesting.
The final subject is my internship with the Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA). They have finally agreed to take me onboard after some reluctance. I have spent many days there already but I think I officially start next week. However since this is Fiji where time does not exist and being absolute about anything doesn’t happen. I think I will just keep showing up the office and hassle them. I am under the impression that I will be first working with the peace program. The program aims to facilitate a process in fostering and creating a culture of peace, justice and reconciliation among the different races in Fiji. I am doing a 5 day workshop on peace in a couple of weeks. I’ll have more details as they arise.
Pretty much that is it in regards to school life. I have a fair amount of work for each subject, a lot more than I am used to but I guess thinking about it, it’s probably about the same since I am only doing 3 subjects instead of 4.
As it worked I only have classes on Thursday; pretty cool. I am going to try and work Monday-Wednesday doing my internship and have Friday off. Things are slowly coming together in regards to school; things take time in Fiji.
The religion and politics in contemporary society is my favorite subject thus far. It mainly is going to cover Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and more traditional religions that are in the Pacific; however most religions are touched on. I think it will raise more questions than answers as usual. Already read some good articles on protestant fundamentalism in the US. I actually did the first presentation in the class on this subject, which went really well. This week is about the Catholic church in South America and how they have adopted a liberation theology in going against the status quo; interesting.
The final subject is my internship with the Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy (ECREA). They have finally agreed to take me onboard after some reluctance. I have spent many days there already but I think I officially start next week. However since this is Fiji where time does not exist and being absolute about anything doesn’t happen. I think I will just keep showing up the office and hassle them. I am under the impression that I will be first working with the peace program. The program aims to facilitate a process in fostering and creating a culture of peace, justice and reconciliation among the different races in Fiji. I am doing a 5 day workshop on peace in a couple of weeks. I’ll have more details as they arise.
Pretty much that is it in regards to school life. I have a fair amount of work for each subject, a lot more than I am used to but I guess thinking about it, it’s probably about the same since I am only doing 3 subjects instead of 4.
As it worked I only have classes on Thursday; pretty cool. I am going to try and work Monday-Wednesday doing my internship and have Friday off. Things are slowly coming together in regards to school; things take time in Fiji.
posted by justinrigby at 2:18 pm
2 Comments:
Yeh, I have to agree with your mum on who knows where its taking you? Exciting stuff bro, the future holds some wonderful opportunities for you! "Fijian" Idol? Keep practicing. As for the exam hows about you associate certain parts of your tattoos with the memory of particular items within the subject topics so that if you go blank you can refer to your tatts and easily recall the required info. Kind of like writing answers on your skin, but not in the obvious cheating style, you had the tatts way before the exam, your just using them as promt reminders? Am I on drugs? Maybe I should be?
Hahaha, "excuse me sir I need to check my butt, I have a tattoo promt that needs checking!
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