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 Charlie Knox26, m, resident of spa, northern ireland, a thinker, who tries to be real, enjoys the company of nala(left), indebted to jesus for his grace and instruction in life and whose, amongst other things, studying sports science at UUJ. enjoy rugby a whole lot! |
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Monday, March 23, 2009 Some links I confess that reading this made me jealous that I'd missed it. What an incredible day of rugby on Saturday. Part 1 being this and Part 2 being that which you already know about!! Your age in days. Today I'm 10139. posted by charlie | 6:56 PM | Thursday, March 12, 2009 Right Now I'm now on my second placement of my PGCE. For this shift I'm at Down High School (where Duke Special, Alistair McGrath, my sister, ash and my sister in law all did their schooling amongst others). As it's alumni would suggest it's a pleasant spot to work. So far most of the staff have been very welcoming and like Shimna the outdoor panoramics are very inspiring with the Cathedral in the foreground and the Mournes on the horizon. The work so far is challenging. There's lots of it, there lots of it that is new to me (Cricket & The Dalai Lama* to name a couple of topics), the kids are like sponges who seem to soak up everything i give them very quickly and to make matters worse, somewhere al0ng the line i've picked up some annoying perfectionist tendancies . Late nights in front of the PC are abounding and I'm feeling drained on lots of levels as the plethora of mouth ulcers keep reminding me (before the bongela puts them to bed!!). I keep telling myself that while this doesn't always FEEL that good its only for a season and that in the long run its good for me. Growth hurts sometimes and despite feeling wrecked I can see that i'm being stretched in good ways and would rather have that than not improve. Helping the soul slightly as I stare at the screen each evening are Iain archer, ray lamontagne and priscilla ahn. Mel and I went to see the latter two in the Waterfront in February. Both sing with a lot of heart. Ray's latest stuff is superb and is becoming anthemic of the past 6 months for us. Isn't it funny how music attaches itself to lifetimes? No other major goings on. I would so much love to be talking about some movies. The list of shows i'd like to see in the cinema is long right now but time hasn't been allowing too many visits. From reading reviews I get the feeling that the first 2 months of 2009 have given us more good movies than the whole of 2008 put together. Good times. I guess i'll just have to enjoy a few more summer DVD's. (like the wrestler, valkyrie and slumdog and doubt to name a few). Finally and while i'm here I'd also like to add my little bit to the tsunami of reaction to the shootings in our part of the world over the past few days. Like so many other people have expressed, my heart sank hearing about the deaths. It will be little consolation to the families of the dead men that their deaths seem to have brought more unity of voice than we've seen around here since a long time. right. i allowed myself 5 minutes for this post and it took a good bit more. * Two separate units - i have yet to find out what 'his holiness' makes of the game! posted by charlie | 11:14 PM | |
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