First Day Of School

[CatherineM]

My classes are going to be 90% seminarians. I don't think any of them are over 25 years old. One was carrying around the entire Edith Stein collected works. It's going to be like going to school with Phatmassers. Night classes are harried, overworked, Catholic school teachers working on their masters degrees. Day classes are completely different. I could hold my own with tired teachers, but with these young, eager, energetic, Catholic nerds, I'm going to get my butt kicked. I was certainly the only one in class with an orthopedic seat cushion and bifocals.

The liturgy to start the term was great. The new dean presided, and he sang the whole thing.

[missionseeker]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1645838' date='Sep 2 2008, 08:50 PM']My classes are going to be 90% seminarians. I don't think any of them are over 25 years old. One was carrying around the entire Edith Stein collected works. It's going to be like going to school with Phatmassers. Night classes are harried, overworked, Catholic school teachers working on their masters degrees. Day classes are completely different. I could hold my own with tired teachers, but with these young, eager, energetic, Catholic nerds, I'm going to get my butt kicked. I was certainly the only one in class with an orthopedic seat cushion and bifocals.

The liturgy to start the term was great. The new dean presided, and he sang the whole thing.[/quote]


you never know about the bifocals.

I wear them. Have since I was 18. Am 20. (not long, but still... bifocals)

Somedays, I wear contacts and use the +1.50 strength reading glasses.

[CatherineM]

Some of these kids didn't look old enough to shave. I swear, the older I get, the younger everyone else seems.

[littlesister]

Golly, Catherine, ain't that the truth!?

[HisChildForever]

I start classes tomorrow. I mean...today.

[Balthazor]

Don't worry CatherineM you will make it through!
What others have to make up for in enthusiasm you make up for with experience.

[CatherineM]

Oh, I'm very enthusiastic, but my body's odometer has rolled over a few times, and I'm still dragging my back pockets. I can't schedule classes back to back, and it's a 90 ride on the bus just getting there. The school is moving to a new building next year (province is putting a highway right through the chapel), and they have known this was coming for awhile, so they haven't invested in any new fixtures, so the desk are hand-me-downs from I don't know where, but are so short that only half the class can actually fit their legs under them. It feels a bit like PTA night when you have to sit in the third graders' desks. The quality of the education is worth the discomfort.

[Nihil Obstat]

Where is this school? It sounds like fun.

[Autumn Dusk]

i don't need bifocals because I'm so nearsighted that I can't be farsighted....literally. to read a piece of paper without my glasses I have to hold it up to my eye

[Nihil Obstat]

Would now be a bad time to brag about my perfect eyesight?

[Autumn Dusk]

i don't mind being nearsighted...it makes me unique

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Autumn Dusk' post='1649340' date='Sep 6 2008, 05:33 PM']i don't mind being nearsighted...it makes me unique[/quote]
Know what makes me unique? Being the only person in my close family that I can name who doesn't wear glasses. Except for one that had laser eye surgery, but he doesn't count.

[Brother Adam]

You're pooped. I'm hosting 5 catechist formation classes and teaching two this weekend, our grand opening for REP is tomorrow morning, and we're holding a registration drive. Guess how many staff are working this weekend. Yep. Me. I admit though I feel like Timothy teaching Paul. Most people are 40's-50's and I'm in my 20's teaching them about catechetics.

Oh, and I gave [b]Phatmass[/b] a plug in my class on lesson planning. I told them to use it as background music as teens are coming into the class.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1649314' date='Sep 6 2008, 04:27 PM']Where is this school? It sounds like fun. [/quote]

Newman Theological College and St. Joseph's Seminary in Edmonton, sort of. It's actually in a suburb on the west side of town called St. Albert. It's moving to new digs next to the Pastoral Centre on the South side of town in two years. The Seminary residences will be done by next fall, and the college itself the year after. Next year we're going to move temporarily into a Community College in a suburb on the East side of town. We can actually watch the bulldozers come closer outside the classroom windows. They're going to remove the stained glass windows from the chapel in November to move them to the new chapel.

In my Pastoral Theology class, there are seminarians from Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Victoria, and Edmonton. They mostly argue over football. I feel like a frat house mom.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1649358' date='Sep 6 2008, 05:59 PM']Newman Theological College and St. Joseph's Seminary in Edmonton, sort of. It's actually in a suburb on the west side of town called St. Albert. It's moving to new digs next to the Pastoral Centre on the South side of town in two years. The Seminary residences will be done by next fall, and the college itself the year after. Next year we're going to move temporarily into a Community College in a suburb on the East side of town. We can actually watch the bulldozers come closer outside the classroom windows. They're going to remove the stained glass windows from the chapel in November to move them to the new chapel.

In my Pastoral Theology class, there are seminarians from Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Victoria, and Edmonton. They mostly argue over football. I feel like a frat house mom.[/quote]
Hehe, we live closer than you realize.
Not close as in within Edmonton, but close.
I made a goal just recently. Someday when I have my midlife crisis (yea, someday. As if I'll ever be OLD like some people. ) I will go get a theology degree.
Maybe you can teach me.
If you aren't retired.

Hehehe, I'm sorry though. Eventually I'll stop making old people jokes.