It has been a month since I’ve reflected; when the lockdown was beginning to bite into our fabric of normalcy and our group analysis for case studies was disrupted by most of the group moving from teaching in person to teaching online. A couple of the group just missed the discussions compleatly due to being overloaded by their other responsibilities in that time of tumultuous transition. This makes complete sense however things haven’t exactly got better since then. The number of cases has gone down but the disruption is ongoing and no one can hazard an informed guess on when society will open up again. Our study visit and professional placement now has digital options and I’ll be virtually visiting a university library, museum library, and university makerspace in the next couple of weeks. My placement could still physically happen later in semester 2 or with the special late exemptions universities are throwing around even a bit later in the year either at my work’s library or with the museum team, or through a university connection I made when I volunteered at CAUMAC earlier in the year.
I’ve just come through the first large assessment bump of the semester doing comparative evaluation of research papers and a concept map of leadership in the school context with my critical analysis of the same. I had always dreamed of having the chance to study without work being my primary time spent in the week and now it has come to pass. Unfortunately I haven’t had any more free time as free time requires spare energy and existing in a pandemic requires rather a lot of energy. I did request an extension to both assignments in order to hand them in at the end of the mid semester study break rather than the beginning so now with them out of the way it is straight back into readings and the other end of semester study bump in around 3-4 weeks.