After all my musings and reflections about how I made it into a secure full time permanent position the pandemic ramifications have resulted in my role being made redundant.
This leaves me half way through my second to last semester of the Masters of Education (Teacher Librarianship) with 3 assignments remaining in ETL504, ETL507, and INF447 and 4 weeks to do them all. I found it difficult to continue with the readings and assignments in the immediate aftermath of being made redundant but kept up with all the online zoom videos for meetings and study visits.
Now is the final push to get everything in order for finishing the semester in the ways that meet my goals. In some ways having the virus hit during the semester when I was enrolled in the most units was the best time for it to happen as I don’t have 40 hours of work to distract me. I am also looking forward to my final semester when I will have the second half of ETL507 including the 10 day placement and my final elective which will be either INF520 or INF529.
Then I will have completed everything required for the course and will have to wait and see if an in person graduation is possible for my fourth lifetime tertiary qualification as I haven’t been able to attend any of the other actual graduation ceremonies.
Wearing robes in Wagga Wagga; that is the dream!