Study continues..

Time flies when you are having fun or studying.  Here it is nearly at the end of May.  I've just a few things to do to complete my work for this semester, and with any luck, a break of a week before the next semester's material arrives and Semester 2 for 2011 will be well under way.

This last semester I have been doing two subjects - one is Script Adaptation - learning to write a movie/film script from a book.  My final assignment was a short piece I created out of a book called "Matron wants to see you nurse", which I bought back several years ago, that someone had written about Mt Gambier Hospital in South Australia.  There was even a photo of me in it, dancing in a sort of nursing outfit, and doing the can-can if I recall!

I managed to find some dialogue from the book and create a short piece.  The other subject was Writerly Self. I won't explain that here, but it is a rather academic type subject which is not my forte.  I don't delve into why or how things happen, so it was a bit challenging for me.

This coming semester I am doing a subject called "Reading and Writing" which reminds me of a subject by the same name that I 'taught' at Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages last year.  We had a bizarre text book with short pieces that students had to read, and then answer a few questions about.

My other subject is Scriptwriting.  I had rather shuddered at anything to do with script writing, but alas some of it is in the core subject list for Swinburne, so I had no choice.  I am certainly warming to doing more in that field.

Today I am going to a Festival of Ideas presentation at the State Library.  That could be interesting.  Then I will wander into the city, before getting home early in the afternoon.  Oh, I have a book to collect at the Brisbane City Library too.

I will take my Kindle - I am well into another book by Xinran about China.  She writes so clearly and honestly about life in China.  I may well finish the book today - plenty of bus and sitting time I think. 

This afternoon I shall finish my last assignments.  A glass of wine would be good to celebrate when done.