#28
Yesterday's Nice Thing: Cleaning the house and doing the laundry. That is what true virtue feels like.
So I hoovered the house - the second time in two weeks, which is a lot. I am really REALLY trying. I also caught up with laundry and did the weekly shop. It came to £50. but I did forget the oat milk. Doing the weekly shop has saved us at least £40 a week. Very useful at this time of the year.
I also did loads of reading and class prep yesterday. The Renaissance. You think you know it, until you start trying to grasp it. Then it becomes this massive monster. I think it is really impossible to know the Renaissance. History is literally an impossible project. After the Renaissance, well these three weeks of it, we go back into science and chemistry. It has been just a roller coaster ride the past year in terms of subjects.
Today's blog is gonna have to be short cos I did not wake up at 4 am to finally write down the class lesson. It is impossible. What do i start with first?
The history of the Italian peninsula? The Medicis? The rivalry between Sienna and Florence? Yes, possibly all of it. The life of Brunelleschi... I have it, it must be the life of Lorenzo de Medici. It would seem that he single-handedly, more or less, with the help of one or two Popes, created the Renaissance. Or jump started it, of course.
I mean it is ludicrously inspiring. You can't help being utterly mesmerised by it. And it is also why my favourite place in the world is Italy - because OF the Renaissance... and Ancient Rome.
I love it that we did Ancient Rome so thoroughly - it all builds up to the Renaissance. That we have the luxury of time to make sense of all of this to the students is just amazing.
Well, that's me for today. Yesterday was very bright, but very cold. I dunno if I can go running.... but I know this. After three weeks of doing this routine:
1. I MUST do all my class prep in the evening, or I will have no time to go running in the morning.
2. I cannot bring myself to run in after school. I am too tired. It is simply the wrong way round.
Right. To completing the class prep now. The Renaissance.
So I hoovered the house - the second time in two weeks, which is a lot. I am really REALLY trying. I also caught up with laundry and did the weekly shop. It came to £50. but I did forget the oat milk. Doing the weekly shop has saved us at least £40 a week. Very useful at this time of the year.
I also did loads of reading and class prep yesterday. The Renaissance. You think you know it, until you start trying to grasp it. Then it becomes this massive monster. I think it is really impossible to know the Renaissance. History is literally an impossible project. After the Renaissance, well these three weeks of it, we go back into science and chemistry. It has been just a roller coaster ride the past year in terms of subjects.
Today's blog is gonna have to be short cos I did not wake up at 4 am to finally write down the class lesson. It is impossible. What do i start with first?
The history of the Italian peninsula? The Medicis? The rivalry between Sienna and Florence? Yes, possibly all of it. The life of Brunelleschi... I have it, it must be the life of Lorenzo de Medici. It would seem that he single-handedly, more or less, with the help of one or two Popes, created the Renaissance. Or jump started it, of course.
I mean it is ludicrously inspiring. You can't help being utterly mesmerised by it. And it is also why my favourite place in the world is Italy - because OF the Renaissance... and Ancient Rome.
I love it that we did Ancient Rome so thoroughly - it all builds up to the Renaissance. That we have the luxury of time to make sense of all of this to the students is just amazing.
Well, that's me for today. Yesterday was very bright, but very cold. I dunno if I can go running.... but I know this. After three weeks of doing this routine:
1. I MUST do all my class prep in the evening, or I will have no time to go running in the morning.
2. I cannot bring myself to run in after school. I am too tired. It is simply the wrong way round.
Right. To completing the class prep now. The Renaissance.
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