expertise

okay so yesterday i was advised by the australian person who is the 'expert' on what our malaysian guests need/want from the courses we are writing that i should take out all that controversial stuff about sociology and culture and difference and just focus on learning theory

so figuring that i should bow to someone else's superior wisdom i took most of it out and rebadged it as innofensive things like cultural diversity

and in my meeting today with the malaysian team, about the only gap they saw in the materials was "where is the sociology"...

quite a hard question to answer really.

seeing stars...

every so often i get one of those peculiar headaches which messes up my vision and makes everything kinda starry looking and blurry; i am told it is a type of migraine and the good part is that it doesn't actually come with a big ache kind of thing, just a vague sense of disorientation. so it is a bit weird,, and yet at this precise moment i am almost relieved to have one of these thingys because it gives me an excuse to stop sitting at my computer screen and thinking about the cultural applicability of various strands of ed studies and sociology to settings in malaysia.

on another note: i amm wondering why i bothered to actually get a doctors' certificate saying i needed 5 dayys off work. it's kind of like, just having the certificate is supposed to be a proxy for acctualy taking time off....

anyway: this is a round about way of saying that i am tired and cranky but still very grateful that i get to write FOR malaysia but don't have to go TO malaysia

(ps: some one asked me if i was going to malaysia soon; i said no caues i had small children and it was too difficult. they said "yes it is hard, but if you only go for two weeks it wouldn't bother them". everyone's an expert.