HODGEPODGE SEPTEMBRE 3

1. What's something you wanted to do this summer that you never got around to doing? 

Don't laugh, but after having traveled around Europe and the States until St. Petersburg in Russia, I only had a rather modest wish for this summer, to see the renovated Zoo in Antwerp (Belgium). But so far, my pump or COPD ...threw a wrench in my plans; the rollercoaster weather we had this summer was anything but good for me,  I felt like I was at the North Pole one day and in the desert the next. I had hoped to take the train to Antwerp one day to see the new zoo, but it never worked out. Maybe there will still be a few nice days at least as far as my health is concerned this autumn. It would be so easy as the train station in Antwerp is just besides the zoo.

 I love elephants !

2. Were you the student who sat in the front row or hid in the back of the class? If you could go back and take one high school class again just for fun, which would it be? 

I hated school, in primary school just after war, we were 80 pupils in one room with a dragon as a teacher, sitting on wooden old school benches which they had recuperated from the ruins The benches were meant for two students, but three of us sat there because there weren't enough. The school was hastily cobbled together out of metal; it was hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter.

 

Those were my first years of school. We had to sit where we were told, I was in the back because I was tall. Anyway front or back I didn't care, I protested anyway for everything and was the enemy of this old wreck who spit when she talked. I defended all these little sheep who were so afraid of her. 

 

In Brussels high school until the end, it was nice and I had a lot of fun, but I don't want to go back in no school ! 

3. What characteristics do you think are essential in a good teacher (this can be applied to anyone who teaches, not just classroom teachers)? 

 

I really don't know, in my childhood teachers were a catastrophe, but all teachers my son had were nice, I became even friend with one.  

4.  September 2nd is National Grits Day. Have you ever eaten grits? Are you a fan? If so how do you like yours? Would people describe you as 'having grit'? 

 

I had never heard about Grits and had to google. I even learned a recipe and also that it can be compared to Polenta. Polenta I know very well and I made it from time to time. But I still don't know what grit is ?  Wheat ?? Polenta is corn. In one dictionary I found "the structure of a stone that adapts it to grinding " Difficult to think that this is made out of a stone !

 

 

 

5. What's something you're never too old or too young to enjoy? 

 

Landscapes and skies 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Maybe you have noticed that I was absent for 3 weeks ! The reason was rather stupid. I lost the link to my dashboard, so I couldn't write a post. That was really awful. During all this time I tried to get into Blogger. I always ended up in my "reading" list and an empty Blog with a header I never made. I had to change my Google account so I was told, because they had made an update ! Updating means to make things easier. I found it rather more difficult. They had invented a lot of security things which in my case were completely useless, what should a hacker do with my information about "Grit" for example. It came to a point that when I got up I sneaked around my computer like a cat around a bowl of food. It kept getting worse; suddenly, I was receiving links to all sorts of companies. Eventually, I gave up and took a break, and every time I walked past my computer, I stuck my tongue out at it.

I only used it for making my photos new with the help of AI. 

I made this picture only with instructions ....

But yesterday evening, I thought I will try again and raked my brain who could help me. Here around nobody. So I tried to go to the Dashboard of my old Blog and .... oh miracle it worked ! From there I could go easily to this Blog. Was I happy ! I immediately felt better. I never had thought that blogging is such a big part of me ! 

PS. If there is anything which doesn't work or seems strange please let me know