“Experience is something you can’t get for nothing.”
-Oscar Wilde
Browsing the archives for the adventures category.
Performed by students of Yoruba at Pasadena City College California. I saw this on Youtube and I loved it.
I’m now thinking of a similar activity as a class project.
We have just five more weeks of class work, and actually far less for actual work than just revisions.
It has been a long time since I took a long trip, and I’m beginning to get a little complacent.
I miss the thrill of the open road, food, breeze, adrenaline and plenty fun adventures in good company.
It will be a shame to have lived in Illinois for one year without having visited sights in Chicago.
There is no law against some occasional weekend retreat away from the insularity of a small town.
All work and no play makes KT a boring academic, a feisty blogger and a lame traveller.
…and that’s why Chicago is on my mind.
It is famous for Al-Capone and the drug gangs of the prohibition era of the 1920s.
It is the largest city in Illinois, and the third most densely populated city in the United States
It is the home of America’s tallest building, The Sears Towers, and Grant Park.
And talk show host Oprah Winfrey. And US President Barack Obama. And Nigerian writer Nnedi Okorafor.
It almost won the rights to host the 2010 Olympics.
It’s just five hours by bus from St. Louis, which itself is like forty minutes drive from Edwardsville.
…and that’s why Chicago is on my mind.
….
It’s time to get lost in lights… as soon as possible.
Monday 2nd November:
- In Class Movie Thunderbolt… (concluded)
- More Yoruba grammar lessons
- Learn a Yoruba christmas song
Tuesday 3rd November:
- Rudy Wilson’s story telling class. Alumni Hall.
Wednesday 4th November:
- In Class role play exercises. Attempt a Yoruba drama session
- Fine-tune the class choir/song rehearsals
- Think of new interesting ideas.
Thursday 5th November:
- Attempt to visit the St. Louis Arch
- Shop.
Friday 6th November:
- Read, write, read, review.
- Play.
Saturday 7th November
- International Night 2009. Merridian Ballroom. SIUE.
Quote for the week:
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker
(Picture Credits: A busy fisherman, shot yesterday evening at the Cougar Lake just behind the basketball court around my apartment.)
Monday, October 26th 2009:
- In-class movie Thunderbolt by Mainframe, featuring Uche Obi-Osotule, Larinde Akinleye, Akinwumi Isola, Buki Ajayi and Lanre Balogun.
Tuesday, October 27th 2009:
- Classworks, projects, assignments, a few other boring stuff.
Wednesday, October 28th 2009:
- In-class movie Thunderbolt, cont’d.
- A little fun after linguistics class, maybe on the bowling alley.
Thursday, October 29th 2009:
- Same as Tuesday
- Plus perhaps an attempt to make a perfect costume.
- And maybe some basketball if the weather permits it.
- Catch up on the many abandoned editing, writing and reading assignments.
Friday, October 30th: Open
Saturday, October 31st: Halloween
Quote for the week:
“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.” – Robert Benchley