Remember this?
Well ... it had taken some time, some inspiration, some work, and did I mention time?
As of this moment, the virtual me got a new name and a new face (well, it is blue again, but still :P)
Bee happy and see you online!
December 13, 2011
tamoeta.eu
Well ... it had taken some time, some inspiration, some work, and did I mention time?
As of this moment, the virtual me got a new name and a new face (well, it is blue again, but still :P)
Bee happy and see you online!
October 15, 2011
4.Y.i.K.
It's been a while since I wrote the last time… actually more than one year and it's been a busy, busy year. This note today is an anniversary note for celebrating four years in Kassel. The fact that I did not manage to write it on the anniversary day of October 1st shows how awesome that day and weekend has been :)
When I started thinking about what I want to write, I realized I did not have a story to tell or an experience to share … it's more of reflection and insight. I thought about how many things I've learned since I am here and how much I have changed (in thinking, in attitude, in aims and aspirations) and also how many parts of the old me I have lost. One of the recent achievements would be the degree I earned last winter (one that I can put next to my name, but not yet in my ID :P), in addition to all knowledge and skills I acquired in the area I specialized for, all the people around the world I am connected to and the beautiful lifelong friendships we built. In the same time I feel like losing more and more of my connections back home, to the people I dreamed of changing the world with, to the places I once thought would be my home and to the aims and aspirations I came to Kassel with four years ago.
Here I found people I can work with but not yet found the environment that gives me the necessary inspiration and motivation to really succeed in what I am good at. I learned that my current main job is not my dream job, but that I find from time to time jobs I dreamed of doing. I learned that internationalization and international mobility might be good for the system but I don't like to have people leaving all the time. I learned that sometimes we can't change everything around us, and then we need to change something inside us.
I did not learn though how to work in a factory, how to obey, how to take a destructive feedback and how to lower my expectations (on me and on the others).
And I also learned that you need to be very careful what you wish for, because it becomes reality!
I see you!
When I started thinking about what I want to write, I realized I did not have a story to tell or an experience to share … it's more of reflection and insight. I thought about how many things I've learned since I am here and how much I have changed (in thinking, in attitude, in aims and aspirations) and also how many parts of the old me I have lost. One of the recent achievements would be the degree I earned last winter (one that I can put next to my name, but not yet in my ID :P), in addition to all knowledge and skills I acquired in the area I specialized for, all the people around the world I am connected to and the beautiful lifelong friendships we built. In the same time I feel like losing more and more of my connections back home, to the people I dreamed of changing the world with, to the places I once thought would be my home and to the aims and aspirations I came to Kassel with four years ago.
Here I found people I can work with but not yet found the environment that gives me the necessary inspiration and motivation to really succeed in what I am good at. I learned that my current main job is not my dream job, but that I find from time to time jobs I dreamed of doing. I learned that internationalization and international mobility might be good for the system but I don't like to have people leaving all the time. I learned that sometimes we can't change everything around us, and then we need to change something inside us.
I did not learn though how to work in a factory, how to obey, how to take a destructive feedback and how to lower my expectations (on me and on the others).
And I also learned that you need to be very careful what you wish for, because it becomes reality!
I see you!
September 16, 2010
Cand voi fi mare...
Ce este un turist? Si ce este un egoist? Si care este diferenta dintre ele?
Ce inseamna recycling?
De ce cu cat ma apropii mai mult de statuia lui Herkules, acesta creste in doar cateva minute?
Ce este un campus? Ce inseamna "uni"? Daca nu esti student, poti locui intr-un camin studentesc?
Cand voi fi mare, o sa fiu si eu student, dupa care voi fi pilot!
Cam asta s-a petrecut intrunul dintre weekendurile mele trecute si pe cuvantul meu ca a fost una dintre cele mai frumoase experiente din ultimul timp.
Verisorii mei, Lara (11) si René (8) din Nürnberg, m-au vizitat cu ceva timp in urma. A fost tare frumos sa petrec doua zile cu acesti doi copii minunati intr-o perioada in care dedicasem majoritatea timpului meu scrisului si muncilor casnice. Pe cat am fost de consumata de energie, pe atat ma incarcau cu energie extraordinarele discutii care le purtam.
Totul incepuse cu intrebarea "Tu ce lucrezi?", venita din partea finutzului meu de 8 ani. Stau eu putin pe ganduri si incerc sa-i explic cum explorez eu ce se intampla in universitati... (adaug) in scoli, ca sa aflu tarziu ca universitatea era inca un concept strain pentru el. La cat de neputincioasa ma simteam eu sa explic cercetare in invatamant superior, ma intreaba René indata: Dar tu esti administrator? (vezi "Hausmeister")... da! Nu stiu de ce incepusem cu stangul.
Imi amintesc acum cum i-am explicat unei fetite de 2 ani si jumatate (e Hilda, care e atat de mare cat masterul meu) care venise cu mama ei la un workshop, ca noi doua ne jucam impreuna timp de 2 ore pentru ca mama ei are o prezentare ("Vortrag"), si ca noi nu o putem vedea de la locul unde ne jucam pentru ca perdele sunt inchise in sala de prezentare, ca altfel nu se vede proiectia de la videoproiector, ca ar fi prea mult lumina in sala. Hilda se uita lung la mine si spune -ok!
Dar venind inapoi la weekendul cu Lara si René! A fost si mai frumos parca, sa pregatesc clatite pentru micul dejun si orez cu lapte pentru cina, sa mergem la film 3D, sa mergem o zi intreaga la muzee si seara sa mai vrem, sa-l vizitam pe Herkules, sa facem multe poze, sa ne jucam multe joculete inteligente si sa invatatm despre cum sa ne jucam mai eficient.
Eu am invatat multe despre copii si despre mine si s-au confirmat din nou ipotezele lui Sugata Mitra:
De ce cu cat ma apropii mai mult de statuia lui Herkules, acesta creste in doar cateva minute?
Ce este un campus? Ce inseamna "uni"? Daca nu esti student, poti locui intr-un camin studentesc?
Cand voi fi mare, o sa fiu si eu student, dupa care voi fi pilot!
Cam asta s-a petrecut intrunul dintre weekendurile mele trecute si pe cuvantul meu ca a fost una dintre cele mai frumoase experiente din ultimul timp.
Verisorii mei, Lara (11) si René (8) din Nürnberg, m-au vizitat cu ceva timp in urma. A fost tare frumos sa petrec doua zile cu acesti doi copii minunati intr-o perioada in care dedicasem majoritatea timpului meu scrisului si muncilor casnice. Pe cat am fost de consumata de energie, pe atat ma incarcau cu energie extraordinarele discutii care le purtam.
Totul incepuse cu intrebarea "Tu ce lucrezi?", venita din partea finutzului meu de 8 ani. Stau eu putin pe ganduri si incerc sa-i explic cum explorez eu ce se intampla in universitati... (adaug) in scoli, ca sa aflu tarziu ca universitatea era inca un concept strain pentru el. La cat de neputincioasa ma simteam eu sa explic cercetare in invatamant superior, ma intreaba René indata: Dar tu esti administrator? (vezi "Hausmeister")... da! Nu stiu de ce incepusem cu stangul.
Imi amintesc acum cum i-am explicat unei fetite de 2 ani si jumatate (e Hilda, care e atat de mare cat masterul meu) care venise cu mama ei la un workshop, ca noi doua ne jucam impreuna timp de 2 ore pentru ca mama ei are o prezentare ("Vortrag"), si ca noi nu o putem vedea de la locul unde ne jucam pentru ca perdele sunt inchise in sala de prezentare, ca altfel nu se vede proiectia de la videoproiector, ca ar fi prea mult lumina in sala. Hilda se uita lung la mine si spune -ok!
Dar venind inapoi la weekendul cu Lara si René! A fost si mai frumos parca, sa pregatesc clatite pentru micul dejun si orez cu lapte pentru cina, sa mergem la film 3D, sa mergem o zi intreaga la muzee si seara sa mai vrem, sa-l vizitam pe Herkules, sa facem multe poze, sa ne jucam multe joculete inteligente si sa invatatm despre cum sa ne jucam mai eficient.
Eu am invatat multe despre copii si despre mine si s-au confirmat din nou ipotezele lui Sugata Mitra:
- If children have interest, then education happens.
- Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do!
Pe tema asta recomand cu drag urmatorul TED talk:
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
Poze: on Tamoets's Flickr Album
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)