Take a free open university course this summer

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The reason is that while I didn’t take a course via the Internet this summer, I did learn alot in the “free open university course” of travel and experience. I had the opportunity to go to India and, while there, to visit with an educational nonprofit called Down to Earth. This org runs an after-school school for kids who live in the slums of Mumbai… In my two visits to their school, I learned more than I would have in a whole semester of an online class…

In the foto is one of the kids sitting in the class, holding up a little arts and crafts project we did. Behind him you can see the corrugated metal wall of his classroom.

For a number of reasons, I decided not to take any library school classes this summer.
1. Work is quite busy, due to Summer Reading being a huge initiative in New York City, and due to me being what they call a YA (young adult) Librarian. Meaning not that i myself am young, (although if you want to think of me as young, please feel free, be my guest), but rather that I technically work with young adults.

2. School in summer is collapsed into six weeks of twice a week per class, with the best classes being for some mysterious reason in the middle of the day, making it difficult for those of us who commute two hours one way.

3. I would just like a break from things that are Due. Know what I mean? On one hand, I am the type that typically only gets things done when they are Due (witness my Happiness pathfinder, witness my passport application, witness all my assignments in high school, college, and beyond)... BUT. I think it would be good for me to work differently, even if just for a summer.

SO…... my next entry on this topic will lay out some of the courses I am tempted to sample… Hoping that I may gain some compadres in my summer un-studies!