Day 11 The Mid-Point

Dear All,

It is unreal to think that this is the mid-point already!!!!

Today has been a bit special as we started work on our working group. It has been a very busy day.

My choice of working group is the 'Bubble chamber' and i have chosen to work on updating the lesson plans and creating worksheets for the lessons. It is proving slower than i thought as there are lots of different perspectives and angles to approach the problem from. It is easy to do what i want but the prespectives offered by my team mates is refreshing and highlight to me the difference in focus that their curriculum has.

In my opinion, i feel that they seem to teach Physics at a much more technical level, although this might be because most of their pupils tend to be from 17 - 19 years old. But the interesting point is that the Physics is the same regardless of the language we speak!

I went to the Microcosm shop today and bought lots of goodies.... for myself. I was going to go the whole hog and kit myself out in all the CERN merchandise that i could find...... but i think the t-shirt, sweater and playing cards are quite enough! I did also buy something else which i will present as a present to my best performing pupil.......maybe:-)

It's funny but it never occurred to me before i left that i might need to cut my fingernails. Consequently i have been walking around like Wolverine..... nice white long fingernails:-) Luckily Eduardo has given me a loan of his very expensive 'Victorix', (the Swiss people who make Swiss Army Knives) nail cutter so i am back to normal now!!!!!!

Tonight will be a long night as i am hoping to do as much of my Lesson Plans as possible. If things go to plan, it should makes things much easier next week. Especially as i want to attend some optional lectures on Astroparticle Physics.

As Bruce Lee once said to me ;-)), 'Be like a sponge! Absorb everything! And throw away what you don't need!'

It's true i tell you.........

Tommorrow will be lectures on Antimatter..... let's hope i learn the secret to Warp Drive technology and Antimatter bombs!!!!!