Starting school, and Scripting a Comic

[Nya Halcyon]

Okay, so I figured I'd let everyone know that I'll possibly not be around much to post from this weekend onwards.

For one, I'm starting teacher training on Sunday (don't ask why it starts on Sunday - they are weird like that) and will be out of the house from 6am to 6pm, if not later, from monday to friday, and probably will have special seminars on some weekends, too (along with having to help with gardening and other "activities", every now and then). I don't think the school even owns a PC other than the ones in the offices, so there won't be any chance to sneak online in the library. Ah well... it should be interesting.

Secondly, I've just been offered a chance to write/script a comic. The guy I got this character's pictures from had long been developing a whole roleplaying universe with a bunch of friends, before they all moved to different places and he was left with one of them who was good at ideas but not any good at writing. Over the years the two of them have put together an impressive archive of info and characters, and he has been creating some artwork to illustrate some of it.
Well, he got involved in doing the artwork for a bunch of SW webcomics, and it gave him the idea to make a series of comics of his universe, too. So he asked me to help him out by writing the stories for the comics based on what they'd developed in the past. So now I'll be scripting comics!

Anyway, I have no idea how much work this will entail, as well as the training course, so I might only check in every couple of days and make an occasional post. However, if there's anything I need to post to, to keep an RP going, please don't hesitate to PM me or email me (or send me an IM if you see me online) and I will do so; I do need to get on with my own storylines, too, after all.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Good luck!!! The comic thing sounds super exciting!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Sounds like some good times :) Keep us posted on the comic!

[Callista]

Good for you! That all sounds awesome! I wish you luck in the schooling AND the comic! Can't wait to hear more about the comic :D

[Nya Halcyon]

I've just come back from my introductory seminar.... all I can say is.... YIKES!

Not only do I have to go to drawing classes, but there's also sculpting, playing the harp, eurythmics, speech formation, along with a whole bunch of regular classes... it's going to be fun!

[Dasquian Belargic]

It does sound like fun! :D

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Playing the harp???

[Fionn Halcyon]

Yeah... usually kids start playing this kind of harp (http://cgi.ebay.de/Kinderharfe-pentatonisch-Harfe-Leier-Waldorf-Septinchen_W0QQitemZ170258651541QQcmdZViewItem?has h=item170258651541&_trkparms=72%3A823%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C2 40%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14) starting in the first grade (as well as a kind of recorder that sounds a lot like an Irish tin whistle). I am guessing that that is what we get to play, too, just so we can add it to lessons. The English teacher I witnessed once was playing a simple song in the background while her class was putting on a play in the school's theatre.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Music playing just doesn't seem to have much bearing on learning how to be an English teacher, or whatever it is you're going in for. :p

[Callista]

Wow! That sounds fun!

Although, I second Lil's comment...are they just trying to get teachers well rounded? Or are you teaching the younger grades where you have to know Math, Science, English, History, etc.?

You should sculpt some SW characters :)

[Fionn Halcyon]

Well, as I found out today the class I'm taking used to be the class they had for Waldorf class teachers, before they opened up their academy to younger students who needed some more basic training. So even though I'm studying to become an English teacher, I'm actually also going to be trained to take on 1st years through to 8th grade in any subject other than sports and religious education. I'm just not going to be able to teach as anything other than an English teacher UNLESS the school decides to ignore the fact that I don't have an official diploma for it.

It sounds totally idiotic. If I'd gone to University and done some teacher training provided by the State, I'd be able to teach as form teacher. If I'd spent two years teaching without having gone through teacher training before, based on whatever else I did in my life, I'd be able to teach as form teacher. But since I have done neither, I can only be English teacher and hope that the school I end up teaching at has a shortage of form teachers and they decide they'll let me teach as one.

EDIT: But aside from that, they really do like their teachers to be well rounded and be able to combine anything in their teaching. Teaching English means I might be teaching them (the classes I'm taking for that in brackets): how to sing and play English songs (singing and playing harp), recite poems (speech formation), teach them the names of flowers, animals, (animal world and botany) etc... but in later classes I might have to put on a play with them for which I'd have to draw up a stage design (painting & sculpting), create costumes with them (needlework and sewing), etc....

Waldorf schools are a bit unlike others in that they combine traditional subjects with a lot of crafts and such. Usually the schools have huge amounts of workshops - the one Nya is going to has a smithy, a wood workshop, a place for working with all kinds of metals, a sewing room, a sculpting room, a pottery, a painting studio, etc... as well as their own theatre. Usually they put on a play at the end of the 8th grade and they do everything themselves. So a teacher there kind of needs to have a well-rounded education to be able to cope with that, because usually all subjects are somewhat combined.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

I'm late on wishing you congratulations but congratulations. The comic sounds really, really fun.

[Fionn Halcyon]

The comic is progressing slowly. I've been reading up on background info of what's already been put together, and coming up with a couple of ideas ... but it's all new territory to visualise this in a way that would work for a comic.