The Oriental Espresso

After my meeting at Asticou/Quebec today, I decided to come back home to continue working. Given the traffic between the provinces at this time of the day, it would have been pointless to head back to Slater then almost immediately come home.

So I'm consolidating stuff from home - with my first cup of Milo since I got here! Yes, I have some rations with me, which I'm determined to steward well. Inspired by the range* of coffees available here, I decided to do my own version of mocha - using Milo instead of chocolate powder. So what I have now is quite like the one from the machine in Tamarind :-) I recall a conversation I had with Val and Em about making kopi kau and teh tarik here as a charity fundraiser. I shall go and find condensed milk and consider doing this for my Armchair session end-Oct...

* Coffee here is quite amazing - today I discovered a shop that allows people to buy coffee from dispensing machines that look like the ones for soft drinks, in S/M/L sizes, starting from C$1.00 - and they have over 12 types of coffee on dispensers! But nothing beats teh-C bing if you ask me ;-)

I spent some part of lunch today cleaning up the office kitchen. It's a lovely space they have really - just that like any other communal space, no one bothers to clean up. The sink was filled with dishes, cups could be found in every corner, and general disarray blanketed the area. It took just 15 min of washing up the dishes, rearranging some cloths and adjusting the positions of the coffee machines and chairs to put the place in order. I'm tempted to make some nice paper ornaments with an autumn theme, get some fishing line and hang them up soon :-) Thanksgiving is just round the corner anyway...

I discovered something very exciting at Asticou today. I chanced upon a huge schema of Bloom's taxonomy with the 6 levels of learning, cascading to specific learning methods that could be used to deliver on those levels. It fanned out like a lotus (no pun intended), and didn't look like the textbook stuff that I'd seen before. I asked around a bit, and found out that someone in the School took Bloom's and adapted it for their use - so this lotus reveals a part of the School's thinking. I took my chances and asked if I could have a copy of this poster - after all, I had nothing to lose by asking. They said ok! and promptly reached into a corner filled with papers of all kinds and pulled one out for me. They even asked if I wanted the French version as well ;-)... I can't wait to bring the poster back to show everyone!!!