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Date: 14 July 2005 11:55:05
Have spent the last 36 or so hours rediscovering the joys of logs (the mathematical type, and those that you sit on while watching other people play volleyball), trigonometry, geometry and trinomials. I never thought I'd have to do algebraic long division again when I finished high school. But somehow, six years later, it all came flooding back to me. Or sort of trickling...
I must say it was interesting dealing with a student who had trouble with basic algebra (multiplying x/4 by 4 to find x) to then moving straight on to some integration of trigonometric functions or natural log based trinomial equations. Ah well there was only one question I couldn't answer and that was in the last 2 minutes of the last study session today. It was about the volume of the er thing formed when you rotate a certain ellipse around the x axis. But I know how to do it now :D
And only five people at the camp asked me what school I was at! Three of them were fellow leaders, the others year 12 students. Funnily enough I am actually more than 4 years older than the leaders that assumed I was a student. One of the conversations went like this when I arrived back at camp yesterday:
Leader: Hi! Do you need a hand with anything?
yay: nah, I'm just putting my stuff in my room
L: oh have you been off sick?
y: no, I have been at work
L (smarmy Christian "I am so interested in your life voice"): Oh what sort of work?
y: I'm a pharmacist
L: do you mean a pharmacy assistant?
y: no, I'm a pharmacist
L: but don't you have to go to uni to be a pharmacist?
y: yes. For four years. Then you complete a postgraduate year and pass your professional qualification exams.
L: oh.... you're a leader!
y: yes.
Too tired to faff around with memory cards and stuff to put up WISE picture. Maybe tomorrow. Or the next day. Which, incidentally, is my birthday.