The Story of Wings and Wheels of the Mind!!!

 

Let’s Roam Around!

DAY 1 OF ONLINE PRACTICE TEACHING

“Travelling- It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

-Ibn Battuta

Who doesn't like to travel? Travelling is a luxury we can't seem to afford in this lockdown. But when our minds have wings and wheels of their own what is stopping us from exploring, from discovering ourselves and the world around? I think the exposure to new places and new people can be really reviving personally and also eye-opening to see how other people live. To see how life functions, whether human or natural life, in other places is really humbling. It's easy to have your status quo at home, but as soon as you're in a new place - all bets are off. You can do anything, and are so willing to try new stuff to push your own boundaries purely because you're in a new place.

 

That was what my friend Anija U tried to convey through her class taken on 28.09.2020. . It gave us an opportunity to explore the world, to travel with the wings of mind. Her class was on A Shipwrecked Sailor (Standard VIII) by  Gabriel García Márquez. When I heard the word shipwreck what naturally comes to my mind is that the image of Titanic. 

 

While she was narrating the story of the protagonist my mind immediately made a connection to the movie The Life of the Pie. The story felt intriguing and it prompted me to read the story that day itself. The story goes like this: Seaman Luis Alejandro Velasco of the destroyer Caldas is eager to return to Colombia after a long stay in The United States. When the ship sets sail, however, it is overloaded — in part with contraband. When the vessel is caught in heavy waves in the Caribbean, eight of the crew are washed overboard, together with much of the cargo. After four days the search ends, with the missing declared dead. However, Velasco found a raft and remained on the open sea without food and without hope. After drifting with sea currents for ten days, he arrives with his raft on a coast that he later discovers to be Colombia. He is received first with affection and later with military honours and much money from publicity agencies

Highlights of the class:

Anija explored the different tools available in the WPS application while taking her class.

Ø  a. pointer

Ø  b. whiteboard

Each day has something positive stored for us. We just need to find that out. For me, that day was about the beautiful story I read.😊😊😊