Week 48 - February 25th, 2024
'YOUTH' - Troye Sivan
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I don’t know about anyone else, but letting my friends cut my hair was always a special kind of therapy. The absolute trust but also tomfoolery of cutting and changing your hair together, such a ritual of growth. And no one can quite love and criticize your hair like your closest friends.
Enjoy!
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Week 48 Prompts:
“Breathe, I’m right here.”
“I’m already broken. I have nothing else to lose.”
“Does this/that mean what I think it means?”
What Could Have Been Chapter 9: Beginnings and Endings - @liaromancewriter (Open Heart; Ethan Ramsey x F!MC)
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Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum
y’all wish you had ornamented rhinophores like me. get on my level
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Week 48 - Entrepreneurship reflection - Silke
Since january 14th 2022 I am an official business owner of my own graphic design business 'Silke Koolbergen'. https://silkekoolbergen.nl/
Within my studies back in The Netherlands, communication and multimedia design, we get entrepreneurship classes and many classes where teachers talk about how before they went into teaching had their own creative business.
My mother also owns her own business in coaching primary school teachers in how to deal with 'dynamic' (difficult) groups and so the entrepreneurship-gene was passed on. She taught me a lot, and I observed a lot.
Entrepreneurship for me is not only being good at something and selling your ideas, but the finances, planning and motivation around it all is of utter importance to me.
People forget that they need to plan ahead, you can't just think 'I want to start a business' and pay some money to make it official. You have to save up money to make sure you have a buffer, you need to understand that a big sum of the money you make goes off to the government (at least in the Netherlands where 21% of your income is paid to the government).
But besides the mentioned financial part, I would like to come back on the motivation and the 'startup' of a blog.
At the beginning of this course we were put in a group of people and told that it was our job to find a blog-provider and to write a blog once a week to keep track of the curriculum and theory.
For me the prime motivation was to keep track of my time here in Oslo and to later be able to look back at the things I've learned or experienced.
When we got into our groups, the motivation of my peers was quite low. I took it upon me to find us a blog-provider and to make the blog visually appealing to look at for the teachers. (which I hope I achieved).
There were very clear instructions that the blogs shouldn't just be words written down, but should possess a certain amount of personal reflection or interesting academic sources or thoughts up for discussion. I noticed that my peers didn't quite understand it and I was afraid that this would affect my own blog, since we were told that the group blog was part of the individual work requirement(s).
Writing a blog is something that is quite popular these days, per example, writing a blog is super good for your "SEO" (search engine optimisation). Certain keywords will help your website reach the top faster when someone is googling for a certain service or question.
I think the assignment of having your class write weekly blogs is a good thing, however I think the execution was handled rather poorly. Motivation for some students comes with the check, did you actually write a blog?
If students don't feel like their work is being checked, then why bother to write it in the first place. There was no feeling of 'you have to do this' attached to writing the blog, which I think for some students was needed.
I must say for me personally it was no problem because I like writing, using sources and asking philosophical questions, but I think others might've struggled.
Then, everyone used a different blog-provider. It would be interesting to have all the blogs written in ONE place and not just a random place, but perhaps a page that's attached to the course-page, where students can read each other's work and other students from other place can also, maybe they would be more inspired to perhaps follow this course next semester.
Right now the blogs are everywhere and after this semester is over probably forgotten. I don't even know if this is going to be read because we haven't gotten feedback from anyone on our blogs since the 5th of october.
It feels quite empty. people like me, who write a blog every week, don't get feedback and don't know if any of the teacher even takes the time to read this... Perhaps you have, but we're in the dark of knowing.
You can use the blogs as a way of professionalising the course of Fairytales and Creativity. The blogs can become a great selling point for the course, to motivate and inspire other students, and each other.
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a loosening —
My skin the border of intimacy
the obstacle to breach my soul,
My soul an empty destination, lonely and hollow.
Borrowing and collecting rituals
as if mimicking magically bestows meaning.
Inspiration is plentiful
like a handful of seeds each one’s potential being for greatness,
Yet most will lie dormant.
A stream of moonlight reflecting on a black wall in my darkened room
but the moon no longer calls to me…
I roll unto my side, close my eyes,
and sigh my surrender to another empty night.
A collection of breaths prayed to silent passing hours,
eventually loosening my fisted heart, my discontent
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Day 2. December Series
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This Week in Music (Week 48, 2022)
Playlist, here. Details Below.
New Songs
Chase & Status straight to my veins, please. UK Garage stand up! Song
When country music hits, it hits. "When I need to get back to who I am / There ain't but just one road there / Sometimes you gotta start nowhere". Song
Oof new Metallica!! Fresh as they were in 1983. Song
Get in your feelings with this Tunisian choon. Shouts to my little bro Subhi for putting me on. Song
Mood-y. Song
A whole fucking vibe. Brand new artist discovery this week. Lyrics cut deep on this one: "this life is a cycle". Song
Throwback
Big up to my friend Andrea for educating me on this gorgeous classic. Connie Francis ruled the charts globally from Europe to the Far East Asia to Australia and beyond in the 1950s and 1960s. She was the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100! And went to record another 50+ No. 1 hits in her storied carrier. Song
Cover
Hootie & the Blowfish covering that iconic REM tune. Something about religion. Song
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