Men in tweed
The highlight of the week was me finding (temporary) employment.
It began in October when my old colleague at Pleasureland, Anya, found me on Facebook; we chewed the fat and I discovered she is now a lecturer at Liverpool Hope University teaching the future Lord Chief Justices of this world in Travel & Tourism management in the Geography Dept. She asked me if I fancied popping in to chat about my trip with her third years (that’s not what she calls them but as some of them read this I can’t really repeat what she said).
After a lot of pestering I agreed to go in and this Wednesday was the day.
I rocked up and eventually found the geography dept. It was awash with lecturers with long, grey hair, stonewash jeans and a lot of tweed. The session itself wasn’t very intimidating, only 4 of the 6 students in the class turned up for the 2 hour class. I was happy waffling on but the poor students looked very disinterested; I wasn’t disheartened by this because I remember being in the same situation myself all those years ago. I did wonder how some layabout’s holiday snaps could be at all relevant to a Uni course but Anya did pipe up with some questions that were relevant to their course, despite her saying that all the class would be interested in would be the price of a pint.
I really enjoyed it and they were a decent bunch of people – I just hope I didn’t waste 2 hours of their lives that they could have spent dodging tax and listening to the Levellers, or whatever the kids do these days.
No way!! The ‘feedback’ is in….they found you quite inspirational. Thought I should bring you back for next year. Said you were funny and the two hours went really quick.PS – there wasn’t ANY tweed:http://www.hope.ac.uk/ssss/pages/geo-staff.htmlIf that doesn’t put you off doing Geography at Hope…….