So I went to the first aforementioned writing class on Monday night, and all in all I am very pleased. The prof is an old news hand named Roy Thomas who used to be a CBC reporter and now works as the PR head for the Upper Canada Law Society. (Upper Canada, you Yanks, basically means Ontario. It's a long story...)
Anyhow, white-haired Roy looks to be my senior by a few years and clearly knows his stuff and how to teach. He explained that he'd be personally helping each of us get stuff in print (if we wanted his help).
I did feel slightly odd, sitting there with a group whose average age was probably less than the age of my sons. (Some looked like kids to me, I mean high school, and then we'd learn they had some responsible media position at such and such or so and so...)
We played a get-to-know you game in which we wrote three statements related to ourselves--two false and one true. Then we'd all vote on each person's statements (which was true). My true statement was that I had once received a letter from Richard Nixon. I was eleven and Nixon had just lost to Kennedy in 1960. I wrote him, and he wrote back. (And then I lost the letter!)
And now I have to get to work!
Anyhow, white-haired Roy looks to be my senior by a few years and clearly knows his stuff and how to teach. He explained that he'd be personally helping each of us get stuff in print (if we wanted his help).
I did feel slightly odd, sitting there with a group whose average age was probably less than the age of my sons. (Some looked like kids to me, I mean high school, and then we'd learn they had some responsible media position at such and such or so and so...)
We played a get-to-know you game in which we wrote three statements related to ourselves--two false and one true. Then we'd all vote on each person's statements (which was true). My true statement was that I had once received a letter from Richard Nixon. I was eleven and Nixon had just lost to Kennedy in 1960. I wrote him, and he wrote back. (And then I lost the letter!)
And now I have to get to work!
posted by Ted | 4:22 AM
2 Comments:
Dad, so cool... So what were the two FALSE statements that you came up with and did you throw anyone for a loop with the Richard Nixon letter? I hope you baited those youngsters! Glad to hear your first class went well. Let me know how things progress! Did you use the "I have six grandbabies" as one of your false statements? Maybe you could have also said you smoked a joint with Bill Clinton in Moscow.
Lots of love..
Jeremy
The other false statements were: (1) that I once hitchhiked from Orlando to Miami and (2) that my father was once an assistant to a Member of Parliament. Six voted for (1) and three for (2) and six voted for the correct answer, so I fooled nine out of fifteen. (My first statement in fact was based on a true incident which was the time, in the sumner of 1971, when I hitchhiked with Ren Adams from Selma, Alabama to Mobile, Alabama.)
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