The first week of school was a long series of adjustments. Anyone getting into a new routine will always face challenges or struggles, but adding a child to the mix just puts the FUN back into dysfunctional. Not that either one of us has issues with adjusting to change, we just both need time to adapt. And as I was adapting to my new learning environment, my daughter was also adapting to hers while at the same time, adapting to each other’s. Add my life-partner adapting to everyone’s new schedule and like I said, it was a series of adjustments. By the end of the first week, however, I had learned I was officially the oldest student in the class, one of only three parent-students and the only person without a cell phone. I know, shocking. How do you go to school and study communications without owning a cell phone. I don’t know, but I managed to do it. What else I found amazing was a simple statement from the Coordinator. He was giving advice about social media management and online conduct. He asked “How many of you have had Facebook since you were 13?” Hmmm, ok. When I was 13, the internet didn’t exist. Well, not to the general public. I can recall my first internet experience though. I was in grade 10 typing class (yes, you read that correctly, TYPING class) when the teacher asked if we wanted to see something neat. Of course we did, so all the students huddled around her desk to marvel at a photo and short bio of her son in his hockey team profile. He was away at University in the United States and it was amazing to us that we could see him right there on the screen when he was hundreds of kilometres away. Oh how far we’ve come since then. Just imagine where we’ll go! But then I got to thinking. None of my classmates (with a few possible exceptions) could even relate to that. How “Get off the internet, I need to use the phone,” is a phrase they have never heard at home. I bet they’ve never had to rewind a movie rental either. Or flip a tape cassette for that matter. And so now it is apparent that I am closer to the professor’s in age then my classmates. I don’t feel awkward about this really. It will just take some getting used to…and a little adjustment.
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Shauna QuinnNo stranger to taking the road less travelled, I must admit those not so great choices made me who I am and led me to where I am right now, which happens to be exactly where I am supposed to be. Archives
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