It’s the last day before I fly out to Europe tomorrow. I had a busy day with five ethics classes. I started a new time slot and had one student in a new class. Today’s were my last classes for three weeks, paused halfway through the “Old-Fashioned” topic. I’ve been showing the kids a photo of some telephone directories and asking if they know what they are. So far only one kid had any idea what they were. Most of them guessed things like dictionaries or encyclopaedias. And then when I explained what a phone directory was, they were astonished that such things existed, where you could just look up anybody’s phone number and address if you knew their name.
In between classes I did some travel prep, such as printing out train tickets for our various overland journeys between cities, and checking in online for our flights. Our flight departs at 3pm tomorrow, so we’ll have time in the morning to pack before heading to the airport. We have just over 24 hours of travel time from Sydney to Frankfurt, and then we need to get train tickets to Berlin and travel another 5 hours or so to get there. By the time we get t our hotel we’ll be lucky if it’s under 30 hours of travelling time.
Tonight I’m playing online board games with friends. My wife is out having dinner with her friends, and handing Scully over to one of them to take home, to look after her for the time we’ll be away. I cooked myself some scrambled eggs for dinner, which used up the last of our perishable food, apart from half a carton of milk which we’ll use up for breakfast tomorrow.
This time tomorrow I’ll be most of the way to Singapore!
Have a nice trip!