Podcast. . .Check

I love crossing things off my list and that's what I just did!!!! Podcast done, yeah me! If I had more time on my hands I know I really would have enjoyed this assignment much more than I did. Even though I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed these days I did have fun making the podcast. The editing part was the best for me. Audacity is really great once you get used to it. I have to admit that I was very nervous about this project. I know it is silly, but I hate the sound of my own voice. (Sadly, my husband agrees and wishes I would give my voice a rest more often) It sounds much better in my head. :) So, when I started recording it and plating it back, I was actually cringing. Oh well, at least I don't have to suffer hearing it everyday like he does :)

So, here is a poem that I used in my podcast. It is fitting for many of the educators out there!

Afternoon in School
The Last Lesson
When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart
My pack of unruly hounds: I cannot start
Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt,
I can haul them and urge them no more.
No more can I endure to bear the brunt
Of the books that lie out on the desks: a full three score
Of several insults of blotted pages and scrawl
Of slovenly work that they have offered me.
I am sick, and tired more than any thrall
Upon the woodstacks working weariedly.


And shall I take
The last dear fuel and heap it on my soul
Till I rouse my will like a fire to consume
Their dross of indifference, and burn the scroll
Of their insults in punishment? - I will not!
I will not waste myself to embers for them,
Not all for them shall the fires of my life be hot,
For myself a heap of ashes of weariness, till sleep
Shall have raked the embers clear: I will keep
Some of my strength for myself, for if I should sell
It all for them, I should hate them -
- I will sit and wait for the bell.

D. H. Lawrence