I´m a student!
22 years since i graduated Teachers College, with my arts and crafts-teacher degree. And now, I have started the Master studies. I´ve been putting off thinking much about it until now when it all of a sudden started yesterday.. I´ve felt like the biggest gambler getting into this. The past 8 years since i quit my teaching-job, 5 of the 7 schools who had jobs for arts and crafts teachers in the reagion, have simply shut down the arts and crafts education. So spending two years taking a degree in a subject that they simply don´t have anymore, seems at best foolish to me. But it seems I´ve always been a person who follows the heart. And my heart lies with ARTing, with creating, with inspiring others to discover their own pure joy of creating.
These past two days of lectures, and trying to wrap my head around all that is new, my faith has been restored. It seems there are things going on in the ministry regarding creative subjects in the schools, that might just mean that I am taking my Masters-degree at the exact right time. I used to be daunted at the thought of all the curriculum, all the reading, but now I can feel my curriousity is awakened, and I want to learn much more about the theory of the field. I want to have more arguments, a better vocabulary, when discussing with other “non-arts-and-crafts-enthusiastics”.
I am SO looking forward to all the new knowledge waiting there to be discovered!
And on a more personal level, another piece of news happened just yesterday: I´m a Grandma again! This time our oldest girl gave birth to a little girl called Amanda. My heart is swelling with pride and love, and I am so much looking forward to getting to know this new little person!