Taking 4 months off can have a drastic impact on your intelligence. You stop having to use your brain in the same way you do back home and, before you know it, you've forgotten how to read and write. This is particularly hard for me when I've been studying at uni for the last five years.
In order to continue my education I am attending Motorhome School, taught by Professor Matthew Bevan. Due to Matt's extensive knowlege on a little bit about everything, we have covered a wide range of subjects so far.
In Germany and Belgium he taught me about WWI: why it started, how the war progressed and details on certain battles. I was taken on a class excursion to the site of the Battle of Paschendale (Belgium) and we attended the Paschendale Museum. My WW1 studies will continue when we travel through France with visits to various battlefields including the Battle of the Somme.
English and Scottish history has largely dominated the curriculum in the last few weeks. We have studied the rise and fall of England, the great fire of London, the plague, the English Royal family (largely focusing on Henry 8th and the Tudors), and William Wallace. Not only am I taught these things verbally, but I am shown documentary films (I use that term loosely) including Elizabeth and Braveheart.
I was also taught about Chekov and Stanislavsky at the National Theatre, John Harrison and the longitude problem at Greenwich, the history of steam at the National Science Museum, Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley at Westminster Abbey, the Viking Raid at Lindisfarne, and the Schiehallion experiment while at Lake Tummel. I have even been given recommended readings which I am told to read off the iPhone, courtesy of wiki of course.
Our drives provide the time to study music and I have listened to Rolling Stone Magazines top 50 songs of all time. I was quizzed on the name of the song and artist when each song started and was given clues to help me if I didn't know. So far we've also listened to classics like The Beatles' Abbey Road, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms and Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
All jokes aside, it has been fantastic and I've learnt so much. Soon Matt won't be the only one who knows a little bit about everything.
cute!!
ReplyDeletemel xx