Herding Calls!!!

This week pass rather peacefully by exchange terms...

Skiing lesson went exceptionally well! I am progressing to the higher slope now and able to edge better.
We had a new teacher this week. And he was really great with his instruction!
I can totally see some of the ICP qualities in his teaching. The praising, using the analogy of wanting to clamp someone's hand on the tongue of the boot to showcase the kinestatic part of learning, the touching foot technique, thumper technique, followed by the proper technique explanation, and the last part of playing a game by asking us to follow his action! Together with his praising to reward us, giving us an extra run, correction of technique, assessment of our individual skills, he makes another model for me to aspire to be a better coach!

Whisky tasting was good to me as well!!! Won a rocking glass that will never falls at whisky tasting! First time lucky!

Went to many talks this week as well. There was the ExploHub talk about this place for the masters level student to engage in real life simulation of exploring for oil and gas reserves, the Arctic drilling talk about how its so much rubbish, a talk by a wildlife TV show presenter about her experience diving around UK region. They were all really insightful and showed how vibrant Aberdeen is despite the small town that it is.

Nice place for the sharing session with wildlife expert! With mic for everyone!

I also went for this Scandinavian Singing Workshop that was SUPERB. We played many fun singing games that could be very good orientation games and it also stretches my vocal cords alot!!!!
Eg. Singing a pitch to the person next to you and passing it on,
Shouting the person's name in a loud manner and emphasizing on the syllable to transmit the word 20 miles!
Dancing while singing while twirling around!

Unbelievable fun! I never imagine that with my lousy voice I could do all this in a singing workshop. Totally dispelled whatever notion I had about my singing voice!


I also heard kulning from our teacher! It is simply out of the world. Basically it is the old way of herding live stock (in the middle of north Sweden) and of communication between herding women on mountains and between them and the home places down in the valley. This was a way of for instance crying for help, telling the family that a sheep had gone missing or crying for the hearding women to come home.

Hearing it live is 100000 times more mindblowing!

One of the songs that i learnt!

Love the room at King's College where we had the workshop!

This weekend is St Patrick's Day! Should be quite rowdy everywhere! Shall try to study a bit and do my assignment also!

Ciao!