So, while Aoife tries in vain to get some sleep, I’m getting to work on the next chapter.
Chapter was originally planned to be the introduction of Áine into the classroom, but I’ve now realised that there’s a chapter missing, and it would be a waste for me to skip over it. Therefore the classroom chapter is pushed to Chapter 9, and a new Chapter 8 is coming, which I’m calling ‘Home Alone’…(I’m not sure anyone else has ever thought of that title….not even during the early 90’s)… 😀
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One thing that Aine doesn’t know that we tend to take for granted is basic math skill. She probably can’t count all that high. She may be able to do simple addition and subtraction, but I imagine that multiplication and division may as well be differential equations for her.
So Aoife is going to be stuck there for 5 weeks? There are worse places to be stuck, but five weeks.
Ouch, five weeks in that position? Bed sores are not fun.
Oh, btw, Aoife, you know that old saying, “Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it”?
Hey, look at that. Áine has already learned “Z”. We’re making good progress on those English lessons already. Even if we are going about it backwards. 😛
@Kessy: I’m still working out ways for Aine for intergrate with a modern school. Part of me thinks that it won’t go well….the other part of me recons that this will also make for good comedy fuel 😀
@Henry: Well…Aoife’s got her ‘ninja-skills’, she might be able to extract herself eventually. That might be difficult though; it was tricky get out from under Aine the last time she landed on her 🙂
@Azreal:
Sorry…I just had to….
After thinking about it, one moment I’d like to see is the first time Aine is confronted with a globe and it really sinks in for her just how big Earth really is and small Ireland is in comparison. To me that would seem like probably the most mind blowing thing she’ll encounter. Because it’s not just something completely new and unfamiliar like modern technology, but it will also completely change her understanding of the world she lived in.
@Kessy: I really aught to work that in there somehow 😀
It reminds me of the surprise I had when I first encountered a world map when I was little. By that time I was already familiar with the shape of Ireland and where it was in relation with the rest of Western Europe. I also knew about the shape of the continental US, Africa and Australia…but I had no idea where they were (some place far off…) But when encountered my first globe I remember being surprised and fascinated with *where* everything was placed in relation to each other.
That globe still exists somewhere back in my hometown in Ireland….and showing my age somewhat, that globe still had the USSR, East/West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia on it ;D
Pffft, the globe I have on top of my bookcase still shows the capital of Vietnam as being Saigon. To be fair it’s a hand me down from my older siblings and there’s a big age gap between me and them.
I will say that lately I’ve been feeling a real disconnect with people who don’t remember the Cold War. Some of them treat the threat of nuclear war like something out of ancient history. How anyone could not take nuclear weapons seriously both baffles me and really really disturbs me.
@Kessy: It is a bit interesting (and I sign of my own advancing age…I’m not old, I’m ‘retro’!! :D) to be in the presence of adults who were not even born when the Cold War ended. I was born in the early 80s, so much of my own memories of it where that of a child, but I still remember a world where a map of Europe contained large red areas that were essentially places to avoid. I often wondered how people from Scandinavia managed to drive to central Europe with a whole load of Warsaw Pact counties in the way (I didn’t know about the bridge / ferries between Sweden and Denmark).
But it was certainly a world were even technically neutral Ireland felt the sense of danger attached to a Nuclear War or even Soviet invasion. I do remember the Berlin Wall falling, and an odd feeling of there being only one Germany. Throughout my life there had always been two of them, and then suddenly the big-bad USSR was just….”Russia”. My first 2 decades did seem to have seem to have an interesting Cold War / Post-Cold War contrast to them. The following decade had me living in China for a stint, which would have been pure madness when I was born.
I fear that a lot of younger folks don’t how recently those times really were.
I’m a little older than you, Rawr (I was born in 76), but we seem to have a pretty similar perspective. The most vivid memory I have of anything in my life is watching the hammer and sickle being taken down from over the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the Russian tricolor.
But what really bothers me isn’t that people don’t have a concept of the great powers being on the brink of war. What bothers me is that some people don’t seem to appreciate that messing around carelessly with nuclear weapons means the end of the world. I was talking to a supporter of a certain politician recently and I pointed out that the cavalier comments they’d made about nuclear weapons should be an automatic disqualification, regardless of politics. And they told me that they thought it wasn’t a big deal, because the President would have to go through a bunch of steps to even get the nuclear launch codes and that the President would have to go through Congress and the UN if they wanted to do anything major.
So I explained to this person about the nuclear football that’s always by the President’s side and that the only time any nation’s nuclear football had ever been activated was during the Norwegian rocket incident in 1995 – *after* the end of the Cold War. And then I told them bluntly, “You should know this. It’s extremely disturbing that you don’t. It’s even more disturbing that you’re listening to people who’d lie to you about such a thing.” Honestly that conversation just scares me to death.