Lockdown day 38

A wee bit of variety for me today in my daily routine.  I was invited to take part in a Q and A session on Zoom with teacher trainees in Singapore, which I did this morning at 11.30 my time, 6.30pm their time.  It was fun to be live with them in an online environment and I found myself forgetting that we weren't in the same room together.  I answered questions on language lessons, skills lessons, classroom management,  careers and then finished with 'champagne moments' in their own teaching on the course so far - moments when they felt that things were coming together and 'sparkled' or 'bubbled'.   It was the school I mentioned in this blip:
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2693051528331132941

Things I'd like to remember from it:  it wasn't as scary as I thought it might be and I wasn't as nervous;  remember to show you're interested/engaged in an online environment by smiling, nodding etc as people can be looking at you when you're not talking but still on the screen but you don't know they're looking at you;  don't be scared of the silence and give thinking time, just like you do in face-to-face;  trainees may be more 'experts' in using the on-line tools than you, so learn from them and ask them to show you how things work;  humour still works;  personalisation and telling anecdotes are as powerful online as they are face-to-face;  I need to make friends with Google docs :-)  

My blip today is of three 'donas' we've bought over the years in Brasil. On the left is Dona Paula - named Paula because we bought her in Sao Paulo and she was the first of our donas. If you look carefully, she's suffered a couple of injuries over the years.  On the right is Dona Letizia - named because we bought her around the time that the then Prince of Asturias announced he would marry Letizia and I think we bought her in Juquehy, Litoral Norte in Sao Paulo.   And for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the dona in the middle or whereabout in Brasil we bought her, and neither can Bb!   We were cleaning the shelf where they all sit in the sofa-bed room upstairs and I decided that their day had come to appear on blip.

No dinner to report as I'm blipping earlier than usual, but it will be the leftover chicken from yesterday, eaten cold and with the reheated roast potatoes and veg.   I wonder if when this lockdown is over we'll continue to eat in more?  Certainly, having something on a Sunday lunch that can be tweaked for Monday and turned into soup for Wednesday or Thursday appeals!