This weekend, I attended the AFDA Level 1 coaching course, which entitles me to be an accredited coach. It was a pretty awesome thing, with lots of Ultimate talk augmented by discussions of teaching methods and knowledge transfer skills (yippee for being a teacher!). There were a couple of Chilly boys (and former ones) present, and in conjunction with a lot of familiar faces from the ultimate community it had the feeling of a get-together of friends. I'm not sure that it was quite the same vibe as being at my 5 year college reunion - which I was very upset to miss, in part because of Charlottesville at this time of year but far more because I haven't seen folks that did, and continue, to mean a considerable amount of time. That's the way the cookie crumbles, I suppose. Nonetheless, it did drive home "the distance thing", which when you're on the other side of the world can be rather significant. In Australia they even have a name for it, namely the "tyranny of distance", which refers to both internal geography as well as being a long way away from a lot of things. More on that later, I suppose.
Other than that, I'm working on writing a chapter for my supervisor, as well as pre-planning my trip to Singapore and Indonesia. I'm really, REALLY excited about it....
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