by kpalana | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
Thank You Today was storyboard critique day. I was a little wary this morning to be honest because there were 25 people to review, but everyone presented well and most are ready to start creating animatics and gearing up to produce their “final”...
by kpalana | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
Visiting Family Hello again. I know you must think I have all this time and internet access to write daily blog posts but actually I don’t. I just try to communicate rather quickly if and when I can. So far I’ve been lucky enough to get online a little bit...
by kpalana | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
Clap Clap Clap So now of course Ethiopia will always have a special place in my heart because of one small highlight today that really stands out in my teaching career so far. After I gave what I felt was a rather standard demonstration today, the students...
by kpalana | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
First Day of School This morning I walked along the dusty road with Bekele, the coordinator of the Masters of Film program. It’s quite different from my daily walks to The American University of Rome. We got to campus and they have a lovely gallery...
by kpalana | Dec 6, 2015 | Blog
First Impressions OK. I’m not going to lie. I’m not the same broke graduate student I once was back in 2000 slogging through the muck in New Delhi, India in monsoon rains or the young woman in her twenties without children traipsing through Guatemala,...
