{"id":4968,"date":"2009-08-24T05:48:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T21:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2013-11-22T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T04:32:40","slug":"student-barbeques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/24\/student-barbeques\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Barbeques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-bbq-01\" alt=\"blog-bbq-01\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blogbbq01.jpg\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> Working as an educator of 18+ year olds + that you live in a condominium can be quite a lethal combination\u2026 because your students will find every opportunity at semester break to hold barbeque events at your place.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m staff advisor \/ counselor \/ agony aunt to one such group of students in the game development program at work, and they\u2019ve been with me for 2.5 years now. They\u2019re all final year students and will be graduating next April. As is fast becoming their ritual every semester break, barbeque events get organized, and The Rivervale was \u2018volunteered\u2019 again to be the spot.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair though, this must be like their fifth or sixth BBQ event in 2.5 years, and they\u2019re having it at my place for just the second time. And besides \u2013 that hefty management conservancy fee we pay every month\u2026 we hardly use the pool or the gym, so it\u2019s just as well that at least the BBQ pits get used.<\/p>\n<p>The pit is in quite a nice location; beside the main road, right next to a washing basin, and sheltered \/ seating areas. It\u2019d just rained for several hours too, so the evening was quite cooling.<\/p>\n<p>The students are all quite experts at this sort of thing already, though funnily one person got \u2018assigned\u2019 to do most of the cooking and grilling. I\u2019m not big on BBQed food as a rule \u2013 all that carbon getting into the food = early cancer. I like the activity of grilling though, and I suspect that\u2019s to do with my learning how to cook since my Perth days.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m gonna miss this group of students when they graduate next year. This is my first group of students that I\u2019m seeing through over three years at the school. But there\u2019ll always be photographic memories like these, and even if not, Facebook then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-bbq\" alt=\"blog-bbq\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blogbbq.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working as an educator of 18+ year olds + that you live in a condominium can be quite a lethal combination\u2026 because your students will find every opportunity at semester break to hold barbeque events at your place. I\u2019m staff<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/24\/student-barbeques\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Student Barbeques<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}