Well, my tutoring has finished for the week and today I met the final four out of seven Indigenous Australian students I'll be working closely with this semester. They're all absolutely engaging and have a determination to succeed. Last night I began reading Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It's one of the texts in the Introduction to Literature subject that I'm tutoring. The others are: Once Were Warriors by New Zealand novelist Alan Duff; The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper and Don't Take Your Love to Town by the prestigious Indigenous Australian writer Ruby Langford Ginbi. I'm tired but happy. If I said it wasn't demanding I'd be lying, but it's all good. I'll finish with a paragraph from Achebe's book.
The night was impenetrably dark. The moon had been rising later and later
every night until now it was seen only at dawn. And whenever the moon forsook
evening and rose at cock-crow the nights were as black as charcoal. (p.86)
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