September - English

Here there comes, September, but the wiliness to come back to school has lightly changed from whe nI was a child. The very warm days seem to like to stay here and the atmosphere does no need to turn out into Autumn yet. 

This coming year, though, will start very differently. I am provably changing the place, the people, the system... will all end seeming to be the same or will there really be an important change? In anyway, I will be living things differently because this summer has been very significative in the informal education, friends from here, from Italy, the macrobiotic alimentation, the Summerhill School... and everything which goes through the soul that is provably, more important.

I have to dedicate a whole paragraph to Summerhill, of A. S. Neill, because it’s becoming my perfect idea of what is education, a reality and my future. Please, watch its film here (vimeo) and if you wish, read the book as well. It will be present for long into the Chronicles from the real educational world.

Also Brockwood will be as closer as ever so Marina will become part of it! After all, it seems that free / alternative schools are the ones that agree with my understanding of what is education. I have already my soul in it… now I will be doing more research and this Autumn I will be visiting Neill’s school.

Only few of you know –until now- that I secretly keep a big collection of almost 400 children’s books! I keep them since I was a child and I still let it grow little by little every time I pass through a book shop. If you have some children’s books and you would like to contribute giving them to my collection, I would appreciate it very much indeed!

I’m done lots of discoveries, or just a few but very important (!) and soon you will see them in its folder. There are news in inner life, too. Do not hesitate to write to me to discuss everything I think or to share something at: gcolelsa7@alumnes.ub.edu

As the Barça’s coach says, Pep Guardiola, “everything that doesn’t go through the passion, doesn’t make any sense”, and as you can see, I follow fully his advice!

Make become true your dreams,

“happiness means to be interested in life, to respond at life not only with the brain but with all your personality (Neill).”

Gisela