Already 9:15pm and I had to skip the last dinner session as my brain is so fried that I can't take any more in. The design flaw in the course is a derious absense of time to actually mull over what you are learning. It's full on from 8:45 until oftem 9:30 at night, with only meal and coffee breaks. A lot of peopel are hitting the wall now - so to speak.
Today was another day of sessions with David Holmgren - he's a great teacher. This morning we talked about different climate types, and looked at examples, and then did a session on retrofitting the suburbs - looking at how suburbia has changed since the 1950sw, and how it might look in the future (there's a paper on this on his website if you want to read more).
We also did a couple of sessions on reading the landscape - and had an outdoor exercise in groups of 5 where we went out to the grounds to look at the landscape and see what we coudl learn just by observing. I found this ecercise really interesting. We went to a gully which had quite different characteristics on each side (moss on one side, leaf litter on the other, signs of regorwth post fire on one side, but different characteristics on the other). It was really amazing how much you could pick up just in 20 minutes walking around and really loooking at different features - both large and small.
The last session of the day was a look at a range of landscape photos David had taken in various places, and looking at how we could read them and what they said about climate, conditions and past soil use. Again very interesting (and there were some great photos too).
Sorry this post isn't more detailed, but I just don't have the brain energy for anything more. And it's an early start tomorrow (the only way to get some personal time is to get up early!).
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