SC - T'ang Dynasty Cookbook

Sat Jan 13 12:38:02 PST 2001

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Hmmm. . .tough question.  I'd have to agree that the best way to approach the 
whole thing is to find a peer with the same interests and ask for help or 
offer to help on a project.  It allows you and the peer to get to know each 
other, and see if you can work well together. 

As for the idea of peers that chose their apprentices/students/squires etc.  
I feel I have to respond.

I'm a Pelican student (or protoge. . .we happen to use student) and I was 
asked.  In this case it was a practical matter of seeing if I would fit in 
with the rest of the extended  household.  Luckily my husband was already 
studented (is that a word?  well it is now :->) to the same Pelican so there 
was a lot of opportunity to watch me be a part of the household.  At the time 
I was asked he explained he wanted his students to be people he liked that he 
could be, or become, friends with, and that fit into the household well, 
along with any potential he saw in us.  He tends to watch a person to see if 
they'll fit in to the household and to see how they conduct themselves and 
what they do.  In the end this means he ends up asking people, but not out of 
being unapproachable or stuck up but because he has certain criteria he wants 
to make sure are filled. 

I know that in some cases it is a matter of being stuck up, but in other 
cases it is a matter of looking a wide range of reasons and it is rather 
unfair to paint all peers with such a wide brush.

Noemi

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<HTML>Hmmm. . .tough question.  I'd have to agree that the best way to approach the 
 whole thing is to find a peer with the same interests and ask for help or 
 offer to help on a project.  It allows you and the peer to get to know each 
 other, and see if you can work well together. 
 
 As for the idea of peers that chose their apprentices/students/squires etc.  
 I feel I have to respond.
 
 I'm a Pelican student (or protoge. . .we happen to use student) and I was 
 asked.  In this case it was a practical matter of seeing if I would fit in 
 with the rest of the extended  household.  Luckily my husband was already 
 studented (is that a word?  well it is now :->) to the same Pelican so there 
 was a lot of opportunity to watch me be a part of the household.  At the time 
 I was asked he explained he wanted his students to be people he liked that he 
 could be, or become, friends with, and that fit into the household well, 
 along with any potential he saw in us.  He tends to watch a person to see if 
 they'll fit in to the household and to see how they conduct themselves and 
 what they do.  In the end this means he ends up asking people, but not out of 
 being unapproachable or stuck up but because he has certain criteria he wants 
 to make sure are filled. 
 
 I know that in some cases it is a matter of being stuck up, but in other 
 cases it is a matter of looking a wide range of reasons and it is rather 
 unfair to paint all peers with such a wide brush.
 
 Noemi
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