Very overdue catch up post
Well as per usual it’s been forever since I updated this thing! Lots has happened and not all that much, been a very strange year really. At the mo I’m back in my room in Grannys will stick this up online at some stage tomorrow, just done myself some Yoga and feeling pretty good, has been ages since I did that too! I’ve finished my PGCE and am now a qualified Physics teacher and as with most new teachers, unemployed. But I shall be jetting off back to Wales (and my boy), thankfully Cardiff this time (woohoo civilisation) in a little under two weeks and hopefully I will find something there. Honestly would love to just land some TEFL work until I can find a permanent Physics role, been teaching the TEFL for the summer and having great fun. Does help that I got the baby class (7 year olds!) but also just nice that there is no1 in my classroom judging me and telling me all the things I’ve done wrong, and I’m an equal with all the other teachers which as it happened were nearly all the same as the teachers there two years ago!
I’m not gonna moan, no one wants to listen and I’m in a good mood so don’t want to type it, suffice to say that this year fairly sucked, it was great living with Conan and having our own place, but otherwise it was pretty torturous, I would not recommend Bangor uni to anyone and the PGCE is something you should definitely not enter into unless you are 1500% decided!
So been a perfect few weeks for me, cleared my head no end and TEFL has definitely has given me a more optimistic worldview. However I need to get back to actual life! Find a proper job that’s going to last past mid August, and pay a bit more, the hourly rate is damn good but I need more hours! And I think I’m missing out on recruitment open evenings etc over in Cardiff while I’m dossing here! So return is imminent!
Other then work stuff wise... I brought back with me a few pieces of jewellery that I made and I’ve been wearing them and having them noticed even by complete strangers! Even the woman in the museum that I bought a pencil from! The comments have been great for the ol ego and very encouraging. Have so many ideas for jewellery designs that I want to try make, so many techniques I want to try out and all my stuff is in Wales! An Etsy and maybe a Folksy shop shall be appearing shortly and going to have to find out how I go about getting stuff assayed, probable that money is going to dictate that I work in copper for the next while though, so assaying maybe not such a big deal, just got to find a good copper solder! I think that’s really what I’d like to do with the rest of my life, but I’m too pragmatic and flat out scared to just go for it, I wish I was a braver person!
I have a friend who spent that last two years teaching in the back end of nowhere (Oldcastle) and living with her parents and starts in September at film school in Paris, I have the upmost respect for her. We both decided in French class in first year of school that we would make films, I would write she would direct and both of us would go to the Oscars together! I’m not exactly holding up my end! Haven’t written in years, I have a story about 7 chapters into that I had in my head was a work in progress, looked at what date I last edited it and it was 2008! That’s not progress! But I think what I really want is to make jewellery so that’s what I’ll put my energy and focus into for the time being!
So got another week and a bit in Dublin, in an effort to not spend money and to get design ideas, I shall be trawling the museums, Cathal Bruagh (sooo not spelt right) Barracks next, possibly tomorrow maybe Monday, depending if I decide to brave my skates tomorrow. I don’t think they’re what put my back out last week, and I wanna go whoosh whoosh on them! Will also be sneaking into bookshops and reading the books there, had a great hour or so in Hodges Figges the other day, they have some great metal work books J
If anyone is around I still have the same phone number as forever, and once it’s cheap I’m probably in. Hope everyone is well. Here’s to next year being a whole bucket better than last year! ...Fingers crossed!
...The class have been little sweethearts today!