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Me and Jenny have been plotting this evening. She's just moved from Reading to Bournemouth to do an MA in ...something radio based, and during this plotting I realised that, for one reason or another, I'm not free until November. WHAT?! How is this even possible? I'd only be free Sunday - Thursday anyway thanks to work, but:
* This coming week I am seeing a student, modernised production of Lysistrata with seagreenish, so am unavailable.
* The following week I'm seeing a Uni production of Agamemnon, also with seagreenish, but this time IN ORIGINAL GREEK, like a Kings College production, eei! These are crazy exciting as I've never seen a classical play performed before.
* Now we're into the week commencing Monday 18th, and on the Tuesday the Cubs are having an early Halloween evening, and I am NOT missing that - Halloween is my absolute favourite day of the year, and so chatting about it with 26 kids? AWESOME TIMES.
* Then on the Sunday I am 90% certain I'm off to a camping trip with the cubs. I get to go for free, they have to pay £75 each. Erm, win? Except I've never camped so this'll be interesting - my friend Carly, who is a leader, is insisting that I attend, so I better do. :)
* Then it's back to work for 2 days, followed by real!Halloween.
THEN IT'S NOVEMBER, WHAT THE CRAZY HELL?! Even when I do visit her, I'm going to have to skip Cubs and Latin for the week. I don't understand how I have so much going on, and yet I feel like I'm wasting my life? I think it's the Uni transition, the lack of aiming for something - even though I'm 80% of the way through filling in my PGCE form and am working my way towards getting one of those 16 places at Cambridge University.
...I should really stop complaining, my life is kind of brilliant. I just wish my Uni beloveds were here too.
Also, the cubs are all wonderful. As I said, there's around 26 of them, and they are dead cute. There's around 11 girls, who mostly seem to love me, and I am slowly learning names - I definitely know 4, at any rate. :) Last week was my second session, and they were designing posters for their car wash this saturday and the bonfire night in Willingham, which is actually run by the Scouts. This was far less intimidating than my first night, which involved supervising the kids as they made FIRE, and cooked banana splits over the grates. ACTUAL OPEN FIRES AND 8-10 YEAR OLDS. No-one was injured under my care, amazingly. Anyway, Chloe got Carly to distract me, and she went around getting everyone to sign a card she'd made me from a spare bit of paper, and they presented it to me at the end of the night. She wasn't even told to do it by the leaders, she just decided to make it! I kind of love them all already. Also, I went to Cubs feeling exhausted and down, and left feeling energised and cheerful. They are brilliant. <3
How are you folks? I rarely update anymore because I feel so MUNDANE. Maybe I will have kid anecdotes to share over the coming weeks! Laura rang me last night (I hadn't heard her voice since she moved to Greece a month ago, I may have cried...) and reminded me that 26 kids must = nit city. I am now slightly afraid. NITS. FEAR.
* This coming week I am seeing a student, modernised production of Lysistrata with seagreenish, so am unavailable.
* The following week I'm seeing a Uni production of Agamemnon, also with seagreenish, but this time IN ORIGINAL GREEK, like a Kings College production, eei! These are crazy exciting as I've never seen a classical play performed before.
* Now we're into the week commencing Monday 18th, and on the Tuesday the Cubs are having an early Halloween evening, and I am NOT missing that - Halloween is my absolute favourite day of the year, and so chatting about it with 26 kids? AWESOME TIMES.
* Then on the Sunday I am 90% certain I'm off to a camping trip with the cubs. I get to go for free, they have to pay £75 each. Erm, win? Except I've never camped so this'll be interesting - my friend Carly, who is a leader, is insisting that I attend, so I better do. :)
* Then it's back to work for 2 days, followed by real!Halloween.
THEN IT'S NOVEMBER, WHAT THE CRAZY HELL?! Even when I do visit her, I'm going to have to skip Cubs and Latin for the week. I don't understand how I have so much going on, and yet I feel like I'm wasting my life? I think it's the Uni transition, the lack of aiming for something - even though I'm 80% of the way through filling in my PGCE form and am working my way towards getting one of those 16 places at Cambridge University.
...I should really stop complaining, my life is kind of brilliant. I just wish my Uni beloveds were here too.
Also, the cubs are all wonderful. As I said, there's around 26 of them, and they are dead cute. There's around 11 girls, who mostly seem to love me, and I am slowly learning names - I definitely know 4, at any rate. :) Last week was my second session, and they were designing posters for their car wash this saturday and the bonfire night in Willingham, which is actually run by the Scouts. This was far less intimidating than my first night, which involved supervising the kids as they made FIRE, and cooked banana splits over the grates. ACTUAL OPEN FIRES AND 8-10 YEAR OLDS. No-one was injured under my care, amazingly. Anyway, Chloe got Carly to distract me, and she went around getting everyone to sign a card she'd made me from a spare bit of paper, and they presented it to me at the end of the night. She wasn't even told to do it by the leaders, she just decided to make it! I kind of love them all already. Also, I went to Cubs feeling exhausted and down, and left feeling energised and cheerful. They are brilliant. <3
How are you folks? I rarely update anymore because I feel so MUNDANE. Maybe I will have kid anecdotes to share over the coming weeks! Laura rang me last night (I hadn't heard her voice since she moved to Greece a month ago, I may have cried...) and reminded me that 26 kids must = nit city. I am now slightly afraid. NITS. FEAR.