Hello world :) Long time no see. I am currently having rather a nice time in France, in Lille. I'm staying at Manue's place, and going into school during the day. The kids were rather surprised and pleased to see me yesterday - they were told there would be a surprise for them, but not what it was. ;) It's nice to be with a well behaved class - my ( Read more... )

Well, I have been in school for two weeks now, and this last week taught a full week - I did everything Mon - Thurs mornings and Tues - Thurs afternoons. Not always quite running the day - I think on Tuesday, the class teacher (CT1) looked after the reading as I was still getting something ready, and little odd bits like that. In general, things ( Read more... )

This is about my reaction to starting teaching on my current placement. I've been given a lot of planning information and books and resources by my classteacher, and I already have a whole heap of planning to do. The current list ( Read more... )

OK, not actually my birthday today - officially it was tuesday, but it's kind of ended up getting spread out over several days - my mum sent me some little presents in time for Tuesday, which was nice of her, but it kind of sucks sitting there at 6am on my own opening stuff. A lot of the joy of giving and receiving presents for me is sharing the ( Read more... )

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Despite most of my essays being done, things still seem to be as busy as ever, and I'm quite tired today - I got in from uni, read the paper for a bit, then fell asleep all sort of sprawled on the bed. Which has to be done from time to time ( Read more... )

Hmm, I kinda vanished there for a bit. I sort of got a bit buried by life, and am just about fighting my way out now. Lots of assignments to do just now - I've got four out of the seven done, so I feel like I'm winning. I plan on doing another one in the morning, if I get up, and then I can do another one at the weekend, and then the last one's not ( Read more... )

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Well, I have been pretty busy since I last posted, so I'll go for the brief resumé ( Read more... )

Many apologies for the lack of recent updates, things have been rather busy, between school and assignments and christmas shopping and seeing friends. The end of my time in school was lovely - the kids are very hard work, but I enjoyed going in every day, which tells me something :) I've also been back for a couple of days here and there, and on ( Read more... )