LAS reunion and school stuff.
One of the things we learned about in teaching is the 'spiral curriculum' - that you go round the same topics but get deeper and deeper every time. That's the way my brain feels at the moment - layers on layers - a spiral - there are so many things going round my head.
I had an amazing weekend with friends in Liverpool for the reunion of LAS! (Liverpool Anime Soc). I really enjoyed seeing people I hadn't seen in a long time. I had fun. I saw my boyfriend. It was hectic and I was tired right from the start and there wasn't enough time to talk to everyone I wanted to talk to enough.
I really am enjoying university. I love the teaching theory and I love being in school. We were just in school today and I was observing women teachers and seeing how they cope with classroom management, especially with a load of boys. My mentor is awesome. She's so funny and I have a good laugh with her. I have so much background reading that I really should do though. I definitely have to do some for next week. I need to start doing more work.
I need to sleep earlier and get up earlier because I want to get into school early enough to do choir.
I managed to spill toffee popcorn inside my bag and everything got sticky, including some books. SO. ANNOYING.
I love the social aspect of the course; I was out on Monday night with some of the younger lot of teaching students at the pub quiz: we won and got £50 behind the bar as a prize which was BAD because they bought a round of tequila shots and jagerbombs and I'd also had 2 Rekorderligs - or was it 3? - and was quite exhausted already from the weekend and didn't get home till 12.30pm. Then was KNACKERED for the next day. Which was a shame because it was really good and about energy and we burnt crisps with bunsen burners. No way am I going out with that lot again.
I have a group of people I really like on the course and I hope we'll stay friends no matter what now.
The funny thing is, being social with course people, while knackering, is really pushing me to be social and do more stuff with other friends. I am starting to see that if you are enjoying yourself, maybe you actually *want* to meet people and talk to them. I had quite resigned myself to not really having a social life because I didn't want to - I couldn't face seeing anyone - I felt so tired and down when I was working in Liverpool in the tutoring business. Somehow, I've turned almost outgoing by doing teaching! I'm natural introvert but I still want to socialise. If I had a choice I wouldn't come home until I got to roll into bed. It's weird. I still need downtime but I need less of it. I don't just want to huddle indoors and watch tv, I want to see people! Once I do lessons though, I won't have time to see people. Oh the irony.