It's funny how little things can set off big long waves of emotion. Like my drive home from Kendo tonight. I thought what I used to sometimes think... I'll call Mum for a quick chat while I'm driving home because she's always awake late. Needless to say, this was my cue to sob the entire way home. Just thinking of all the times I'd call her and she ( Read more... )

To the last day of Term 3! HOLY SHIT! What a tumultuous few weeks it has been, filled with great and not so great experiences. I'm told that these up and down days constitute a pretty normal teaching career. Well done to me, anyway ( Read more... )

Hahaha, oh my gosh. The gossip to which one is privy at the dining hall table! Hilarious! I have my usual group of boys with whom I sit - any range of my Year 8 students or some of the Year 12 boys who have befriended me. Today I sat with a trouble student of mine who is a bad boy but there's something endearing about him. I can get angry at him in ( Read more... )

I had such a hectic day today! I had five classes on and they also slugged me with two pastoral care classes and also a literacy class! Guh! Didn't stop all day but took my lunch to the make up time I set up at lunch for kids to do their oral presentations that didn't do it yesterday in class. I'm coming down hard on them because I've given them ( Read more... )

Another weekend down and this time I'm not really looking forward to it being another week at school. I went home to Brisbane for the weekend and it just made me really homesick. I had so much fun just being at home and in familiar surroundings, which incidentally had changed since I was last there! Leigh's Mum had redecorated her bathroom and we ( Read more... )

I was wondering why I hadn't written in almost a week and worked out that it was because I had a boyfriend again! Hahaha. Leigh arrived safely on Wednesday night and I had an absolutely fabulous time with him here until Sunday morning. On Wednesday night we went out to Hog's Breath and had steak and ate a super mega parfait of death! It was really ( Read more... )

I had a relatively good today, in fact I'm bordering on saying that it was great. A few supervisions (not 5 as I expected which was nice but still 4) and a few spares; all of the money but none of the stress of teaching MY OWN KIDS. That starts again tomorrow, but I've spent a bit of time planning the next topic for year 8's and we are doing ( Read more... )

This morning I was pushing snooze on my alarm and then got a bit weirded out because I thought I heard something moving in the windowsill above where my head rests when I'm in bed. Interesting, I thought, and checked behind the bed, in my shelf and also behind the curtain but alas! Nothing! I must have been dreaming it. Go back to sleep for a few ( Read more... )

So hard to believe that I made it through to the end of the end of the week! I was talking to Mum this morning and she said Well you've only got 40 years to go, and I said Yeah but with one week down! It just seems so insignificant in the grand scheme of things but my first week! Over ( Read more... )

I finally had a great class this morning and it has caused a serious shift in my attitude to taking this job here in Rocky. I know that it was a bit silly to think that I would command respect despite being a graduate teacher but it's clear that I need to reassess my own approach to Year 8 students. Just have to be patient. Make their lessons ( Read more... )