Hey, team, sorry I haven't posted. I have to admit, I've been really miserable, with those damn stitches in my tongue. I'll be fine for a while and then suddenly it's like the painkillers suddenly wore off and I can't do a thing. Maybe it's teaching all day, and then it hits me when I get home. Or when the class is suddenly quietly working and my stupid tongue is stilled! Whatever, I haven't felt like doing anything more than the minimum.
Which isn't to say we've been idle. Never quite get that! Last night, after Christy's clarinet lesson we (the boys came too) whizzed over to the Cathedral to see my college and the St Pat's boys' college having a music evening. That went well, but my boys were tired by the time we got home (we stopped for hot chocolate at the BP station!). And as long as I don't have to talk in the evenings, I'm fine! And the girls were pleased to see me there. I could see some of them eyeing up Christy, as The Daughter, wearing her school uniform of the sister school! I was having a joke with my children at the start of the concert, and one of my Year 12 girls leaned back and whispered to me, 'Can you be my Mum?'
The Principal welcomed me formally to the school today at Assembly and hinted that it'd be nice if I stayed! OMG! I told her afterwards that it was blackmail. Still, I'm getting deeply involved in the life of the school, and it's okay so far...
I have a biggish Year 11 class (I have a really small one too - 13 girls) - the big class has 27, and many of them are the school trouble makers. They weren't enjoying the topic we were doing so I finally wrapped it up and the other day I gave them some fun activities for a whole lesson - they lapped it up, and are eating out of my hand at the moment. I did a great revision of the Reformation today, for our test tomorrow, so I hope I can keep that postive relationship going. I think it's so hard to get your fifteen year old head around Religious Education when you are embarking on national achievement subjects elsewhere in the school.
All my other classes are pretty good, so I can't complain just now... heh... there's always a honeymoon period in a new school. Ask me again in six months LOL!
And I get my stitches out tomorrow afternoon, so I'm really hoping that means I can recover! And be more chatty to you all. And Steve leaves for France in the morning. I'm a little upset about that, for no apparent reason. I guess I just don't feel so good. Still, Queen's Birthday weekend coming up, so Monday is a holiday. Although Asher has soccer...
As for writing, I haven't been able to write a word. Maybe this weekend...
Which isn't to say we've been idle. Never quite get that! Last night, after Christy's clarinet lesson we (the boys came too) whizzed over to the Cathedral to see my college and the St Pat's boys' college having a music evening. That went well, but my boys were tired by the time we got home (we stopped for hot chocolate at the BP station!). And as long as I don't have to talk in the evenings, I'm fine! And the girls were pleased to see me there. I could see some of them eyeing up Christy, as The Daughter, wearing her school uniform of the sister school! I was having a joke with my children at the start of the concert, and one of my Year 12 girls leaned back and whispered to me, 'Can you be my Mum?'
The Principal welcomed me formally to the school today at Assembly and hinted that it'd be nice if I stayed! OMG! I told her afterwards that it was blackmail. Still, I'm getting deeply involved in the life of the school, and it's okay so far...
I have a biggish Year 11 class (I have a really small one too - 13 girls) - the big class has 27, and many of them are the school trouble makers. They weren't enjoying the topic we were doing so I finally wrapped it up and the other day I gave them some fun activities for a whole lesson - they lapped it up, and are eating out of my hand at the moment. I did a great revision of the Reformation today, for our test tomorrow, so I hope I can keep that postive relationship going. I think it's so hard to get your fifteen year old head around Religious Education when you are embarking on national achievement subjects elsewhere in the school.
All my other classes are pretty good, so I can't complain just now... heh... there's always a honeymoon period in a new school. Ask me again in six months LOL!
And I get my stitches out tomorrow afternoon, so I'm really hoping that means I can recover! And be more chatty to you all. And Steve leaves for France in the morning. I'm a little upset about that, for no apparent reason. I guess I just don't feel so good. Still, Queen's Birthday weekend coming up, so Monday is a holiday. Although Asher has soccer...
As for writing, I haven't been able to write a word. Maybe this weekend...
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I think it's so hard to get your fifteen year old head around Religious Education when you are embarking on national achievement subjects elsewhere in the school
I bet it is. Everyone's trying to get you to focus on different things, and it's hard to tel which is most important. Especially at fifteen!
Good to hear that for the most part your classes are going well!
-Good to hear that for the most part your classes are going well!
Oh, it's really great. I actually love it! I am quite amused at myself but I am really having a good time at the moment!
It certainly sounds as though you're settling well into school life, it's nice to be wanted isn't it? even if it is exhausting!!!
one of my Year 12 girls leaned back and whispered to me, 'Can you be my Mum?' - Were you looking for extra children??
-it's nice to be wanted isn't it? even if it is exhausting!!!
It sure is nice to be wanted. I think there was a lot of rejection the last year or so, and this is such a nice feeling, to be enjoyed *g* - rather like being here on LJ with my friends *g* - it's a celebration every day.
As for the exhausting side of things, it's like, well, too bad, life is for living, I just have to get on and enjoy it however I can! So this is manageable at the moment, and fun, and the money helps *g* so I'm giving it my best shot.
-'Can you be my Mum?' - Were you looking for extra children??
Absolutely not! But I think she wished she could have fun with her own family like we were. I don't think any of her family were there to see her.
I had a great day at school today, and the stitches came out without a twinge! So things are okay. ALthough I apparently now have a hole where there was a lump before *g* he said he'll see me again in a month!
Nice to hear from you. I just watched WaT *g*
We talked about your stitches over lunch and wished you well. Will post tomorrow.
Why doesn't UK have a holiday for the queen's birthday?
OMG! Um, well, thank you *g*
-Why doesn't UK have a holiday for the queen's birthday?
Yeah, that's really odd. I mean, you guys are at least supposed to kind of like her...
A holiday to honour the queen? Certainly not - get working and pay taxes to keep the royal family in the style to which they've become accustomed!
Yeah, there are jokes here about whingeing poms *g*
But it seems to me like parts of Germany does well out of holidays, they get things like Pentecost off - well, it seemed that way when I was friends with Urte. Here we get ANZAC day and NZ day - IF they fall on a weekday, Queen's Birthday and Labour Day on set Mondays, and Easter and Christmas. I think that's it.
-A holiday to honour the queen? Certainly not - get working and pay taxes to keep the royal family in the style to which they've become accustomed!
Well, Steve was thrown in the cells one night in Scotland for singing anti-royalist songs. I suspect he was rolling drunk as well *g* He still has one of the banned Paul McCartney 45s of Give Ireland Back to the Irish!
I expect they put Steve in the cells for his own protection ...!