Well recently i've been chilling a little too much, and now need to do a hell of a lot of lesson plans in the five days i've got left til i start el proper teaching! Freaky. Scary. I'm a scared freak right now ( Read more... )

I have decided to use the ebay thing to sell my childhood collection of Beatrix Potter porcelain statues, which should in theory MAKE me money rather than losing it. However, whilst we are on the losing theme, this is what i have so far purchased ( Read more... )

I have sadly recently been introduced to Ebay, which i fear may well become my new Amazon, and the arch-enemy of my bank account. So apart from hourly checking up on my bids (where i am beginning to realise how many bastards wait until the last minute to outbid you so when you think you've got the item you actually haven't at all and i am ( Read more... )

We have a new house! It's a ground floor flat, with a kitchen (without an oven - oops, i forgot to check this when i looked round before, but nevermind we're buying a little tabletop one), a spacious living and dining room, a bathroom with bath AND shower and room to turn round in (unlike this year), and two double bedrooms, one of which will be ( Read more... )

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored of my dissertation. If i ever even THINK of doing a masters in education again (which would involve much more of the same stuff i'm doing now) just SHOOT ME! Never will i succomb again. Anyhow, am now on section 11 of 16. In real terms, this means i've done 17 pages already, ( Read more... )

Guess what? I got a job today!!!! Yey!!! It's at a lovely school where the kids are actually polite to you, and it's only about 25minutes drive away - perfecto. One of the other candidates was my old RE teacher from school who was already working there and had applied to stay on in september, so that was weird. Still, i'm just relieved that the ( Read more... )

Back from Rome. A little bit sunburnt but not too much. Avoided the mourning catholics by leaving the beautiful city the day after the pope died. Wonderful time had by all. Didn't even mind the mopping too much after the apartment flooded. Missing my own paulo at the moment. Home alone. It's not the same, not the same at all. Still, all will be ( Read more... )

Lindsay, paul said you wanted to email me about pgce stuff. Just wanted to say feel free to do so. I don't have your email address so thought i'd write this on here in case you happen to read it ( Read more... )

Sooo...i've been told to write again, so here goes. I'm still busy teachiing - hello to the trainee teacher who replied to my last entry from abroad - and at the moment i'm applying for two jobs, one at impington and one at ely. I would really like to go to the one at impington cos they have lots of good things, like teaching the International ( Read more... )