So.. yeah. Life in Canterbury at the moment is really pretty good. I am beginning to suffer what feels like the beginning of full blown exhaustion from the routine, and going out last night and failing to end up in my bed at the end of the evening hasn’t helped in this respect. Must have an early night tonight to make up for it.

It is a strange coincidence in my life that I have noticed that I always recieve important news at times when I am least emotionally able to deal with it via means not ideal for its communication. Such as opening facebook to see in my news stream a status update from my ex-girlfriend informing the world that she is 13 weeks pregnant. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled for her as I know that it is pretty much exactly what she wanted and the main reason we split up was because I couldn’t support that plan at the time. But it’s still a bit of a shock to hear and since I am so tired at the moment it rather dragged up a lot of feelings I hoped I had banished for good.*

So I am feeling a little down at the moment. I know that a good night’s sleep will fix most of it but I do not anticipate one of those as the people who made my matress appear to have forgotten to put the padding in that stops one falling down between the springs (and the bed has one of those really irritating metal bar bottoms on it which are guaranteed to leave me with bruising across my feet).

Looking forward to this weekend - will be going to parents’ house and taking a couple of the teach first guys with me. Will be the first chance I’ve had in a while to kick back and relax.

Anyway - I have to go now and have a beer and a game of risk.

*I am not going to go into detail here - many of you will have heard most of the story already.

*Warning* This is an exceptionally geeky joke which I got told last night by a maths teacher…

What is the integral of 1/(cabin) with respect to cabin?

Answer:

Beach Hut

(log cabin + C)

So… yeah. As you will undoubtedly notice this is the first post for a while. This is mainly because this is the first five minutes I’ve had to myself in nearly two weeks.

I have to say that I’m really up for it now. We had a really extreme week last week, starting about 8.15 in the morning and working through till about 9 most evenings, followed by the pub. Is great hanging out in an environment where I am constantly challenged to think and evaluate and I can use more than 10% of my brain.

This week I have finally been placed at a school and was inducted today. It looks like a fantastic school and has a great theatre so I imagine I will get involved with that in due course. It is also a new build school so the science facilities are great. I even get my very own classroom
Next week I have to actually teach two lessons - one I will be given a lesson plan to work from but the other I have to plan from the scheme of work. This will be an interesting exercise as we haven’t actually covered these in our workshops thus far so I will be doing it mostly blind.

Then it’s off down to Canterbury for three weeks to finish up the course before taking a break in August ready to start for real.

I also have to try and catch up with as many people as poss over August so let me know what your plans are and we’ll try and arrange something