Resolutions

Well, can't say I'm doing too well with my new years resolutions so far! One of them was to try and be on time...yesterday I was 10 minutes late for 2 out of my 3 lectures...I've never been that late for a lecture ever! (on the first day of the semester too, not a good start!) So I seem to be getting worse not better! Haven't played Ben at squash or pool yet so can't judge that one, I've done pretty well with the films though! I've watched quite a few in the last few weeks, the shawshank redemption, anchorman, dodgeball, team america, wedding crashers, to name but a few, can't remember them all! Oh and a night at the roxbury, which has the best insult ever in it - "you're a jungle theme"!! classic! you kind of have to watch it to understand it though...not that it really makes sense!

Can't be bothererd to think of a title!

Woo I finished my exams today! All two of them!! I feel guilty being happy cos I've finished when my friends have had 4 or 6 or 7 exams!! I guess to them I can't appreciate the true greatness of exams being over! But I'm still happy, and now I'm starting to ramble...it's the wine talking...and to be fair I did hardly any revision so it's not like I can even be happy that I no longer have to spend all my days in the library revising, I think the most revision I've done in day in the last couple of weeks is about 4 hours, I've been such a slacker! But my exams were fine! :) Well I think anyway, obviously I could've done really badly but I feel like they went ok, for saying how badly prepared I felt beforehand anyway! I thought I was going to be so screwed in my exam today, we had to answer two questions out of 6, I knew 2 topics so was really relying on easy questions on them coming up! Thankfully they did so it was ok, I was so happy when I saw the questions! In the summer I will definitely start my revision earlier and be more organised, especially since I will have 11 exams!!! I'm going to die, I'll never cope with that many! I was struggling with two this week! Thinking about it, I must have had that many gcse exams, don't know how I ever managed then!
I am currently learning to airdrum! (if that's even a word!) it's well fun! And I'm getting the hang of it now! And I have to find something to amuse myself with since I've been abandoned by Ben who has gone off to join his flatmates while I'm left in his room with only the computer and music and wine and chocolate and guitar and air drums for company!!! So actually it's not that bad, but still, it's fun to complain!

Friday

Well, the week is over, and in a strange I'm giong to miss school! I feel settled in there now! There are some things I won't miss, such as getting up early, being mistaken for a pupil (as I was today by some kids walking behind me in the corridor!!! They don't even have 6th form there so that means at the oldest they thought I was 16! :S although to be fair they did realise I was a "teacher" when I turned round so it's not all bad!), and trying to make kids work who just sit there and go "I'm not doing it, I hate french, it's boring, i'm never going to use it" and refuse to do anything! I'm sure I was going to write more but I'm falling asleep now...oh yeah, I'm addicted to coffee and sudoku!!! Argh!

Teaching day four

Only one day left to go as being a teacher! :( for this week anyway! I've had a great time (apart from being ill and spending an afternoon asleep in the staffroom!), teaching is fun!! I had to take part of a german lesson the yesterday, cos the teacher doesn't speak any german!! How stupid is that, you can't teach something you don't know!!! It was only a year 7 class so she knew basic stuff but was rubbish at pronunciation and I had to tell her the word for wednesday! Today I had to do a presentation about different regions in France (got to use the interactive whiteboard!!) It was a year 9 class who are usually really noisy and disruptive but they actually sat quietly and were interested in it and could answer all the quiz questions afterwards to prove they actually had been paying attention!! So I was pretty pleased! And I think they will forever remember that you find marmots in the alps after one boy renamed them 'marmite eating marmots'(!?!)
In other news, I now drink coffee!!! I've finally trained myself, not sure if that's a good thing or not but at least I have a way of waking myself up now! (which I've had to do several times this week!)

Penguin

I finally got a penguin! Unfortunately not a real one but this will have to do until then! And she is very soft and cute and doesn't have to be fed out of my mouth with food I have already eaten so I guess that's always an advantage!

Teaching!

After getting up at the crazy hour of 5am (it's dark and cold at that time!!), leaving the house at 6 and getting the train at 7, I finally arrived in accrington for the first day of my paid work experience teaching kind of thing (don't really know what to call it but that kind of thing! basically I get paid to go into a school for a week and see if I like the idea of teaching!) It has been a great day, very interesting and I've learnt a lot about how not to teach! (as well as how to!) I'm working with one of the french teachers, who is neither french nor english, I have no idea where she's from but she pronounces all her w's as v's (and visit as 'wisit'!) and has the weirdist french accent ever! I had to stop myself from correcting her loads of times, these poor kids are gonna end up speaking french so badly! She doesn't seem to be able to handle the classes at all and doesn't make it in any way fun so no wonder I heard loads of the kids saying "I hate french, why can't we just say it in english?!" I really want to give her ideas of how to make it more interesting for them, but can't really! On the plus side she does give people chocolate if they're good! After school we had to stay for a staff meeting to see what other things teachers have to do, it was the most boring thing ever!!! I very nearly fell asleep, the only interesting bit was when they played a clip of little britain! But other than that it was just loads of ramble about classrooms looking nice, awards for the best looking classroom, marking schemes, review days, uniform and I can't remember what else!
It shall certainly be a very interesting week, and hopefully lots of fun! I met cool people who are also there from uni doing the same scheme, and I have lifts in for the rest of the week so don't have to get up crazily early to catch the train! yay!

Snow picture!

I took this near my house the other day, it was so pretty!

January 1st

Happy new year!!! wow it's 2006, that's strange! I remember when it was 1996, doesn't seem 10 years ago! Ooh that was when my sister was just born and I was a wee little girl of 9 years old...anyway, I'll stop being nostalgic now...
I don't normally bother making new years resolutions cos I know I probably won't end up keeping them, but for some reason I've got loads this year! I'm not sure if I should tell people or not, cos then at least if I don't keep them no-one will know! But I guess they're only really for me anyway (apart from the ones that affect other people) so it doesn't really matter...sorry I'm starting to do my rambling email thing now (a talent I learnt from helen) although since this isn't an email it's probably more a rambling blog...right, now I really am making no sense at all, this is what you get when you try type this late at night after having only about 4 hours sleep last night (sleeping on a living room floor where 7 other people are sleeping too isn't the best combination for getting lots of sleep!)
ANYWAY...back to the point (if there even is one) oh dear people are going to start to think I'm drunk or something, but I haven't drunk a drop of alchohol in ages, honestly! (well a few days anyway!)
But yeah, back to the resolutions, I will probably have forgotten them all by the end of the first week but nevermind, I can try!

no. 1: I will try and stop being late all the time and keep people waiting for ages (literally hours sometimes, sorry Sarah!!) Also maybe this will help me miss less buses, trains, planes etc!
no. 2: I want to better my film education! (which I know is pretty rubbish!) I hate feeling really thick when people talk about films that everyone else in the world has seen apart from me!
no. 3: I want to beat Ben at squash!! (this one may be slightly difficult considering the scores from when we last played, but I like a challenge! I guess I would settle for beating him at pool if I can't manage squash, I probably have a better chance with that!)

Hmm I did have more than this but I can't remember them! oops! oh well, it's late and I'm tired, I'm sure they'll come back to me!
Was gonna say be less stupid in general but I'm small so can't help that! (it's been scientifically proven that short people are stupid apparently! It makes a good excuse for doing silly things!)

Oh dear it's now gone past midnight so it's january 2nd and my title isn't true, nevermind!!