Firstly can I start
by saying that i'm sorry this post is up late, and it isn't my fault.
The wifi decided to stop working when I got back (you'll find out
where from later on... get excited) and I literally spent an hour and
a half trying to connect to the wifi. It got to the point where I
nearly threw my laptop across the room so I decided to give up on my
laptop and I went downstairs to the staffroom where there are some
computers (from before I was born I swear) and it took me 20minutes
to log on to my school email. So it's safe to say technology wasn't
on my side last night, and most of this morning.....
And secondly can I apologise for the substantial lack of photos! I just didn't take any this week so I'm very sorry about how wordy this post is.. soz..
So anyway, back to
what happened this week!!
On tuesday I did a
terrifying thing. Forget the massive roller-coasters and trips across
London during rush hour, this was worse. I tried to decide what I
should study next year (can you hear the distant screams? That's me
thinking about the future)
I thought it'd be a
good idea because the amount of times I get asked what i'll be doing
when I leave England, and all I have to say is “uuuuuhhhh, I'm not
too sure yet... but that's ages away hahahaha”. And I have come to
the realisation that it isn't actually that far away and i'll need to
start enrolling for courses soon which is a terrifying thought! After
a good couple of hours I did make some progress in my decisions, but
I still haven't made any concrete decisions (basically because I
can't figure out what I'm meant to do..) so this isn't over yet!
After the stress
that looking at my future induced it was a good thing that my
workmates made me feel like a kid/an idiot that night. As usual we
played football on the front field, but they (being two guys in their
mid 20's) thought it would be funny to wear full on football kit. Not
because I didn't own any, and they didn't want me to be left out –
how considerate of them...- they lent me some knee high socks and a
football top. That along with my shorts and trainers made me look
pretty professional! Unfortunately it didn't do anything to my
football skills and I was still as rubbish as always, to the point
where I fell over trying to get the ball, but it made me feel better
when the other member of staff tripped over the ball (amateur).
Wednesday was quite
normal. I had forest school and spent the whole time making fairy
chairs and chatting to the other members of staff there about New
Zealand and our language differences (accidentally called cling film
'glad wrap' and they were like whhaaaaaat? Tell us everything else
that you call funny names, so I recited the now too memorable list of
gumboots, jandals, lollies, togs etc....)
That night I sat on
the girls landing platting the girls' hair and just chatting to them
(they told me that I'm like their older sister in a way and I thought
that was just too cute!)
Thursday was, just
for a change, quite normal.. however I came to the realisation that 5
yearolds have an attention span of about two mintues.. I have the
reception class once a week for cricket, and that half an hour is so
exhausting that I'm almost glad that's it for the week! This thursday
I spent the whole time taking one kid at a time to the loo, because
as soon as I came back with one kid, another one decided they needed
to go, and so it went on and on and on for half an hour..
That night, the
girls decided they didn'tactually want to go to sleep, so they kept
talking. And because the girls landing was completley full (only one
bed was empty) there were a lot of girls to tell to shut up...
By Friday I was
really tired because of thursday night's efforts, but thankfully the
day was quite a quiet one..
Nothing really
happened during the day, and in the eveining all I did was sit in the
pool (not literally in the pool, but in the pool building. Oh and i'm
now really good at putting on swimming caps, just thought i'd let you
know) but I might as well have got in the pool because the member of
staff I was supervising with (you need two staff members in the pool)
thought it'd be really fun to keep splashing me...
That night I found
everything hilarious because I was really tired. I spent most of the
night chatting to the girls, all about different things depending on
what year group they were. Year 5&6's wanted to know all about
earthquakes, the year 7's were talking about different countires and
where we all wanted to go (even though in the conversation we had
quite a few nationalities covered - english, spanish, french,
russian, japanese and of course the one kiwi)
And it will probably
come as no surprise to some of you that the year 8's conversation was
all about boys and celebrity crushes. It really did make me feel like
I was 13 again...
Even though the
weekend was meant to be my weekend off, I spent the whole time a
school with the kids.. let me explain myself before you think i've
gone insane
Saturday was sports
day, so I spent the whole day making sure the kids were in the right
places, and running the score sheets into the staffroom. It was
surprisingly exhausting even though I wasn't doing anything compared
to the kids! At the end of the day I had to play tug-of-war with one
hand.. (staff vs. year 8's so we thought we'd go easy on them... and
we lost..) and then the winning house was announced (Cranmore! The
yellow house) and the day was over!
But that night was
the summer party for parents and staff, so I got all dolled up (I
wore a skirt, anda pair of heels for the first time since christmas!)
and got into a taxt, with a drivier who had no idea where he was
going (apparently that's unacceptable here, but in Wellington it's
normal to have to give your driver directions!!).
I had such an
amazing night! The food we were served was incredible – such a nice
change to have fancy food after months of boarding school food!. I
spent the whole night chatting to parents of the kids, and the people
I work with (who all are hilarious when they're a little bit tipsy)
but don't tut at me, because even tho I kept being given drinks, I
didn't get drunk, and I hardly felt tipsy! I spent a good couple of
hours on the dance floor singing along to the band (one of the people
I work with's band. They were really good too!) and by 12.30am we
were the last ones there, singing into a mike that was turned off
(thank god).. by the time I got into bed I was exhausted so I went
straight to sleep!
Sunday was a really
good day. Partly because when I went down for lunch (I slept past
breakfast) I was the only one of those who'd gone out the night
before that wasn't feeling like death and I had a really nice roast
lunch while all the others could manage was a yorkshire pudding and
some gravy..
That day the sunday
activity was shopping in Bath, so I got a lift in and spent the
afternoon shopping in a city that I love more and more with every
visit. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I'm not sure what one yet (i'll
decide when I check my bank balance) it was a very sucessful day of
shopping and so I returned home happily carrying my purchases..
And so we're back to
Monday!
Now just like last
week I worked on my day off, but it was so worth it!
The year 4's went on
a trip to CADBURY WORLD and so of course I was stoaked when they
asked me to come. Even tho it was a nearly 6 hour round trip, it was
a really good day (because I now know to ALWAYS bring headphones on
trips, so in went the music and I slept most of the way!)
As you can imagine,
a tour of a chocolate factory was heavenly. I spent a bit too much
money in the gift shop, and learnt that they don't have chocolate
fish, or pinkys or pebbles or cherry ripes or anything like that
here!! One of the workers was most excited when he found out I was
from New Zealand, and asked me if I'd tried the vegemite chocolate
(thankfully I could say I hadn't).
As I spent most of
the time there drooling over all the chocolate, and restraining
myself from buying everything in the store, there isn't much else to
say about Cadbury World!
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| Sadly I couldn't wear my heeleys in the factory, partly because of the sign and partly because it isn't 2006 anymore!! |
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| I thought this was just too cute! |
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| Just for Moira! |
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| The guy who gave a talk had this hat that one of his workmates had given him. |
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| There is a heaven after all..... |
And so we're back
to, what is now Tuesday! I am sorry about the lateness of this post
but it was out of my control, and it has also conserned me just how
much I need wifi in my life! 4 hours without it and I don't know what
to do with myself!
So on that
stereotypically teenager sounding sentence, that's all from me!
So until next week
then...
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