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The Bus Challenge comes to an end this week with Jenn needing to get the bus all three days to win two cds. So, I really need the list please and thank you. Mostly because I’m a little curious about what is on it. (If you write it on your blog and link to this entry, it will appear in the comments).

Has it been sucessful? Dunno, Jenn will need to answer that. Though it’s always good to have some motivation to do something, anything isn’t it.

Also; this is now Wordpress 2.5! Good luck Rob… ;)

And I’m an alcoholic.

I mean, I shop at Marks and Spencers.

http://www.howies.co.uk/product.php/1189/84/

Yes. No. Maybe?

Just quickly, I will write about today later.

1. It’s fine when you know the photocopier, not so much when you don’t and they’ve run out of A4 paper.

2. It’s fine getting past the locked doors when the secretary is there, not so much when you arrive well before they do.

It’s BACK. The quotes are already awesome. Who wins? No one cares.

I am SO excited…

I ache from circuits yesterday. We focused on explosive power - lots of jumping, weight exercises and doing an exercise that involved lying down and getting up. It was horrible. Far harder then anything I’ve done so far. I mean the exercises aren’t really aerobic involving short sharp movements. It was just the fact that you don’t stop and I wanted to so much. Half way through I was thinking, this is enough. I felt a little sick, jogging round the outside and anything more then a snails pace was really hard work.

So, yes, it was awesome. Hindsight says it was. Got to stick at it.

I finally submitted my job application today and will wait and see how that turns out. I’m hopeful it will be successful though interviews sound scary. It is because at the moment, doing a job full time is so very different to what I’m doing at the moment. It is getting back into a different mindset I suppose. Of what they will be looking for from me, what I need to start thinking out.

I spoke to someone from one of the agencies I work for today; as it turns out she was doing supply in the same school as me, about some more permanent supply after Easter. We will see… It’s quite a scary thought. Again, we will see.

Also, today. I turned up, the secretary showed me to the class I thought I was teaching in. (There’s always that moment, when you say “I’m here to do supply in year 4″ and they look at you blankly and even though you’ve checked a hundred times you doubt yourself. You know that one?) Only the teacher was there and she said she didn’t need any supply. Right. OK. So, she went around. I took the register in one class - attendance registers are fine, dinner registers are always complicated because all schools use the the same folder but fill it in SO differently. Then I did numeracy in another class and then I supported the class teacher in literacy.

See, supporting the teacher is potentially tricky. You’re there as a teacher but are fitting in to a different role. I don’t mind really, it’s nice because you can sit back a little and concentrate on working with a smaller group of children. As well you can observe how other teachers teach, something that I don’t see a lot of now.

Mum’s flight is delayed, so we are going to leave at about 7ish to pick her up from Heathrow. So I am going to have a nap now.

Things that will make me not watch your channel:

1. Squashing up the film at the pivotal moment at the end and have someone talk over it. That’s just bad. Little brother and I both looked at each other, were both thinking are they really doing that.
2. See 1. It’s IMPORTANT.