This is Omar’s blog

There were so many ways to tie up your laces.

(Some of them are quite awesome.)

My name is Omar and I like this music. I always had this down as hard trance, to me hard house is less - well trancey.

If you don’t know, I’m not telling you and I DON’T recommend you Google it, ,not if you’re at work or anywhere. It’s not worth it.

Still, that’s what it reminded me of.

from > http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/oct/21/climatechange?picture=338680131

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http://www.copypastecharacter.com/

It’s not perfect but oh my f***. Finally.

Photobox (who I’ve used before and been very happy with) now allow you to print your Flickr photos - you have to do it through their website but still.

Finally.

It’s been too long, the fact that Flickr doesn’t offer the service to the U.K. verges on the ridiculous considering how long they’ve been around.

I am writing to you to tell you that, in a short while, you are going to be arrested for killing the Prime Minister. You didn’t do it, right? Wrong. Here at MI6, when we want to kill someone and say that you did it, you can be sure that we’ve made sure that you did.

I picked you for several reasons. Firstly…

http://www.365tomorrows.com/10/20/hi-there/

This was me last night. This week it’s really hit me, I’m just tired. Well not so much tired as just weary. It’s my first proper 6 1/2 weeks of teaching and I’m just looking forward to half-term.

I have no point of reference for other jobs, so this is just how I feel. I say other jobs and I mean other office based graduate type jobs. I worked in a hotel and could easily work 12 hours - we used to joke that it wasn’t a proper shift if you did less then 12 hours. Where I would be on my feet all day, wouldn’t stop and then I could turn around and do it again. So, this is just my take on teaching.

I suppose I have to say something now. I’ve said to Jenn in the past, it’s a job where you have to work 9-3 doing the ‘doing bit’ and then are expected to do all your paper work after that, in what is essentially your own time. Except, I find it really hard to. Picking yourself up and working in an empty classroom is taking some getting used to.

The children rock up at 8:50 and then you work through until they leave at 3. The thing about it is apart from ‘break’ (read time to prepare for the next lesson) and ‘lunch’ (read time to sort things for the afternoon, maybe mark some books) there’s just no respite. You’re there and focused the entire time, keeping track of 27 moving targets, because you have to be. Trying to make sure every child is working, that every child knows what they are doing, that the child who needs a push to get going gets it, that the child that needs extending gets it and that they don’t spend 10minutes waiting for a rubber. I think that’s the thing that makes you most tired, the being ‘on’ for such a long time. You can’t stop for 10minutes and have a sit down.

It’s hard, it really is. Still, I still love it. When a child comes up with a way of sorting that I couldn’t work out, or comes up with an idea that leaves you speechless, it’s just plain awesome. When you find the things that work, when you find the best way to get the best out of a particular child. Ain’t nothing like it.