Firstly, I apologise to all those who are reading my blog often enough to notice that I haven't updated it in a while. I've been incredibly busy recently. In fact, even now I should be marking a stack of grade 6 "Adaptations" Science quizzes. Let me explain why I'm so busy. I am a grade 4 homeroom teacher. This means I teach them 5 lessons a day: Maths, Science, Reading, Grammar and Spelling. I also teach grade 6 Science four times a week. All these lessons t...

No hay gas (we've run out of gas.) We were boiling the kettle on Sunday for tea and the hob just went out! This was a huge disaster on Sunday as we'd planned to make Chilli con Carne and were very excited about it. When I say very excited, I mean it. We love food. I don't know why my love for food has grown so much from when I left England, and in England I already had a healthy love for food. Here however food takes up most of my thoughts. And showers, but we'...

Over the past three weeks I have become a ruthless killer. I track down my victims like a detective, watching them from afar, thinking through where they might hide from me, what they might do next and how best to sneak up on them. I usually lay bait. Sometimes I use a leg, sometimes an arm, just as long as it is something with enough exposed flesh on it to attract sufficient attention from my victim. I wait, poised and still, for the victim to notice the bai...

Firstly, I got into Southampton University to study Oceanography!!! Well done to everyone who made it into your chosen universities! And if you didn't, well, if this experience has shown me anything so far, it's that there is MUCH more to life than A Level grades and university places. Keep trying if you want, but re-evaluate if it's worth it. Why not give starting a job a go? Earn some money and go travelling (maybe even to Honduras?) You'll probably be laugh...

I had my first classes today. They're not really classes, more like getting to know you times. I had 16 in my class today, but Vanessa says that lots of kids don't come to school for the first month or so. My classroom is large, blue and mostly bare when I arrived, but having spent the last week or so planning and decorating it now looks quite nice! This photo is from the weekend, the blank boards are now full of pretty pictures and an extra fun game called "Ve...