It has been three weeks since I returned to Australia from my globetrotting ventures. I feel like I traded one whirlwind for another and I have spent the last three weeks starting out in my new career as a teacher. Although it's been quite a roller coaster (yes, there have been tears...) I am now enjoying one perk of my new job-the school holidays! The last three weeks have flown by, with each day dictated by the ringing of a bell with short moments of calm as I enjoy a cup of tea using one of my Twinings tea bags from London. It certainly has been challenging and life as a teacher is quite a contrast to life as a student! I am very glad of having these holidays to try to catch up with where life has taken me. Of course, I have a pile as high as Jack's Beanstalk of preparation and lesson planning to do as well as a room full of things that need to be sorted out and tidied up. Some BBC period dramas are also in order-I've already watched 'Persuasion', 'Emma' and 'Wives and Daughters'. It will be nice to have a break from the seating plans, marking and reporting, meetings, phone calls and chaos that the last few weeks have been!
I now have a good excuse to go stationery shopping though as I have a school desk that requires kitting out and my desk at home needs restocking too. It has been so nice to have a desk to call my own in the staffroom, although I think I need a secretary to help me keep things organised as there never seems to be enough space for all my papers and folders. There also seems to be some kind of creature living in my top drawer that has an appetite for pens....they are disappearing at an alarming rate!
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