Back to English!

Hadn't realised I was writing in Hindi (previous post) till I looked up (haven't mastered touch typing yet) but when I did it looked so cool I thought I'd leave it as a post.

Anyway the net disappeared for an entire week! At such a wrong time too, so much has been going on since that I don't know where to start!

Let’s see my last post was me looking forward to being back at school. Wow seems so long ago. All the motivation and enlightenment i had felt then quickly disappeared when I got to school. Not because of the class but because of the group I'm with. They all wanted to go home and not bother with it and the effect rubbed of on me.

I know I shouldn't let people's bad vibes so to speak get to me but it really did and after some disagreements, last min changes and a tense atmosphere I'm now planning and delivering a pre-visit talk on my own.

I don't mind to much because I've fallen in love with the class. I really don't know how I'm supposed to decide which age range I want to specialise in, whenever I step in to a classroom be it a nursery, a year 1 class or year 5 I end up loving it so much so that I know that That’s the age I want to teach.....until I go in to another classroom.

Anyway back to the class there was only 4 girls in a class of 26!! Some of the kids were of that day. I'm guessing they were girls - not because girls are skivers but because there was hardly any! Thankfully my knowledge of Arsenal that I had learnt from the last placement enabled me to break the ice with them beautifully and we had loads to talk about.

The class was doing an art project on 'The Joy of Life'. They drew things which made them happy, some drew things just because they were easy to draw such as flowers. Never seen so many boys draw flowers! These were then cut and stuck on to cardboard which was then hung from a cardboard stage. We didn't see it through to finishing point but if some are on display I will take pics. It’s an idea I shall be using hopefully.

This post is getting long and very random. I wanted to talk about how my motivation fell from such a great height in detail, about the class in detail and about the work they were doing in detail but it all seems so long ago and I want to write about some other things.

I'll end this now before it gets too long!