Pirate day!

Yesterday was international talk like a pirate day (uk site here)!! Hurrah!! However... being that my week was so awful.. I completely forgot about it till I woke up this morning BOOO!! Shame really as it means a day where i can legitimately 'be' a pirate. Grr... Never mind! I shall make up for this by being a pirate all day today. I'd like to take this oportunity to state that i do not condone modern day piratical events. I have read about a few recently that have made me shake my head in a disaproving manner. I only condone dressing up like johnny Depp and getting drunk and sailing around in the sunshine!!

Piratical adventures today... i fully aim to wear my pirate beads, scarf and linen shirt and head out to have fun. Later i'm going to see ocean colour scene, so feel drinking will be done so i shall have some dark rum and toast pirates with a hearty Yarr. Does this sufice?! Hope so.

Yesterday was friday, and friday at school means one thing to me this year. 2 solid hours of PE!! :) and :( 2 hours of PE is hard work, and for this term, my post is gymnastics in the hall. ugh! The way we have planned it is that the 3 teachers in the year group station themselves in 3 different areas and each of the 3 classes move round the 3 areas every 40 minutes. the three activites till half term are gymnastics, netball, and cross contry running! I drew the short straw and got gynastics till half term. grr. never mind... i get first choice next time!! hahha

Ok so let me set the scene for gymnastics primary school style. We have an old wooden climbing frame style bars that wheel out from one wall, 3 ropes hanging from the ceiling, that pull out and lock on a pulley system (see... primary school pe is coming back to you with avengenceright!! ) 3 padded tables of varying height and an old wooden vault. I skillfully place these around the room. set the kids a challenge for each peice of equipment and let them have 10 mins per activity! mainly carnage reigns... but in amongst this carnage little star gymnasts present themselves. my main horror so far is that a good 20%of kids are too scared to climb above thier shoulder height, some children can't even climb onto the wooden vault with help, and only 7 children in the whole year group (76children) can climb up a rope, and only one of them is a girl!

What has happened to the kids of today?! Do they not climb trees anymore!?! it upsets me greatly. In fact one observation about who can climb the rope is that its generally the kids who are introuble in and out of school and tend to get incvolved in dodgy (ie illeagal) activities who are able to climb! make from this what you will!

After school us weary teacher converge for a sneaky beverage at a public house down the road, and this week was no exception. however this week wa comedy. Walked in :
ME: "Pint of Guinness please"
BAR LADY:"no draught guinness. only bottles"
ME: "Er...ok, yep that ok" While looking slightly confused as i'd had it the week before, "Oh and A rum and coke"(not for me)
BAR LADY: "We don't have any rum"
ME: "what?
BAR LADY: we don't do rum.
ME (after consultation with colleague): Double jack daniels and a splash of lemonade with ice
BAR LADY: We don't do ice
ME (again wanting to scream WHAT?!) : really... er ok no problem.
Drinks appear on bar, i pay and sit down with others. five minutes passes
BAR OWNER (a big bothered looking man): I'm afraid you'll have to leave. we have to close.

An there it was... no explanation, no time to finish drinks.... we had to leave, so i gathered up my guiness, which i poured back into the bottle and resealed, and left! madness!!! No one knew why.... maybe we had entered a parralell world that was about to collapse. who knows!!

Other news from yesterday: Last night i decided i wanted to watch Juno, I knew I'd like it, and so decided to buy it rather that rent or download it. OH MY GOD ITS GOOD!! Its easily now one of my favourite 3 fims ever! I got to the end and started watching it again. I'd like to share some quotes:
Leah: Yo Yo Yiggady Yo.
Juno MacGuff: I'm at suicide risk.
Leah: Juno?
Juno MacGuff: No, it's Morgan Freeman. Do you have any bones that need collecting?



Leah: It's probably just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
Juno MacGuff: No, this is not a food baby all right? I've taken like three pregnancy tests, and I'm forshizz up the spout.


Juno MacGuff: You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.


Ok Ok... will stop now. I laughed and cried the whole way through... I might even watch it again today!! tee hee!

So am off now to pirate myself up and re-aquaint myself with Ocean Colour Scene's backcatalogue. HOW EXCITING!!!

BYE!

Inti xx