Rainy days often cause navel gazing and life contemplation and today has been such a day. Against the backdrop of the second VERY rainy day in a week, I have been thinking about things that have been significant over the past week.

Things that have vexed me over the last week: (Very unproductive to my general mental state i realise)

- Have realised that a small classroom at school means it gets smelly very quickly, even with the windows open.
- Why are my cats continuing to tip cat litter all over the floor during the night?
- I have a new girl in my class that I shall give the pseudonym pressurecooker. This is due to the fact i think she may be someone who if i can work out the right triggers will explode in quite impressive fashion. Whilst this makes my day to day teaching a nerve wracking experience, it does however present me with a 'scab' style scenario. I know I shouldn't pick at it, but dear god i want to make this girl explode-just to see what happens. So far, have discovered tests make her agitated, and she contorts her body into amazing positions in order to use anything but the table to lean on. Also when she has a disagreement with anyone, she gets very 'silent' cross and goes purple and veins appear! See... you want to make her explode now don't you!!

Things i have enjoyed this week:

- Realising that year six are no where near as scary as i thought, and that year 3's are so cute that i can't believe we even have to teach them!!
- Offereing to work a day for free can be good fun. I realised this when working at Endemic (go to www.endemicskatestore.com ) on saturday. It ended up being a bit like a grown up version of having a dressing up box! (sorry Lousia and Andy!) Would be quite happy to do it again... especially as i got to see 'proper chavs' ask for things that skate stores would never have, just cos they thought the store was cool! Oh and... When a guy asked if they sold Buffs... I knew what they were!!! YESSSS
- Cooking! oh my god it feels good to be able to cook my own food! I'm loving creating pasta dishes, and deciding what to eat each night. I particularly enjoyed cooking a BOlivian style meal of trout with vegetable quinoa the other night as it reminded me of being back in South America.
-The Paralympics. Having missed nearly all of the Olympics, its great to watch the Paralympics. So far I'm loving that the GB team repeatedly smash cycling WR, and have overtaken the Olympic GB team for number of Golds won. I also love watching the swimming and am constantly amazed at how well we do. I'm getting well into it, as it is on while i'm cooking my dinner every night. Today I cheered so loud for a Eleanor Simmonds in the womens 100 free, that i had a coughing fit and missed her win gold. I then had a mini cry at the emotion of it all, as she was only 13 and half the height of her competators. When she was interviewed she couldn;t even get her words out. She was crying so much she couldn;t even make sense! LOVE HER!
-REalising that i do actually have a brain! I watched University challenge last night, and managed to answer 6 starter questions the teams couldn;t even answer... proudest of which being "if you divide 666 by the sum of its digits you arrive at a prime number. What is that prime number?". I answered this in about 2 seconds! I even amazed myself! I shall pose this question to my top maths set tmrw. mwa hahaha!
- Loving Batman on an Imax screen. Went to bradfor wi brother and sister in law on saturday night to watch batman. Am totally in awe of heath ledger's performance. I truly am lost for words at his acting ability, and i find it really sad that that is the last film i will see him in. Such a loss.

Random facts:

Did you know Serpentine (what the inca crosses on necklaces are made from) are actually a form of asbestos!

Beelzebub means 'Lord of the Flies'!

Anyhoo... I now must stop writing, as i have IEP's to write and literacy to prepare for tmrw. oh and numeracy, and timetables to type up for support staff. Jeez... and its 8pm already! ugh.

BYE!!

Inti