WE HAVE A HOUSE

HOORAY!!!
WE HAVE A HOUSE AT LAST.
MOVE IN WEEK ON FRIDAY SO EXCITED I CAN START TO BUY FURNITURE AND STUFF.
SAM

Groan

Have have to go and sign on today. I hate going to the job centre it is like a living hell. And I don't mean to offend anyone but you get some weird freaks in there.
All is weel at the moment. Last night we went to a pub quiz. After 4 year of uni, year of collage, 2 sixth form, 4 secondary school and 7 primary school our term (me and Vic) came...........wait of it.............wait for it...............wait for it............wait for it. LAST!!!!!!!
WE didn't even get the question. What colour is the Simpsons car right!!!!! How dense. We also have the Incas from Denmark. and Johos meeting on the front doorstep.
Sam x

Shopping

Hi.
I've been trying to start looking at get furniture of the house. I have discovered that Ebay if you are willing to pick up has some really good bargins.
I have started to pack already. I don't seen to have very much loads of clothes though. I might seem if I can flog what I don't want on Ebay. I also have loads of books which are not that great either.
Sam.
X

Yes

I think we have a house.
After loads of searching we have finally found something. It is like a dolls house. SMALL.
But there is only two of us.
It doesn't have anything with it. No cooker, fridge, bed, nothing. So we are on the scrounge. I'm wondering how much I can nick from home before Dad notices.
Sam x

So much to do.

I never realised that there is so much to sort out even before I have started to teach. Of course I realised that there was going to be planning and all that but there is so much more.
The guy who was teaching in there before me has left the classroom in a bit of a state. I have just started to tidy out my cupboard and unearthed loads of stuff that the school have thought they had lost and teachers have been looking for for ages.
Blue tack is like gold. Which thankfully the teacher I'm replacing seemed to have a blue tack fetish so I have hordes of the stuff. Maybe I should start selling it.
The staff are really nice and extremely helpful. I don't think I'm any help at all with the planning. Two lovely people came in and did all the backing for the display boards for me, which is a God send. I have also been told that OFSTED is very likely to arrive in Oct. GOD HELP ME!
I haven't started my summer holiday yet. I'm in three days this week and three next week. Plus I would really like to find a little part time job over summer.
I've just spend the last three hours grouping the pupils. I think most of the summer is going to be taken up with lesson plan and display boards and trying to figure out how to organise things.
Feeling a little bogged down by it all.
So much for me become a teacher because of all the holidays. ONLY JOKING!!

Harry Potter

While I'm on the subject of Harry Potter I also went to see the film Order of the Phoenix. It was quite good though as with all the rest of the film they missed a great deal of stuff out and the fight scene in the ministry of Magic was poorly done and over far too quickly. The actor who play Harry is better in this film some of the other he is a bit poor. Ron is also done bettr in this film. Previously film Ron is portrayed as Harry funny and slightly stupid sidekick (totally unlike the books) but he is on par with Harry now.

HARRY POTTER.

I forgot to mention I have finished reading Harry Potter The Deathly Hallows. It is book seven and the final Harry Potter book.

It isn't really one of my favourite. Though it was pleasing to read and did hold my interest. Loads of people dies in it and JK doesn't seem to bothered who she kills off so she is able to shook the reader this way. Rowling seems to tie up lots of loose ends from the other books extremely quickly as if she didn't know what else to do with them. For example Percy who ran out on his family and was interested in any of them for about four books suddenly returns hugs his parents and all is well.

Another thing I have against this book is that there is an awful all of swearing in it. Which is quite annoying for a primary school teacher who had it in her mind to read it to the kids as a class book.

I also didn't like the very last chapter. What was that about? I think JK was trying to finalise the whole of Harry's life so she won't ever have to write about him again. Though I did read somewhere she was intending to write a prequel of the lives of Harry's parents. I say let them RIP.

I did enjoy it though and the plot was well thought through. I hope she doesn't write any more. I think the world has now had enough of Harry Potter. Lets leave him to live with his family in peace.

WRONG!!!

"I LOVE MY HORSE."

Feeling out of my depth

Wow I have so much work to do.
I went in the school for the first time and was in a staff meeting. Nearly everything they talked about seemed to be in a different language. I hardly understood any of it. Why did they not mention this at uni? Feeling rather worried that I won't be able to cope with it all.

Have started planning what I'm going to teach them next term. The planning I seem to understand, plus I'm planning with two other people who are really nice and don't seem to mind answering my rather naive and probably stupid questions.

Meeting again tomorrow, Wednesday and Friday. I also at some point have to sort out my classroom.
Sam X

I HAVE A JOB.

At last I have finally found a job.
It is in a lovely little school. I am going to be teaching year 4/5. They are not my ideal year but I'm sure it will be find.
I'm having to go in during the holidays to sort out my classroom and to put displays up and sort folders and generally see how to organise things.
The staff seem lovely and I went yesterday to meet everyone and had cream teas with them all.
Sam X

Interviews

Hi.
At last I have got an interview. At the moment they seem to be like buses. As In the last week I have or are going to have two. I've done the first one already but didn't get the job, the feedback was quite good though. The next one is on Wednesday. Wish me luck and fingers crossed and all that.

Everyone has left me!

Everyone has gone away and left me.
Dad and Alice have gone off to Dorset for a week in their motor home. John has got a few days off so has swaned off the Yorkshire to go caving. Not one of them invited me to go with them. Don't they know me? I love going on holiday.
It is quite nice to know that I have got the whole house to myself for the week. I love being one my own. I have always wanted to live on my own just for a little while.
Sam X

Happy Birthday to me.

Hi.
It was my birthday on Friday. Had a lovely day. Had to work in the afternoon but in the evening I went to a scout fete with Col, John, Peter and Katie it had a disco so did some dancing. Got lots of cool prezzies including a pottery painting set, the digital photo frame with changes my photo every 10 seconds, a trip to the hair dressers which it what I really needed my hair is crazy at the moment, socks, BBC drama collection and cool cups and biscuit tin ready for when I move out. So lots of really lovely things.
Yesterday Col, Vic and I went to the pottery in Boston and painted pots. I painted a heart shaped cake plate pink with muffins on it. Col painted a condiments plate loads of crazy colours and dots. Vic did a trinket box and did shading for one colour to another. Then in the evening we went to a 25th wedding party and danced some more.
Have been playing with my presents this morning have painted a pot and put some more photos on the photo frame. Also set up my punch bowl.
Sam X

Weekend away

Hi.

Have just got back from a weekend away. I have a really nice time. There were six of us altogether. Dad and Alice in the camper, Col and Peter in the VW and John and I in the tent.

We didn't go to Longleat as it was really to far to go just for the weekend. I'm pleased we didn't because it was hardly a relaxing weekend. We must have walked for miles.

We got there Friday night and more or less went straight to the pub and played card most of the evening. On Saturday we caught the park and ride into York and when to the Castle Museam then had a wander around the town. In the evening we have a meal. On the Sunday we went to the railway museam. I have to say that a lot of train in a big shed isn't really my idea of a good time but as it was fathers day we went. It was ok. The royal trains are quite interesting and I have to say I'm a bit a of a royalist. As I have Monday off everyone put me and John headed back home. Then on the Monday we went to Castle Howard. This was my choice I have been moaning about it for ages. At the moment they are filming a film version of Brideshead revisited so there were loads of props and camera crew about. I didn't see any one famous. Emma Thompson was there filming as was Micheal Gambon.

All in all a good weekend. Roll on the next time we all go away. The Isle of Wright was mentioned in passing.

Sam X

Catching up

Sorry it has been so long since I have written anything.
Have been really busy.
Trying to sort out a campsite to go to in Yorkshire. It needs to be near York and have a pub which does food. You wouldn't think it would be so difficult. Going away this weekend with Dad and Colleen. I wanted to go to Longleat but Dad doesn't think the camper van will make it that far. I'm in the tent.

Getting loads of work at the moment. People can't get enough of me. Schools want me all over the place. I have got another day in a local school until the end of term which is nice. Have use had to insure my car so I could do with the extra money.

Anyway better go
Sam x

Lovely day again

Hi.
I've spent the entire of today outside reading. It has been heaven. Oh I also baked a cake.
Sam

Sunny at last

It is a lovely day here and what I'm I doing. Currently I'm on the computer typing, but I was busy ironing. Lots of ironing. I hate it. I hate most forms of tidying and cleaning but ironing is the worst.
Going to enjoy the sunshine in a bit with a good book.
Sam X

Shopping

Hi.
I've been to Lincoln today shopping. Have brought a new skirt which is bright green, not sure what colour I'm going to wear with it, and two tops. Feel much better now I have spend some money.
Sam

Raining

God I'm so bored. It is still raining.
Got paid so really want to go shopping and spend money. At the moment I have a thing about buying stuff for when I move out. But at the rate I'm going I will probably still be living with my Dad until I'm forty with a room stuff of useless stuff like, coffee jars and spatulas. Also trying to save for when I move out so defeating the object if I go and spend the day shopping for stuff I don't really need. Plus I went and brought two new dresses the other day.
Maybe the rain is good. I'm saving money, not driving so therefore saving petrol and I could use this time to make myself a better person, rather than play on the Internet all day or watch rubbish daytime telly. If I was still a student this would be a perfect day.
Sam X

Camping

Hi
Decided to go away to Yorkshire again this weekend. The weather had been so nice before but as soon as we set off on Friday it started to rain. Luckily it stopped Friday night and we put up the tent. Had to borrow Katies as mine is currently been used.
On Saturday we went to Sedburgh and then looked at some waterfalls. On we climbed from the bottom on boulders up to it. We then went to Appleby. We had seen some of the Gypsy wagons on the side of the road and I wondered it they were at Appleby but unfortunatly I was two weeks early for the horse fair.
On Sunday it rained so we stayed in the tent as long as we could. It dried up enough to pack up. First we went to Bolton Abbey but as they were charging £5:50 for car park we didn't stop. Further down we stopped at How Stean Gorge. With in really pretty. There are some caves there which John went in and a stream which John fell in and a cafe which I went in out of the rain. We then went to Brimham rocks which are very random and quite spectacular.
So despite the weather a good weekend.
Sam X

Catching up

Hi.
I hadn't realised that I haven't posted anything for two weeks. So this is a quick recap.
I have been very busy working. For the last month I have been in a lovely little school and have really enjoyed it. But that is over now thought I do have a day there tomorrow and in June. The requested me!!!
Next week is half term. I'm going away this next weekend not sure where or what in, as I have lent my tent to Col and Peter. I have a small rubbish tent but have also given Col and Peter all the tent pegs for it. Whoops.
Have just been hoeing Sugar beef to help Dad. We are now going to go to the golf range and hit a few balls.
See you soon.
Holly, Ben , Col and Peter all of you have a lovely holiday.
Katie nice to see you back at home.
Sam. X