Thursday 13th October

I was getting ready for work this morning when I heard my roommate, Analisa, leaving, as she closed the door the door handle fell off! I carried on getting ready and when it came for me to leave at 8.30am to meet Jodie and Milzie, I realised that I was locked in my apartment! I was trying for ages to get out and in the end I had to ring Jodie and get her to tell the school that I was going to be late. I was supposed to be at school at 9am as we had an open day where the parents come into school to observe the lessons until lunchtime at 12pm. I had to wait until 9.30am when the school handyman turned up at my apartment with Mavis from the office and Analisa’s keys to get me out. He put the handle back on the door and told me it was fixed (it wasn’t, he had just slotted it back on but the bolt that keeps the handle in place was missing) I didn’t have time to argue though as I needed to get to school and settled for Mavis calling the maintenance company to come and fix the door handle properly. Then on the way to the school, after I told Mavis I needed to get there quickly, we stopped at the market for Mavis to pick up a few things! Unbelievable. Then as I arrived at the school (it had been raining in the night but the sun was out now) there was a group of the schools cleaners on the playground HOOVERING up the puddles! Can you believe that? Water and electricity! Sometimes I just think where is the common sense in this country.

I arrived at the school and had to go in and do phonics with grade 1A with all of the parents sat at the back o the classroom which was a bit nerve racking, a lot of parents were taking photos and videoing the lesson as well. The lesson went really well and the children were all really well behaved so overall it was a success!

After lunch I had English with grade 2C where I have been trying to get them to write their own fable about an animal with a moral to the story (yesterday I had the principal observing my lesson so it has been a stressful few days). Today’s lesson was about finishing their stories, editing and illustrating their work and it was a nice easy lesson to end the day on!