June 21, 2010

  • Happy Campers

    That has to be THE most frustrating thing! I just wrote a long long blog all about the past week and the weekend, and the computer crashed so I lost it. Can I be bothered to write it all out again? No. Grrrr.

    A summary of the main points:

    1) Camp is fun but exhausting!! My class still run a bit riot but are generally good, and I am learning ways to make them settle down. I'm quite enjoying the lessons now. I reckon the next 4 days are going to go very quickly!

    2) I can't believe that this time next week we will have said goodbye to all these kids, and the teaching team (three out of the 5 I'm currently working with aren't staying for the second camp). It's going to be a smaller group next week so there are only going to be two teachers. The other one is flying out just for this one, but she did it last year. So it'll be 2 female teachers instead of me being the only girl!!

    3) Even sports was great fun in the end! Rounders went much better the second day. On Friday and today I was in charge of "Silly Olympics" which was basically school sports day stuff... egg and spoon, sack race, wheelbarrow, back to back, skipping etc. It was fun!!We also did an amazing spelling race competition today. The kids got SO competitive! Who knew spelling could be so much fun!!

    4) The weather has been TERRIBLE. I've never seen so much rain. They say it rains in England.... well this was something else! Not quite the summer we were expecting yet! Better that way than too hot though, although it was a shame last week that we couldn't get the kids out at playtime and in the afternoon, so they were a bit cooped up.  But I am definitely glad it's cooled down from the 30/35 degrees we had a week or so ago! Happy medium though....

    5) I just realised I've broken my sunglasses which is VERY annoying. They were in the bottom of my bag and one of the arms has broken off. I hope I can superglue it back on (I know where the superglue is kept in the house I'm staying in because Niccolo' got it out at the weekend....). Otherwise I'll have to get some new ones, eek! I HATE choosing sunglasses!!

    6) On Saturday night I was invited to dinner at old friends' house. A family who I knew 3 years ago when I did Erasmus here. They've got three children, all much bigger now (not surprisingly, after 3 years!). We played all the same games again though and it was fun!! We also played the card game that we used to call Slam! which I used to absolutely love!! I really wish I'd got my playing cards with me here now so that I could rope someone else in to playing it!!!

    7) On Sunday Will (another teacher) and I went for lunch out in Trento and then Dave (the other teacher) joined us and we went to a bar to watch Italy v.New Zealand. I felt my loyalties were a bit divided on that game... it may seem silly but seeing the Union Jack in the corner of the NZ flag made me feel all patriotic! Also the Italians were being SO melodramatic and the ref seemed to be quite biased towards Italy too, so I feel NZ were robbed! It was quite exciting when they scored the first goal!!

    8) On Sunday evening the family had some guests over for dinner. I was able to join them which was nice. My Italian hasn't been having a very good week recently, but it seemed to have picked itself up last night and I was able to chat. After dinner the kids put on loads of plays for the audience of parents and company (me) and I was roped in to be the narrator for the last one... reading an Italian script! Scary but funny!! Hehe

    Right, can't remember what else I'd put, but I'd better submit this before it deletes it again!!!