I'm not very good at this...

Well as expected I have not been keeping up with my blogging - for some unknown reason a bizarre feeling has come over me. Recently I have been thinking that random strangers on the internet might not want to actually hear my thoughts & humble opinions meaning I have not been keeping this blog up to date. Then I realised no one but my friends probably read this anyway so I figured why be so shy? I'm not normally.

So a brand new year & hopefully good new things to boot! I have quit both my jobs & am currently doing my PGCE in the vague hope of becoming a teacher. I hear you cry "Why?!" & "Don't do it!" But alas dear readers I must. I have come to realise that whilst I loved my one job it didn't pay the bills & was sadly not going to get me anywhere. I could no longer sell soap, play with bubbles & glitter hoping that I would some how get enought money to afford postgrad. So I had to get a job.

Well... Sorta... This PGCE gig is unpaid (although I do get a nice student loan) & ALOT of bloody work but it is s'prisingly rather good fun! I had alot of doubts about the whole thing truth be told as I had no idea what to expect. One thing is certain - I FUCKING HATE PAPERWORK! I have never seen so much of the bloody stuff! Although I am assured that when I'm actually teaching there is slightly less of the stuff. Emphasis on slightly.

Being in the classroom is a good wheeze most of the time. Sure, I'm using pretty much nothing from my degree but I am enjoying interacting with young people. Something I was certain I would find hard.  Some of the little dears are unplesant but eh, I've had a job in the service industry since I was 14 which it would seem has made me rather resilient.

The only downside to this teaching malarky is possibly having to move. I love dear sweet Exeter but evidentally jobs for my specialism do not exist in Devon. If only I had done something more useful, like maths... Hmm... Maybe not.

Well sweet readers I draw to a close on my first blog post of 2013. Here's hoping I keep it up this year!



Allow me to be sombre for a moment...

To the dearly departed Francis DaCruz & Esther Johnson who left this world in 2012, you are both missed by those you left behind. And to young Max Rickard whom I never met but left us two nights ago. If there is such a thing as an afterlife may your souls find peace until you can be reunited with those who love you.