Thoughts on the Week Past
The past week has been a bit wonky.Firstly, on Wednesday, Riccardo successfully installed our new electric shower. Ah, the bliss of showering! I think we all take that for granted until we can't do it for over a month. Baths are a pain at 6:30am. The tile situation mentioned previously is not as much of an issue as we thought; though still an issue. It is not being dealt with just now.
Thursday and Friday I attended my complementary placement for Uni. This is where trainees spend time observing, and sometimes teaching, in a second school to get more varied experience. It's supposed to be 20 days in length, but because I worked as an unqualified teacher last year, I only had to do two! My focus was English as a Second Language (because I didn't experience enough of that in Japan - for some reason this doesn't count) and I had to travel all the way to the far side of Coventry to do it. An hour each way! In any case, the people were nice and I think I got all my boxes ticked.
Friday night was great: we met up with Helen, Jo, Claire, Stuart and Andy for dinner at our favourite Japanese place in town, Mt. Fuji. So delicious, as usual. We then tried the local karaoke bar, but it was dead, so four of us headed back to our place for a night of song. Such fun!
Saturday and Sunday were filled with renovations and work. I had some marking and planning to accomplish, but more time was spent beginning to apply colour to our dining room. Riccardo and I are both really happy with the colours I chose (pictures to follow when it's done). The only problem is that we can't tape edges because the tape rips off the paint, and it's super difficult to do baseboards and such because of the damn backing paper that curls over the edge of the wall. Grrrr. In any case, it is reassuring to see the work beginning to come together and seem productive. There is still a l-o-n-g way to go; we're just hoping to finish it all before we leave for Italy at Easter.
I learned today that my family cat has died this week. Alley has been feeling his age for some time now, and like many manx's, was having problems with arthritis for the last year or two. This week he apparently had a stroke and my parents had to put him down. :( Lots of fond memories of that scruffball.
That's all for now. xx
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