Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Day Fourteen: Sunday Review

Prompt for day 14: Blog. Tell us about your week. What was your favorite blog entry of the week, and most importantly, why?

The end of the second week of my first 30DBC! Wow! I think I said last week that I was impressed that I’d completed a whole week. Thus, I’m doubly impressed. Because of this, I’m really concerned that I might let myself down on the Wednesday and Thursday coming up. Well, Wednesday should be fine. But on Thursday, I’m going to be out from 6am till midnight then working at 6am on Friday too. I’ll be really upset if I miss a day/have to be a day late. So, I’ll be setting myself a challenge to find a few minutes to get something down! *hopes*

Lets have a look it the past week. *warning* It is not all that exciting – apologies in advance!

Monday: hmm… this also tests my memory skills, it seems!
Ah, yes. I had a school visit. Now, the schools get a free visit from me (or my colleagues) and the organisation we work for pays us. Technically, I only go in to do an assembly and work with one chosen group of 20 (max) students for anywhere between 2-6 hours. Some schools, however, like to stretch us and get their money’s worth!! Monday’s school did exactly that. Phew! I delivered an assembly to 150 students, the 3 different workshops (1+ hr each). After this, and feeding me an highly unappetising school lunch, they got me to head over to the local primary school to deliver an assembly to 80 8-9 year olds. It seemed to me, once I’d done my speech, that every single one of these children had a random question to ask me! It took a while!

I think I mentioned Tuesday in a blog post earlier this week. It wasn’t that interesting so I’ll not bother writing about it

Wednesday: sigh.
I was at another school. I wasn’t really looking forward to this one really. I thought it was because I knew I was working with a group of boys with severe behaviour difficulties. I realised, on my way there, that it wasn’t the kids I was dreading – it was the teacher.
For my visits, I tend to work with one lead teacher to organise everything when I go in. Before hand this teacher immediately struck me as a very young guy who tried to be cool with the kids. I was correct.
I took the boys for a swimming lesson in the morning. Somehow, they managed to pull the teacher in the pool – suit and all – twice. I was laughing really hard in my head but I was also surprised that he let that happen. Not only that, but no one was in trouble!
The rest of the day went pretty well. The boys were lovely really, just had trouble showing it. I thought they were really chatty and I often had to stop talking and pull the attention back. However, the teacher said he’d never seen the students as well behaved as they were in my sessions. I took that as a great compliment. But I found myself wondering if that said more about me or less about him!

The rest of the week doesn’t really merit discussion as I wasn’t working and floated around doing very little.

Today, my lovely mum decided to take Chris (my fiancé) out for lunch at the place we are having our wedding reception next year. It was lovely. I decided it was an OK place to be seen as Stephen Hawkins himself came in for his lunch.
Because it was a nice day, we decided to wander over to the place we’ll actually be married and take a look round. You know, to see where photos could be taken. We are very lucky. Chris studied at Cambridge University so has the right to be married in his college chapel. Words cannot describe how beautiful it is.. Check these photos out (I’m so excited, can you tell?):



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As I said last week, I love having the opportunity to read a wide variety of different blog post. I am sad that some people have had to drop out, but hopefully we’ll meet again next time!

I’ve really struggled to find my favourite post from this week – there’s so many great one to choose from. But I think, since I am being forced with my arm tied behind my back, my favourite has to be:

groovygirl’s "Invalid Entry"  this was a great poem that really made me smile. A little disappointed that she doesn’t actually like spaghetti and meatballs. You can have everything, I suppose.