What do you do with all that time?
7:49 pm on the 1st of April, 2007I’ve been a student now for a few years and I’m quite used to being busier during my summers than my term time - going away to other countries, working to pay for those trips, and generally not having time to do nothing like I used to when I was at school.
This year will be a bit different, I’ve got no plans to go away anywhere abroad unfortunately, and I don’t have any long spells with nothing happening - that’s mainly to do with this being my last year as a student and starting a new job in August.
But I do wonder what other teachers, who are used to working 5 days a week in school and all the other hours outside, do to fill their days.
Personally I have to finish my dissertation, write another essay, then fit in an exam, an oral exam and presentation, a graduation, a graduation ball, a wedding, a caving trip (hopefully), a week or so up north walking, a week in Perthshire, a trip to Mull for the Regatta, and all the other things that will no doubt come up.
On top of that I might have to find a place to live, maybe buy things to furnish the new place, maybe buy a new car, and work out all the things that I should have prepared for my first year of teaching.
And in all of that I want to try and get a bit fitter, and learn a bit of French and improve my German somehow.
So with all of that I don’t think I’ll have much time left.
Tags: caving, exams, Mull, Perthshire, scotland, summer, summer_holidays, walking
April 5th, 2007 at 12:16 pm on the 5th of April, 2007
lol, I’m hoping that next summer, I’m going to RELAX!! although thinking about it, it could well involve moving house depending on where I end up working!
This summer however, how about organising and attending the grad ball, having a baby (which is due 10 days after the grad ball), maintaining a car - much worse than buying one - we’ve just been informed that the timing belt is about to ‘go’(!), and of course all that dissertation stuff/preparing for next year teaching.
it’s so true what you say - going to Uni is a break compared to how busy you are the rest of the time. It’s funny how many things you start thinking - oh, I’ll do that during the holidays. THANK GOD FOR HOLIDAYS! I am looking forward to getting things settled where hopefully like most other teachers you can RELAX for a bit before starting next term… though I wonder when this will be!
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