a homage to the last minute on dit editorial..

i have managed to survive a term at great baddow. quite a feat i think..

the term in review:

• 59 teaching days
• 1 totally hungover teaching day (never to be repeated)
• 96 history lessons taught
  
• 291 names of students learnt
• 9 OMR sheets completed
• 1 time the head has assumed i'm a 6th former (who can wear civvies)
• 35 incident report sheets filled in
• 4 physical fights broken up by inserting myself into the middle
• 2 secret grudges held against other teachers
• 7 times i've been told that i am hated and despised (by the same student)
• 1 student who i've inspired (for want of a better word) to become a history teacher (it's true! her mother told me at parents night.. it made my heart jump up and down and i couldn't stop grinning)
• 3 students who have cried in my presence
• 2 times students have made me cry in the toilets after last bell
• 12 friday night pints at the pub bitching with the other teachers
• 1 lovely letter from parents commending me on the job i'm doing
• 1 exceptionally critical letter from parents complaining about the job i'm doing
• 5 girls and 1 guy in office with extreme crushes on mike paradowski

but i got through it all and now i'm on school holidays! tomorrow i head off to berlin and krakow for two weeks. my plans include:

• sleeping late
• eating my way through a lengthy list of recommendations (thanks to matt, ali, zorg and kate)
• tracking down matiàs - the handsomest man in the world. japan friends will remember him from the a-bar, drunken doctors, kissing in the rain etc... all i have to go on is a fuzzy photograph and the fact that he works as a doctor in berlin. or did approximately 3 years ago. wish me luck!
• trying to make big life decisions involving what i should do after summer term

and i'm sure i'll find plenty of other activities to fill up my days. i'll try to update on my travels but it will depend i suppose on how long i spend in dark bars and cafes pondering life, love and trying to look mysterious...