A Relatively Unexciting Week

Relatively is the operative word. Certain things may or may not have been set in motion. Stay tuned, I may elaborate further later. Or maybe I won't.

Anyway, my lessons went pretty well this week. The headmaster is talking about buying more textbooks for the school which would be fantastic. I just need to figure out which study guides I should ask him to get for me. Hopefully that will help with performance. I want to mention one of my students named Agnes who is a very sweet girl, but has really struggled in school. She rocked at least 2 (out of 6) of her exams this term. I am really proud of her and I expect big things from her.

I moved my desk from the staff room to the lab (still under construction, but it is coming along), so that has been nice. I share a room with the physics teacher and people come visit us, but it gives me a nice refuge from that colleague of mine. Mr. Godwin brings a radio some days and the FM only sometimes works, so when he switches to shortwave, we usually end up with an odd collection of 70s, 80s and 90s music. I sing along a little bit when my students aren't around (I think it is obligatory to sing along when We Built This City on Rock and Roll comes on).

I set the schedule for the term this week. I included some pretty radical moves. Instead of having lessons in no particular order, the schedule will be more predictable (like having chemistry first lesson every day). Neither the teachers nor the students are as excited about this as I am. Still, I hope that the consistency will help the students to get a better rhythm at school. And also prevent a certain colleague of mine from skipping as many of his lessons. That might be too much to hope.