Markets and Parents Evenings

Hello readers! I hope your week has gone splendidly well. It has been a pretty good week for me in the UK.

On the career side, it was rather busy. I had my first parents evening, for my Year 8 students, on Wednesday. It was a busy evening and I saw a lot of parents --most were of my best students. There were a few students with behaviour problems that I am happy I saw their mums and dads; however, there were a lot I wish had showed up. Favourite moments were when students who cause a lot of behaviour issues for me in lessons, were waiting outside for other teachers and avoided making eye contact with me because they did not want me to talk to their parents. I am still debating if I should make some phone calls home to those parents.

It has officially been verified that I will be in Poland from Feb 3-5 on a school trip with the Year 9 History classes. We leave early on the Monday morning and arrive back in the afternoon on Wednesday. It is a short trip, but I think it will be amazing. We spend most of Tuesday at Auschwitz on a tour, it will be heavy yet impactful day---hopefully the students can take something away from it.

I feel that since I have been back, I am definitely trying to see more of England itself---even just different areas of London. Yesterday, I went to Portabello Market. It is a huge market in London. When Sarah was here, we wanted to head there but never got  the chance. The market runs all week long, but on Saturdays it thrives with extra shops and mass amounts of people. There were antique shops everywhere and tons of clothing shops with cute dresses--I didn't buy any but it was tempting.  The food on the market was AMAZING! We ended up eating at a small restaurant on the street of the market, but outside there was tons of food stalls cooking the most delicious smelling food. I could have eaten all day there. There was even a live band playing in a small building at the end of the street, where we entered just in time for a short 15 minute hail storm and indulged in some yummy mulled wine.

I am hoping to venture to Bath next weekend and do some site seeing there. So much to see!

On a different note, it has been a great week/or two hearing from some of my Canadian friends finishing up their education year and thinking about coming to the UK. Good luck to everyone and feel free to ask questions/we can have a chat about it :)