10 February, 2006

I have now officially met all my classes…I am going to go back next week but I can see this is going to be a very interesting year. The Computing College students are great, the Year 11 graphics class are pretty standard teenagers and the Year 10 Material Tech students are…well…Year 10 students. I had them for one hour today and was totally drained after. In an interesting twist one of the students I met during my practice at Linwood is in the class. I think he spent the period trying to hide. Poor kid. I feel almost exactly like I did on my first teaching practice. Hopefully that means I’ll find my feet and get into it and stop feeling like a muppet. Needless to say I am glad I did all that brewing and distilling over Christmas.

My laptop has started to fall apart. I think something in the graphics card area is starting to fail but knackered if I can track it down. Sometimes computers seemv ery random. It occurred to me recently that I used open source software for everything so there is nothing stopping me from moving to a Linux operating system now. After a bit of playing I’ve decided I like Suse so very soon Windows XP will be replaced.

I think I need some sleep very soon.