19 April, 2005

My first term of teacher training has come to an end so it’s holiday time now. The teaching practice went well and the assessment week consisted mainly of getting a portfolio of work together and writing various bits and pieces about teaching, practice and working with students. Seemed an awful lot of cross-indexing for a few days there but it got done and handed in. I’m not really used to this whole ‘being graded’ concept any more but writing reflective articles I can do with my eyes closed so it balanced out.

I am back at the College of Computing for two afternoons this week to lend a hand with the game design course they are running. Yesterday was lots of fun and working with the younger age group is a good experience. There’s nothing like teaching something to learn it so I’m picking up lots of interesting ideas for my game as well.

The scooter is still a joy and is now, officially, my kind of vehicle. It’s silver, it’s electric, it plugs into the wall socket when I get home and it beats petrol hands-down on all around coolness. I’m finding it’s a nice speed to move through a city and I’m actually seeing things I haven’t seen before. It is a joy to ride.

I am still not very good at being on holiday but at least I have some energy to work on the garden and start preparing for next seasons growing. We got a lot out of the garden this year and the various fruit trees are starting to get established in their pots so we should start getting more fruit next year. The home brew draught is ready for drinking so we’ll crack that open soon for a taste. The ginger beer is still happily bubbling away and smells alright so it can carry on.