FIN!

The play has come to a close!!  Our first night was a bit rough - but the cast and crew really kicked butt on the second and third night!  We had a low audience attendance:  33, 27, and then 55 on the closing night.  Monday I have tally up the sales and see how well we did! Hopefully we have plenty to donate to the Endoscopy Unit at the hospital.

What's up for next year?  We'll just have to see!

It's all in the timing.

Time seems to be going by much faster these days.    Four more weeks of school to go!  

NEXT week is my play "All in the Timing."  It's been a lot of work, but I'm quite excited!I had one student drop out last week - I wasn't very impressed.  I have a few others who haven't learned all of their lines.  I need to work on my scary as all hell director aura for next year's play.  We were in the paper - HUGE picture!  Check it out here!!

Last night was the Year 13 Leavers Dinner.  It was so sad - I know the 13s were only my form for like six months, but they were fabulously awesome during those six months.  It was the best part of the day (especially when you primarily teach 7,8,9s).  Hopefully I can get my hands on some of those pictures.  Chrissy got the award for best female teacher - RIGHTLY so - she is brilliant with them and they love her!

Also trying to get my drivers license - I have to take the written exam, but I misplaced my provisional license....so that's not going to happen until I can find it...or order a new one.  But you know the minute I order a new one and Pay 17 quid for it - I'll find the other one.  It seems to have vanished.  I should have never taken it out of my purse.  I have a driving lesson today, so lets hope that I dropped it in the instructors car.  If not - it's unfortunate.

Really looking forward to heading home.  Hendo is coming with me - so it should be twice as exciting.  I think I'll appreciate home more with someone who has never experienced the joys of North East Ohio.  I'm writing up a list of things I just have to do.

Funny - 2008 has been a UK year.  As will 2009 and 2010.  Wow.  That's really scary.  Cambridge better be worth it!

Stages

Today I composed a poem.  It doesn't really make sense unless you know me and my story.  But that's ok.  I don't think anyone knows my story.

Stages

Welcome to the world....
being born, beginning to live. learning how to walk, talk and be. learning to hold your head up. learning your name.

Going to School...
starting the formal process. making friends, meeting siblings, trying not to cry.

Growing up...
learning that I wasn't smart, I wasn't first, I wasn’t anything special. I was stubborn, I was a drama queen.

Bleeding Green and Grey...
finding the meaning of community, doing what I wanted to do. experiencing, laughing.

Move Along....
everything changes. people change. desires change. feelings towards life changes. it’s called “growing up.”

Blank Canvas....
working hard to become a worker. starting over. making new friends, being a new person. finding love. losing. losing everything.

MAKE A CHOICE
who will you be? where will you go?

pray that you chose correctly.

Starting out on a journey....
new faces, new places. striving for something, yet not knowing what. starting again. trying to smile. Trying to find ---

Seven seems like an awfully big number...

First day back and it wasn't the welcome I was hoping for.  I had planned on doing one, and it didn't work out, so I swapped for something else, and the technology didn't work out.  I felt like I lost the battle of teaching today -- and I only had two classes!  Good grief.... 

The Play has now taken over most of my thoughts.  I am concerned that we only have four weeks.  Two of those four weeks half of my cast is off on work experience.  My nerves are through the roof.  "All in the Timing" now feels like a death threat.    Everything works out in the end.  So.  Let's see how this goes.

Busy week ahead as well.  One more rehearsal for my run crew then to the gym tomorrow, getting my hair did on Wednesday (I will have to post a photo), followed by Lee Evans.  Thursday is cheerleading and then Friday I have a makeup clinic with some girls who are helping with it for the play.  I suppose if I was busy I would be bored.  No time to be busy in this life.

Looking forward to the weekend more than ever....

Had a pub night tonight.  I could use more pub nights in my week.  They might make me less cynical and catty -- something teaching has turned me into...Fabulous company makes the world a better place.  It's right up there with the nobel prize winners.

I've also given up chocolate.  Well.  Maybe not entirely, but I'm going to make a mad attempt to be a bit more careful of what I eat.  Close to summer, and that means that you have to wear bikinis.  Well, in oHIo you do.  I'm not sure the sun ever really comes out in the UK....  I suppose I do have a holiday in the homeland to look forward to!

Oh - and the time with Ron was lovely.  Here's a

 bit of a snapshot:

(Yea, we'll always have a mad case of sibling rivalry)

Seven

Seven more weeks of school!

Half term is officially over.  Erin headed back to the states on Saturday morning, and now it's just me.  Very sad.  But on the upside, we had an excellent two weeks.  Everything from messing about at school to messing about in front of Buckingham Palace.  Lizzie....she needs to invest in some bins for her front yard.  

The upcoming week is quite busy.  I feel as though it's going to be a hectic one, but should be excellent.  Play rehearsal Monday and Tuesday, Hair did on Wednesday, Cheerleading on Thursday - and then it's Friday!  There, I just lived the week.  Seven more.  Seven more.

I'm also making an attempt to get my head around the whole Driving test -- Hazard and Perception is getting my attention this week.