I can’t believe how long it’s been since I last wrote. In those weeks I have started and finished another job. I have been working at the private English language school since the beginning of June. My lovely students have their exams tomorrow and Friday, so the lessons finished today. It has been an intense part of the academic year to be there - just the two months before the exams, and these last two weeks in particular, I have really been pushed to my limits. I’m. So. Tired. But it has been amazing. I have been incredibly unbelievably lucky to be able to build on my assistantship - it was just co-incidence of what I was doing and what this school was doing that allowed this amazing opportunity to happen.
It has made me more sure that this year isn’t going to be the extent of my teaching ‘career’. I just like it too much. It was great to teach in quite a different environment, with small groups and individuals in a custom-created environment with an interactive whiteboard and everything. I said goodbye to my favourite students a few hours ago. I’m not meant to have favourites, fine, whatever, then sue me. But I had this class on my first day, and I messed up the lesson completely, but I love them as people, so ever since then they’ve been my little project. Giving them my final advice for tomorrow’s exam, I felt really sad that I won’t get to teach them again.
In the rest of my life, I have been having a fully lovely time. It has been proper beach weather for maybe six weeks. I live about half an hour’s bus ride from the beach, and I have been there nearly every week. The weather is great, and I’m very happy. The only niggling thing is that my time is running out much faster than I am comfortable with.
