School's Out

Just as you are breaking up for your summer holidays, we're breaking up for our winter holiday (although, truth to tell, the weather is like a nice British summer day, warm and sunny with a gentle breeze but not so hot that you can't breathe).

Yesterday was Friendship Day here and everyone was supposed to go out with their friends (obviously) - well all the restaurants and cafes were full and getting a table was not easy. Most of the teachers were meeting up for an end of term drink but the place chosen was not a place I like at all - dark, loud music, bad beer - so I decided not to go. However I didn't spend Friends Day alone, L & I went somewhere else and had a very enjoyable dinner.

This morning I went into work to clear up some admin stuff and collect all my books so that I could plan for next term. I did intend to do my planning at work but I felt tired and achey. My arms and shoulders felt as if I'd been weightlifting or long-distance swimming although this has eased off now. I think it was just the stress and tension draining out of me. In fact for the last few days I've found it difficult to put a coherent sentence together (Jayne, I've invented another word - complode, a mixture of collapse and explode which was how my head felt at the time) and on Wednesday night I almost fell asleep at the table at the restaurant where we went to say goodbye to A (I've just had to rewrite that sentence about five times before it made any kind of sense).

Tonight I'm going to K's along with most of the other female teachers to have a 'girls' night - it should be fun and a chance to bitch gossip about our colleagues, put the world to rights and generally bond. I'm taking icecream and a bottle of wine... DO NOT PHONE ME EARLY TOMORROW MORNING!