Plans

So, here we are at the end of October and I've been in this country for eight months. Doesn't time fly when you don't have a life?

We've got about five weeks of normal teaching left, followed by a couple of weeks of intensive exam preparation (and if you thought I didn't have much of a life before now, wait until I'm doing split shifts every bloody day). This is finished off by a week or so of 'preparing for the new academic year' (whoopee) before we finally break up on 21st December. Of course, the end of term being so close to Christmas means that even if anyone wanted to fly home for the festive season, they couldn't afford it - I wonder if it's deliberate to prevent anyone flying home and deciding not to come back (me, I love conspiracy theories).

I'm not sure what I'll be doing during the summer break (remember I'm in the southern hemisphere and we're going into summer here). I've been invited to go away with my host from last weekend and I've got a friend from Milan flying into BsAs for a one-night stopover on 3rd January. She's travelling (as we speak) to Argentina by ship and will be spending a few weeks walking all over Patagonia. Then on 11th January my beloved parents are coming to visit. By then the weather should be hot and humid so it'll be interesting to see who wilts first!

I start back at school sometime around the beginning of February because I'm going to participate in the DELTA course being run here. I know I've done it before but, having spoken to others who took the course elsewhere, I don't think it was particularly good. Additionally, being referred on the coursework element was a huge hit to my self-confidence. I feel I need to participate in a course in order to pass the externally assessed teaching practice and thus pass the DELTA.

I actually considered giving up teaching and going back into an office job in the UK. The only reason I didn't was because (and if I've said this once I've said it a million times) my worst ever day teaching was still a million times better than my best ever day in any other job. I love teaching and that's another reason why I want to get this DELTA qualification.

Then in March, it's back to teaching proper and before you know it, it'll be this time next year and I'll be wondering where to go next!