Luverly

It's early Wednesday morning and this is the first time I've been able to get on-line since the weekend. So, what have I been up to?

Well, firstly I've more or less planned the South American leg of my journey home and booked three quarters of the necessary bits (some has to wait until the weekend). Talking of which, I will be planning the Australia/New Zealand leg and making a decision about Asia.

Secondly, I've been invigilating listening and writing exams for the last two days which means marking one set of papers while sitting with the next set of students taking an exam. So far I've managed to keep up with the writing but it's doing my eyes in. Only six students have failed to turn up (and I knew about three of those) and I guess they'll do the exam next week (I hate stragglers). Today (Wednesday) and tomorrow we have the reading and grammar exams which are much easier to mark being either right or wrong. Friday is report writing and general admin leading into last lessons next week.

On a different note, I went out for a short walk on Sunday to photograph the Jacaranda trees as they are in full bloom at the moment. Their blossom is an interesting shade of mauve and when it falls it blankets the grass. Remember the yellow blossom from the Saturday walk last year?


Here's the mauve blossom from my Sunday walk this year.


So that's me, nothing especially exciting, but nothing worrying either.

Oh, and the summer has finally kicked in - we have warm nights with hot and humid days. Lovely.