weekly

It seems that weekly blog postings is all I can manage at the moment. Sincerest apologies.

This week has been, well, long and tiring.  I still have so much to get my head around with work...not just planning lessons, but the paper work that goes with working in an IB school.  Not to mention that this week I had to be at school 2 nights from 6-9 and that I've now also started doing Co Curriculars after school (which I love actually- I'm teaching needle felting and crochet to groups of around 6 middle school girls).  And this week Remi has his wisdom teeth out which meant I had to run him round to dentists on Monday (my other planning day) AND I have a training course at school ALL. WEEKEND.  And next weekend I'm in Vietnam, so I have to really plan ahead.

Today is my get on with it and get some work done day which I have been doing all day, but I thought I needed a break...so here I am.

I do have some photos to share (hallelujah iPhone).  Some are rathe random, but it is, at least, an attempt at documenting the last week:

 I've taken to taking surreptitious photos of weird things on the MRT (subway)...like this guy who just felt like wearing monster shoes out in public one day.

 And this guy who was working frantically on some amazing illustration (cartoon/graphic novel I think) and no one was paying him the slightest bit of attention.  I wanted to get up really close and see, but he was really off in his own world.

 From last Friday night when Matt and I went out to dinner and managed to catch up with our friends from the US who now live here (for only the second time in a year...seriously.)

 And the very cool tiles at the restaurant (it was South American).

 Also from last Friday...after spending the whole day wandering around down there with Oscar, I thought it only fitting that I take a night shot

 A great view out the window while we were waiting for the lift after picking up my new glasses on Orchard Rd.  It always surprises me when I get a view how small SG really is!

 Out the window of my 4th grade art room during a lesson (they were drawing).  Seriously, the rain we have had lately!

 I'm hoping that no one will be able to recognise any faces in this one...we're not really supposed to put images of the kids in public spaces, but this was my best lesson (most fun and productive) so far.  KG2 (5 year olds) making a group collage of their houses from around the world (not my idea...I'm relying heavily on the other teacher who teaches the rest of KG2 and Grade 1 for direction for those classes at the moment).

 And kind of another one of my students.  One of the teaching assistants who is "helping out" in my needle felting class...all teachers have to do one CCA, so I guess she and her friend chose what they would like to do.  She'd just been in the Grade 1 class I'd had last period (a very noisy and rambunctious group)...and the needle felting by comparison was SOOOOO chilled.  I had them making moustaches, although if they didn't want to that was fine too.  I can really just sit back and relax in that class...although the crochet one is a bit more work.

And here's a totally shattered me (in my new glasses) giving poor little Rem Rem some loving.  He's been such a trouper with having those teeth out...he's off to Malaysia next week with school, so he has to take care of himself.

Matt and Oscar are in Hong Kong this weekend for a rugby thing...Matt's back Sunday, but Oscar's staying on his own 'till Wednesday.  It's a bit like Picadilly circus in the house right now.

Have a great weekend...and think of me plugging away at my "making the PYP happen" workshop.