Hey guys, hope all is well!! and that you have had a nice relaxing weekend after you have all probably been busy as with stage challenge. Its a real bummer about the results...maybe they have it in for high school!!!. I hope you had a great day there anyway!! Well i am finally putting some pic's up from Paris...we had a really good time there. I just couldn't get over all the smokers and how many areas smelt like piss and food was really expensive there. We had four nights and five days there. Each day we walked around different areas and we started in Marais and Bastille as we were staying in the area. The next day we looked at the Lourve, Champs-Elysees & Montmare...it was a really long day walking around...the Lourve is so massive and we got lost at the start as the map was really hard to read. That night we walked up the sacre-coeur to watch the sunset...but didn't last that long as some guys started having a fight so we decided to leave. The third day we walked the Latin Quarter, St-German & Islands and we left the Eiffel tower to the final day.....which was the coldest day and there was a lot of fog around=( but it was still cool to go up the tower...a bit scary being in the glass elevator though. I have realised now that i really need to invest in some good walking shoes....and that im at least a 3 star traveller unfortunately....I'm really just not a fan of the toilets...everything else i can handle. The next trip is Morocco...which should be a bit of a culture shock, but am looking forward to something different....lets hope i don't get food poisoning.... I will be trying not to use the toilets as much as possible=).
I'm deff counting down as work is doing my head in at the mo...so will be good to have a break. Am going to try and last there until at least the summer holidays and ill go from there. Anyways hope you guys are not to busy, missing you all, thinking of you xoxox

Easter

I spent Easter weekend with my sister and her flatmates. We went out to Eastbourne on the Saturday just to have a relaxing day by the beach. We were lucky with the weather as it turned out to be a nice sunny day...still kind of chilly but nice when you were out of the wind. We decided it was a retirement town as there were so many old people everywhere, but it was a nice change from the fast paced London. And to just sit and relax by the beach=) We even had fish and chips by the beach and the fish was alot nicer then I was expecting...yum!!.

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Hey everyone, hope you have had a great break, hope the exhibition went well!! cant wait to see some pic's. And hope you all had enough time to relax. I have done a few things over the holidays so will add some pic's soon. I heard the sad news from Amy about Brad Martin...was really gutted to hear that...its so sad, Mollie will be lost without him. I hope that Monday goes well and I will be thinking of everyone=(

Hey guys hope you have had a good few weeks!!! How is all the stuff going for your exhibition Graham...hope it is all comming along well??? Very exciting not long now...you will have to take heaps of photos!!!..how is the new boss..I had a look on the website but it didnt say much about him?? bet your all glad he has arrived!!! How is everything else at school going??

I haven't done alot the last 2 weeks. Have been busy going from school to school and still finding my way around...which i think i will be doing until i leave London. An art job has come up at a school my flatmate works at so he has taken my cv in and they sound keen to interview me...so they may be asking you for a reference again Graham (sorry i know its such a pain...they make things very hard over here...I deff owe you). Its at an educational behavioural school...so the kids will be tough but I would be teaching the kids with the emotional problems, which i think could be a really good opportunity (and would help me get into counselling and maybe even art therapy later on). So will let you know how that goes. Other then that i haven't seen to many jobs.

What are you all up to at Easter??? Relaxing??? Bet you are all counting down!!! I deff am as Greg arrives on the 7th!!! I have booked flights and a hostel for Paris for 4 nights..so am really excited about that=) Yay. And a friend of mine from school lives south of London so I may go visit him for a day/or he may come up to visit me=) I am also looking into buying a wide angle lens/ or fish eye for my camera but still haven't decided what to go for???I think I will take some more photos this weekend.

Hope your all not to tired and have a great last week of school, hope the exhibition opening goes well Graham, will be thinking of you. Thinking of you guys xoxox

Hey guys, hope you had a great week/weekend=) I had four days teaching and more and more work keeps coming up which is good. Had two good schools and two really bad schools that i do not want to go to again. There was no teaching happening it was just crowd control and stopping them from fighting...kinda scary really. Have got one day a week until at least Easter if I want it teaching art to yr 9,10 & 11 year olds at a really nice primary school. So will do that until something else comes up, may also have some work helping out at a little catholic primary school working with some kids with different learning difficulties (still get paid the same)...so might go with that to..will see how things go. Had a day off on Tuesday and the weather was really nice so I thought I better do some sight seeing...went to Westminster...its so pretty...did not do my frottage yet Kaye but had a look around for some good places to do it=)...will do it next time=) Thinking of you guys xox

week 2

Hey guys. Another week!!! im glad they are going fast, really want greg to come over...its hard not really having friends..even though ali has been really good. Thanks heaps Graham for all the reference stuff...its such a pain how the agencies don't share info...& to find out about most jobs that come up you have to register with them...they make everything more difficult over here!! How was your weekend...hope you guys got to relax??...any news from the new boss??

Had another days work today...in an art room yay...the school was so nice...wish all the schools would be like that haha.. I have told them i would love to come back! Had a really busy weekend...my sister tried on her wedding dress for me...it looks so nice...such a strange thing...makes me feel so grown up do wedding things haha. Went out sat night to there fav pub for her friends birthday drinks...the drinking culture is huge here...don't think im to keen on it!!! there was a kiwi guy playing at the pub...was nice to hear all the NZ songs...but made me miss home a bit. have to ring every day for work in the mornings atm...it stresses me out a bit not knowing how long its going to take me to get there and they give crap directions....this is when an iPhone would come in handy...gps=) Anyway hope that the computers are up and running and that Stacey is doing well...am going to facebook jimmy to see....thinking of you guys xoxox


thought you guys might like this link...its a banksy interview.

1st teaching experience in London.........

Hi Guys...just had my 1st day teaching. Didnt think I was getting any work today the got a call just after 8...and had to dash. It had a really posh name...but was not a posh school haha, I had to take a french class...which was really pretty good...then was in the learning support room, however I would call it the drifters room......they were kinda naughty, but I think it was more they just didnt get it....I made it through the day ok anyway...really struggled with all the names...willhave to work on that. Just found out that there may be another job thats come up to have a look at so thats cool=) Its Art & Photography at a 6th form college (17-19), am waiting for more info. My sister has got tickets for the rugby fri night (think it ireland/england, but not really sure) & we are having a pubmeal/ someones b'day sat night.....its all go here, no time to relax...which is good because I m already missing NZ a bit. Ayway....who else got prefect positions???? Am stoked with liam and abby=) miss you guys...was dumb sitting in another staff room today=( xoxox