Your Hot and Your Cold....

I start this weeks blog with song by Katy Perry's Hot and Cold cos I have been sooooooooo ill this week!

It was on Thursday when it all started during my Arts in Education Seminar. I turned to my friend next to me and said, "please feel my head I think I am burning up!" Luckily the person next to me wasn't a stranger and the caring person that she was, she felt my head and reassured me that yes I was very hot and most probably had a fever. As I have 100% attendence, a little fever wasn't going to stop me! But as the lesson progressed I lacked concerntration, I hardly participated and all I wanted was my bed!

After the horrible journey home I met my boyfriend at my house who is never sympathetic when I am ill and hoped he would notice how ill I was. I went to my room and ended up crying because I felt so bad. My boyfriend was more confused than feeling sympathetic, but he tucked me into bed and left me to sleep and went home. My mum ( the best person to live with when your ill) brought me in a hot water bottle and some paracetamol. I went off to sleep with the hope of feeling better the next day but I was wrong! The next day I felt awful still with a fever and freezing cold body what was going on! My dad was about to look after me, constantly shouting 'Georgina have you taken your tablets' he feels it necessary to continually say when I need to take paracetamol and that it will cure everything....It doesn't. I ended up braving the drive to my boyfriends house so he would look after me on the weekend....What a mistake. Still ill, no mum with the hot water bottle, no dad with the paracetamol. Is this what married life is going to be like? I declared to my boyfriend 'I want my Mum! I want to go home!' Nothng beats being in your own bed, looked after by your mum and dad when your ill!' So I have decided to make the most of the next 8 months before getting married and no longer being able to run home to be pampered before Princess Georgina of East London is no more!

So today is Day6 of this illness, the fever has gone (good riddence) the runny nose has dried up (gross) but the cough prevails!

Bit of a QTS skills test update: I received an email the other day from the TDA ( teacher development agency) the people in charge of the tests. It said there was a fault with marking the punctuation sections of the literacy tests and where they had marked me as failed in my first test it was incorrect and I had actually passed. So passed all 3 tests first time GO me!!!

See ya x x x

Snow-pen day!

Last weekend was one of our great open days that the university holds, for people wanting to have a gander, and find out more information on different courses. It was freezing cold and even though in some parts of the country it was snowing people managed to drag themselves out of their warm houses to attend.

If you didn't know our open days generally run from 10am to 3pm. People arrive at alsorts of times and sometimes don't get to have a look at all they want to if they advise late. I think it is important to plan your day when you visit and open day to truely get an opportunity to experience the university.
Here's a suggested timetable for anyone interested in Primary Education:

    * arrive,sign in  and grab a cup of tea
    * welcome talk
    * student finance talk
    * primary education talk
    * If you have any questions that werent answered in the talk go to the education room and speak to academics
    * Speak to an ambassador about your course and what its like at the university
    * Campus Tour
    * Accomodation Tour
    * Student Life Talk
    * Speak to representatives from aspire/student union/ disabilities/nursery


This week as I have heard is Snow, Snow, Snow, theres more Snow and when will the Snow go! Surprisingly enough I didn't have much uni on this week and have only had an admin session cancelled. One thing I am doing whilst sitting in my warm bedroom, in my adult babygrow is my Core curriculum Assignment. It's 4000 words, which I am not loving writing. Because of the large word limit I decided to break it down into achieveable chunks....So 1000 words a day. I've kept on target and due to complete my 3rd 1000 words to get me to 3000 and boy am I struggling! The plan is to have it finished by the weekend, so next week I can tweak it! Wish me luck!

I had my first Day School Placement on Monday and got to meet my class that I will be teaching from January. They are a lovely year 2 class in Stepney, East London. There are some funny little characters in the class and I can't wait to work with them. I was really scared of going in and meeting them and the school. But once I was there I didn't want to leave. The teaching placements are the best bit of my course. Putting all I have learnt into practice. I'm there again next week on Monday too!

Thats all for now back to the assignment!

Georgina :)