So i filled the application form in, I sent it off 30 minutes before the deadline on Wednesday last week, then I forgot about it for a while. fast forward to Tuesday (INSET day after a Friday, Monday holiday) and I notice an email in my inbox from myjobscotland. Weird. I open it and it wishes me congratulations...

4th years have just left the building. I have an Int 1 4th year class who have 3 personas in my classroom. No 1: Hard working but badly behaved. No 2: Well behaved but they do no work. No 3: Swinging from my roof tiles. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground with them. I never seem to get working...

5 weeks done and it feels like 2! Life has gone so fast and so has teaching. My last 6 weeks have including quitting one job I love to start a new job that I hope that I loved, moving home, setting up my first flat and starting a new life on the East coast of Scotland. It has been a hard few weeks and...