First day of work

It is officially my one week anniversary of being in London! yay! This past week has been amaazing!! I'm so happy I moved! I started my first day of work on Thursday at a school called Pinkwell which is in zone 5 (London is categorized into zones 1 being most central 6 being farthest) It was a pretty long hike, took me about 2 hours to get home. But again I must say I'm pretty proud of myself for I successfully got there and didn't get lost at all!! I had to get on the tube, take a train, and then take a bus!!
I was teaching in a Year 5 classroom which is 9/10 year olds. They were great! I had such an fun time with them, they were really great kids. I had 4 girls that immediately took to me and wanted to help me with everything! So of course I took all their help! I had all kinds of little workers making everything run smoothly. All the students there were very polite and would always address me as "Miss" they're soo cute in their little British accents!! They would ask me first before they didn't ANYTHING! "Miss, can I use the toilet?" "Miss, can I get more cellotape?" Miss, can I get more rubber?" I loved them!

Oh yea, well there was a slight pickle.... when my kids went to computers, they asked if I could teach PE for an hour.. I went to the PE teachers room and he gave me the whole run down. He told me that they were playing hockey today and gave me all the equipment. So I got the kids, they all got dressed and ready and we went outside on the field to play a friendly game of hockey :) Now we're all out on the field, and there's an autistic boy in the bunch....who gets a little aggressive, and "hands on" at times...and also swears loudly from time to time. He grabs a hockey stick and starts swearing and running after all the children tackling them! It was terrible! I had to chase after him and physically calm him down. I asked one of the kids to go inside and grab a teacher. Luckily she quickly came out and took him inside for me. Phewf! That was getting a little sticky... I was finding it difficult to organize teams and get the game started with all the violent mayhem. Hahaha!! Too funny, this is why I love teaching..the craziest things happen! Like to start--why am I teaching PE???

All and all, a wonderful day. Yesterday I met up with two girls Nadia and Jumoke to see if we would get along as flatmates. I met them at a Starbucks on Regent St. I loved them! They're two really great girls, like girls I would actually be friends with! I'm very happy so I'm going to move in next week. I need to stay at the hostel a bit longer because I wouldn't have enough money to pay security deposits and rent and still be able to eat and pay for transport! So I have to wait until I get some money before I can move. The flat is in Willesden Green, which is on the border of zones 2 and 3.

Very successful week! I've started work, I have my UK bank account set up, I have a flat, and I have friends!! :) Life is good.

Today I'm going with Nadia to the Cambridge vs Oxford boat race. Apparently it's quite a big deal and a big social gathering. If you're at all interested http://www.theboatrace.org/ tells all about it.