Rickshaw to the rescue!

This week I have been at the same school teaching the same class. I really enjoyed having so stability! The kids were a little crazy (sometimes very crazy...) but it was really nice to form a bit of a relationship with a group of students. I had a really great week! I've probably never been so strict, but it's so cool to see myself grow as a teacher. I find that I'm getting so much better at classroom management. Oh! On Friday the kids had swimming! We got on a coach and drove down to the local public indoor swimming pool! It was so cute to see the kids in their swimming costumes (that's what the call a swim suit) and swim caps! aah so cute! Also I made a new friend at school- Sarah! She was doing supply for another Year 5 class in the school all week, so we became friends and would have lunch together in the staff room. We went out last night for a bit and we're talking about going to France together! She's from Australia and has been in the UK as long as I have! Very nice week, on Friday I was sad to leave them...

On Tuesday it's my birthday! The big 2-3. I'm going to go out on the town with my housemates, and on Wednesday Nadia got tickets for us to see a live taping of a sit-com! This birthday is going to be really weird not having my friends around to celebrate. I haven't really gotten homesick since being out here, but when I think about my birthday I get a little sad. I'm used to spending my birthday with all my friends and having a dinner with all of them :( What's really nice though is what great friends I have in Jim and Nadia. Nadia almost talks about my birthday more than I do! I'm really blessed to have found them.

This photo was taken last weekend. Nadia and I went to this bar called Jewel in Picadilly Circus. It's gorgeous! The bar had amazing chandeliers everywhere. Going out in London you have two choices, if you go home before 12 you can catch the last tube. Otherwise you have to take the night bus home. We get get our night bus from Oxford St--the good old 98 bus! When we left Jewel we had to walk a bit to get to Oxford and our feet were hurting! Just as we were saying how our feet hurt-- a crazy rickshaw man appeared! We haggled down his price from £18 to £5!! haha--it was the funnest ride ever!! We were screaming and giving people high 5's on the street as we passed! I've never laughed harder