Snow. I didn't think you would follow me here...

I am starting to lose my mind. The lack of coping skills this country has when it comes to a little dusting of the white stuff is one of the most frustrating things in the world. Over the past two weeks my school has been closed 3 times and each time I have made my way there only to be phoned 5 minutes before arriving to tell me the school was shutting. Today I traveled for 6 hours to and from work (not to actually work at all)... the traffic was appalling. It turned into a "why me" day very quickly!

Anyway, moving on. My new job. I work a zillion miles away at a little rural school and I LOVE IT. It's becoming a challenge to get there, especially in this "awful winter weather" ... baaaah... But everyone is friendly, helpful, and the kids are fairly good! All in all, I am pretty sure I will not get bit. The kids are 10-11 years old, so I get to do "real teaching" with them! As I look back at my experience in Peckham I realized, there is no deeper, darker place to teach in London, one of the toughest places to teach anywhere as it is - and I survived! I feel like now I can teach anywhere! So, that warrants the question... where will it be next?! Some ideas are mulling around in my mind...

This weather is really putting a damper on a whole lot of things, including my social life! People are SCARED to go anywhere and trains and buses don't run... their brains turn to mush and I just shake my head. Sigh. I actually don't even think it's funny or entertaining anymore. I'd rather be in Canada where they can deal with the crap than here wondering what the Mayor and his minions have been doing! The mayor was asked about the same situation last year when it snowed a little what his observations were...his response "Well, I observed that snow was falling from the sky" ...... need I say more?

A blog about the weather... my apologies!

amy