English Week Reflections

I have had the most insane week. I spent the weekend before English week making book marks, around about 60 and it was really enjoyable. I had the most fantastic committee helping me out and I am very proud of how much work they put into it. On Monday we had a Shakespeare Day where the students had to quote a line of Shakespeare in order to get a lolly. On Tuesday we had an archaic word hunt. I wasn't ready for the amount of students turning up. About 50 students came hurtling into my classroom about ten minutes after the bell, all having solved the riddle. Seriously impressive. On Tuesday night I had to make MORE bookmarks, so I put my report writing off for another day (such a hardship). On Wednesday we had an English quiz to which my tiny classroom was overrun with 60 students all crammed in. Thursday rolled around and I still hadn't written any reports, I had much more interesting things to worrry about, like what poem I was going to perform at the Poetry open air performances... ended up going with Ithaca by Cavafy. Even some of my students turned up and did performances and other students also performed. I was impressed with the clarity and poise that some of the girls had when performing their pieces. On Thursday night I had way more important things to do. One was to decorate a cake. And it was seriously decorated if I do say so myself. I also had Cherie straighten my hair.We decided that from behind I look like cousin It from the Adam's family.
Today, Friday, was absolutely amazing. We had a dress-up day and cake decoration competition. About ten students made cakes and quiet a few dressed up. I am really happy about how they week went. After selling the cakes in slices - we made $130 which we are going to donate to KidsCann - we took my cake upstairs and I let the committee eat it. I was dressed up as Lady Macbeth all day so by the end of the day I was ready to call it quits. Now, it is the weekend and I have 130 reports to write and about 100 essays to mark.