Andrew told me that people may find this interesting. I may have to jazz it up a bit to make it so. Here goes.... Every day the alarm goes off at 5.45. We then go and hang in our own bathrooms. How fantastic is it that we have a boy and a girls bathroom. Andrew then makes me my breakfast which is usually pancakes with seasonal fruit or eggs benny with freshly squeezed orange juice. Yeah right! We leave the house at 6.30 then we walk through a big housing complex to catch the bus. The bus is an experience in its self. Most of the people on the bus are asleep. I don't mean resting their eyes, they are full on out to it. We often wonder how they know when to get off??? I love the bus because it has TV. So in the 15 mins it takes us to get to school I am up to date with the worlds news.
The bus drops us right to the bottom gate of the school. Note that I said bottom, we then have to climb the mountain of stairs to get up to school. It is so steep that Andew has decided to give up running because he thinks that that is enough exercise for the day. Ok so I may have exaggerated that a little. But it is fun watching the students climb the stairs everyday. Lets just say there are not many over weight students at ISS. Apart from the ones that Taxi all the way to the top gate of the school. I am in my office by 7. My office is pretty cool because it has like a McDonalds drive through window. Every morning most staff stop by and chat. I guess I am the counsellor so I am just doing my job.
School starts at 8 so that is when Andrew gets really busy teaching and stuff. I just sit waiting in my office waiting for people to come see me. I wish. I am really busy now I am doing all sorts of crazy stuff. In fact this week I signed a 2 year contract to stay with ISS. I am going to be the new Special educational needs teacher. I will start that role in August. Andrew is thrilled because I think that he thought i was serious when I said I was giving up teaching to work in starbucks after my 6 month contract ended. I am currently teaching two classes. The students are really great. I even have a kiwi boy from Napier in my Grade 10 Geography class, so I have at least one student that laughs at my jokes. The next highlight of the day is 3pm when the school day ends. Mon and tues we have staff meetings, Wed I go to Yoga, Thurs I am taking a hip/hop dance class and Fri we go to the Bali Hawker center for a few beers.
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