A long awaited week.

Got a lift to work which was useful. In theory I thought I was teaching till 4.30 today, but finished at 3.30. This is the week I have in theory been looking forward to, one because year zero and year one are off, so there is slightly less teaching and two as a result I wanted to get on with just practical things like making resources, but to be honest felt too tired today and had to catch up with schemes of work updates and marking instead.  Also no sign of our head, so no chance to have our long planned meeting for this term and colour printer still being repaired so limited what resources I want to make.

I realise that we have had snow for 4 months now, but compared with the floods, that seem to be bedevilling more and more of England I am very well off.

I have to laugh on Saturday, when because it was my birthday I was quite looking forward to eating with the family. I could hear everyone in the family eating next door, so thought they usually call me, so I waited, then when I came out they had finished and the owner's mum challenged me as to why I had not gone and eaten in the restaurant with the other guests. Maybe because I did not know that there were guests and that I have suddenly become a guest again rather than a family member. Luckily all I fancied was bread and jam so was just stayed in the family quarters instead, only eating as a guest in the evening and Sunday, now today I am having to be a family member again so I am waiting for everyone to eat, but again cos still not really right, really just want bread and jam and to go to bed.  Tomorrow there are guests, so again my status will change, more of the food merry go round, that is life here.

(I did have dinner with the family, but I do not know why, but again the owner's mum picking up a wodge of meat and trying to put it on my plate, just completely put me off - I am used to sharing a plate of food e.g plov, but that is just a touch too familiar.  Understandably as she is used to organising things here she keeps telling me how to do things such as locking doors or turning off lights, forgetting that I have lived here for several months and on my own at times.