Hugelkulur

Yippee it is raining.  Why yippee. Well today I gave up trying to organise teaching for a bit of physical therapy putting bits of wood into the ditches created by the tractor ready for planting the trees. Why I hear some of you cry was I doing this. Well I recently heard about Hugelkultur and whilst what I was doing was very very small scale apparently using buried wood as part of the agricultural system can improve the water retention properties of the soil as the wood can absorb and hold more water as well as providing all sorts of nice nutrients as it breaks down. So although I only did one row, what of course the wood needed to be more effective was rain, so thank you God.  I called for water and it came.


I also had a useful conversation with my head about teaching year 0. Apparently even she had problems getting them to work, I did not press her too much to find out if in her case that meant 2 minutes compared with my whole lesson, but it was a relief to hear she had had some problems. I still need to feel much happier with my performance with regard to the kids before I will consider staying here and today hearing that yet another nice person will be leaving and I know how much support I need to survive here I am still concerned that another year might just be more than I can cope with but I have just put together a sort of 10 year Apple Science/literature programme for the school and it would nice to see some of that come to fruition.

We have lots of plans for the next few weeks and hope to finish the year with a bit of a fundraiser party which will be a novelty at the school too.

Thanks for the helpful messages of support, I have been feeling quite down here partly cos of the teaching so I really appreciate the moral and practical support.