I love autumn. There is just something about the changing colours that brings me joy. It also helps that it’s not boiling hot and I am able to walk around and not sweat the minute I walk out in the morning. I’m all for that sweater weather – the autumn aesthetic. Not to mention coffee,…
Category: Quirks
The One Where I Try to Be Productive
It’s the school holidays – the summer break – which means I have nearly a whole six weeks to do so many things. Of course, one of my main priorities is relaxing and taking some time for myself as teaching is rather draining. But, as my friends have reminded me time and time again –…
Words and Art
I struggle to make time for the things I truly enjoy. Aside from travelling overseas to San Diego for Comic Con, I often find myself making excuses for avoiding activities that I used to really enjoy. Two activities that fall into this category are: | Reading | Art These are two things that I used…
Things I am not good at…
…regular blogging. I get all excited and then I forget things and then this happens… Then again, I’m not that good at being regular… well that could be TMI. In order to motivate myself to write more and take more time for me I actually paid for a domain name and everything…now that I’ve actually…
Things I Learned Yesterday…
I have a bucket list. In fact, I have several bucket lists scattered around on bits of papers and in half written journals. Doesn’t everyone? For the longest time my bucket list was pretty average. Go travelling, write a novel (I’m working on it) learn how to do a handstand (still working on that one…
31 Days of Horror, Bullet Journaling and Stuff
Admittedly 2016 has not been a good year for me. There have been highlights – most notably San Diego Comic Con – which was so awesome. There are words but none of them are intelligible at this present moment. But, generally, 2016 has been a ‘suckfest’ in numerous senses. I guess the gallbladder thing takes…
What the heck happened…?
So I was going to regularly update this blog but, unfortunately, my gallbladder had other ideas. On Good Friday, when I had a glorious long weekend spread out in front of me, a mysterious pain started in. At the time I thought it was just indigestion but the pain steadily worsened until I decided that…
Nerdy Teacher Building Relationships In the Classroom
So, I was rapping the verse from “Satisfied” from the amazing Hamilton Musical in class the other day and some students heard me. They were impressed. And this got me thinking about how the students view me. Cause, let’s face it, I’m pretty white. (Regardless of my ancestry I present as white.) Plus, I don’t speak with…
Passion, Purpose, Pride and Performance
Every Monday our principal provides us with a bulletin/newsletter of sorts that outlines the week, gives us some thoughts to ponder and reminds us where we are in the grand scheme of things. Today’s bulletin had the following questions attached at the bottom so I thought that I might answer them. Question One: What is…
What are my goals? Classroom Edition
As week three hits I’m already well into deciding what goals I have for myself and my students. These are not to be confused with the goals I have for my self care and looking after myself – rather, these are with regard to my students. The ones that I see in front of me…
Coffey and Paperclips 