just another morning here

The past week has been a whirlwind in more ways than one – I think it’s all good but I need about another month to get used to everything before I can be sure!

I spent the week on a very steep learning curve at work; my new job is basically that of a cover supervisor, taking classes while the regular teacher is on their planning time, covering classes if the teacher takes time out for subject development, that sort of thing. Loads to learn, as in my school each class does things differently and has their own little routines etc. It’s a completely new post in the school so it’s not only new to me and the other person doing the same thing, it’s new to everyone involved. And of course there’s never enough time to keep up with paperwork. But hey ho, it will probably get easier.

Meanwhile the other big news in our family is that Josiah had a successful voice trial at the Cathedral just over a week ago. We’d had it fixed for months and it finally came round; Steve and I had sort of prepared ourselves for him being turned down but in fact the result was overwhelmingly positive and the long and short of it is that he was offered a choristership, and as we don’t believe in wasting time, after a good taster day on Friday, he will be starting at the Cathedral school on Monday. He’s really pleased and excited; we are too, but still feel slightly astounded about the whole thing. It’s a huge commitment which feels pretty scary, but at the same time, it’s an opportunity for Josiah that neither he nor we wanted to turn down, so we are going for it!

So, lots of new things to get used to. Stress on! But it really is all good and underneath all the anxiety we’re pretty happy about it all

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