The End

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Date: 09 April 2011 07:01:06

And so it's over. Yesterday was my last day at school.

To carry on from where I left off on the last installment of the job saga...

Having handed in my notice, there was the issue of 'what next'. So the job hunt began. I got all excited at the idea of teaching abroad. Alien is young, Socks is self employed, the world is our oyster, we could go anywhere, do anything! So, I applied for a teaching job in Tanzania, having been there in my gap year and loved it. Actually, I applied for 2 by accident!! I did the application for one and sent it off, then realised that it wasn't the one that I'd meant to, so I applied for that one too!

I was rather surprised in the following week to receive invitations to London to interview by both schools!! I went to the first interview, which was for the school I preferred the look of, and the interview went extremely well. That evening Socks and I were discussing it, and he decided, for a variety of reasons, that it wasn't the right thing for us to be doing. I therefore had to contact both schools and withdraw my application. The atmosphere the following week (or so!!) at home wasn't the most pleasant!!!

Having discounted jobs abroad, that left me with the depressing thought of teaching in the UK. So instead, I'm having a sabbatical!!! I'm so so so tired - physically and mentally, and I missing out of lots of Alien's school stuff, and generally seeing her. Socks is also at the point in his business where he almost, but not quite, needs to employ someone, so this all led us to decide that I'd stay at home for a term. The theory is that I will then return to teaching in September, although so far I've only actually applied for one job!!

Which brings us to now - pretty much the whole range of emotions going on! Relief that stress and pressure has gone, much sadness that I've abandoned my class before the end of term and that I've left a fantastic community and family school with lots of lovely people, fear that I don't know what is 'next' in life and that our income is drastically cut, pleased to have the chance to chill and just be (to an extent at least!!), scared of the growing list of tasks to be done, happy to be able to be a 'proper' mum to Alien for a bit, so many emotions!!!

This, in theory, means that there might be more blogging going on too because I've actually got some time now!