15. The First Weekend
Now, you definitely have this down. You have another essay to complete (a reflective one on my first week?! Easy.) and your first lesson plans to do for an activity you are running in Mr Wearys classes next week. This is so great. At university, you did no work for two years and fifty weeks and then, effectively, got your 2:2 by doing twelve essays in a fortnight. A 2000 word essay and a couple of lesson plans. Shmeazy. Ill do it all on Sunday. So, off you go, drinking and nightclubbing like your life depends on it. You, Trevor and Laura. Dancing. Doing shots of Sourz. Its great. 48 hours of hedonistic bliss. Being a teacher is a lot like a student but with the inevitable £50,000 youll get when you pass the course. You talk about curriculums, pedagogy and Gove. Youve only been on the course for a few weeks and here you are, talking with the authority of a Principal as Laura and Trevor head towards their supermarket management lives, no doubt earning £10,000 or something. You are so winning at life right now.