Nearly one month gone!

Well, it is nearly a month since I moved back up here from Plymouth, and how things have changed. I have been at college training to be a teacher for nearly a month now. I am still completely and utterly exhausted, partly due to getting up at 5.40am! It is getting easier though, and I am getting used to it. Today I went to the school where I will spend my first school placement. They are a lovely bunch of children, and the teacher is really nice as well. I am in a Y1 class for this first placement, and as I spent most of last year in a Y1 class, it is not completlely new to me. College seems to be going well, and am making a great group of friends, who are all as mad as hatters, but hey they are fantastic.
I do feel guilty that I am become completely lazy around the house though; my mum cooks my tea, does my washing (except I do put my sheets in the washer, but then she takes them out again) and does any errands that I need doing, my dad mostly deals with the washing up after tea etc, so that leaves me with -um, well, not a lot really. The other day I came back from college and discovered that my mum and sister had been through my wardrobe and hung up all my clothes that were in piles in the bottom of it. They had also been doing other bits and pieces in my room - and now I can't find anything! I didn't ask them to do it, yet Alex (my sister) still made me feel guilty about her having to do it.
So, that's pretty much been my life the last few weeks - college, college and more college!
I have however become addicted to doing Su Dokos. I do the easy ones, my dad does the fiendish and difficult ones, and my mum does the crossword, so the back page of the T2 often gets torn up so we can all do the bits we like - as for the dog, well he just lies over the rest of it!
Something else that caught my attention was an article from the Times about a women getting arrested for wearing a "Bollocks to Blair" t-shirt. Now then, what i want to know is - why was she arrested? Given that most of the people at the Burghley Horse trials were buying these, will they all get arrested? Also- where will this end up? Will we end up in a country like the one in 1984? Something worth thinking about.

Welcome Tony Pullis

So Argyle have named the new manager: Tony Pullis. Being a girl, and not having got into football for that long (well 5 years) and not knowing that much about other team's managers, I can't say that I know that much about him. However, being the manager of the club I support, I will give him my full support (until we get relegated).
We have some really tough games coming up, so it will be something of a baptism of fire for him, but I wish him well.
PAFC GREEN AND WHITE BARMY ARMY!

Plymouth: it's where it's to!

Maybe it's because I'm on "study days" so I've been sat round the house all day doing nothing - sorry "working", or maybe it was phoning Owen up on Tuesday and talking about the Argyle game, which I wasn't at, or maybe it's finding out that some of my best friends in Plymouth aren't good at the moment, but whatever the reason, I am really really really missing Plymouth at the moment. The only trouble is, trying to work out when I can actually get round to fitting in a visit down to the West Country. It takes me roughly 5 hrs to drive down (I can do it in under 5 hours, but it's not advisable), and to make sure that I have enough time to see everyone that I want to see, I will have to spend several days down there. The next time that I can probably realistically get down is reading week at the end of October, (plus if I stay till Sunday then I can take in an Argyle game), but can I wait that long?

It's the little things that please!

This phrase is particularly true right now. England have won back the Ashes. To some (including me for some weird reason) this is actually a huge thing. However, those that saw the pictures of Michael Vaughan lifting the urn - well it can't be more than about 6 inches (15 cms) tall! It's tiny! However, the relief when we actually won was great.
Another pleasing little thing was Argyle actually managing to score a goal last night, the first time for over a month! It's also our first point for over a month. We have also just sacked our manager, the question is who on earth is going to want to manage a team that take a month to score a goal and register a point?
Driving to college and back yesterday I couldn't help but notice the huge queues at all the petrol stations that I passed. We have kept being told that there is no shortage of petrol in this country, however all the panic buying that everyone has done has meant that petrol stations are running out. This means that when people like me, people who are nearly running on empty, want to buy petrol, they have to endure a massive queue and also have to find a station that actual has petrol! If people hadn't have gone out panic buying then there would be plenty of petrol for everyone. What made me laugh even more was the lack of actual protest today!
College is going well at the moment - still tired, but getting there.

Miss Brebner!

"It's kinda funny, how life can change, can flip 180 in a matter of days" are some words from a song by Blue. I can definitely relate to that, as having arrived home, not knowing what life has in store for me, and having a bit of relaxing time at the Burghley Horse Trials I got a phone call. This was no ordinary phone call - this was a phone call to say that if I wanted it I could have a place on the PGCE Course at the college in Lincoln that I applied to ages ago, and got turned down for, and then put on the waiting list for. The course started on Monday so I didn't really have much time to think about it or get prepared, but it is now happening, so I will become a teacher - and will be Miss Brebner! (man - how on earth are the kids going to pronounce that! - clearly will need to think about that if or when I get married!)
I've only been going for 2 days - and I am already absolutely shattered - how on earth will I cope for the rest of the year?