Countdown to Holidays!

 The Weekend was fun, relaxing and full of food as all good weekends should be. However, I’m now finding that enjoyable weekends do not leave me feeling refreshed and rejuvenated for the following working week so much as they make me insanely impatient for the Summer holidays.

I have not only started the ‘days to go’ countdown* but also an ‘individual lessons left to go with each class’ countdown. I only have 7 more lessons with my bratty Year 10 class! Yay! They have activities day and Work Experience days knocking out a fair few lessons! Oh joy, oh rapture! I’m considering writing a countdown on my whiteboard but maybe it’ll induce too much excitement** at the prospect of it nearly being over.

I’m glad the weekend was summery as well as fun. It made the two days feel like a preview of what summer will be like especially as I didn’t have any planning or marking to do. I must remember to thank ‘last-week Debbie’ for doing all the work in advance so that ‘weekend Debbie’*** could be slothful.

** Probably in me rather than the students but it could be a close race as to who wants the holidays more.

*** In Japan, Matt and I had the habit of thanking or cursing past and future Matt and Debbie. For example, if you forgot to put the laundry on the day before it was the fault of those sneaky ‘past Matt and Debbie’ people. Matt drew an inspirational cartoon family portrait of ‘future Matt and Debbie’ who lived in a big house with grass outside, owned a cat and slept in a bed (not a futon). Whenever I got sick of our crammed apartment and less-than-comfy futons, I could envy ‘future Debbie’ and plot how I would soon make her comfy bed my own.

Of course, now I am ‘future Debbie’ so I can smugly gloat at ‘past Debbie’. Heh heh.

I imagine that ‘Summer holiday future Debbie’ will be the smuggest gloater of all Debbies.