Older and slacker

 Well, it seems that having recently turned 27 hasn't not led to being more organised or a more prolific blogger.

I guess I shall have to briefly summarise key events of the last wee while...

1. Birthday - had the PRT course the day before so I didn't have enough time to pressure students into buying gifts. As a result, only presents received were hastily drawn comics/cards and being sung at rather loudly.

Did receive nice pressies from family and firends and such however. Still having to work takes a lot of the pleasure out of the birthday itself. No sleep-in, no slobbing and no energy to party down with your birthday self on the actual day.

2. Staff outing on Friday night. The staff decided to hit Porirua for drinks, bowling and thai food (in the order mostly as it turned out). The school mini-van headed off a little after 5.20 for our adventure. I realised soon after that I NEVER want to drive a minivan full of backseat teacher drivers, especially not when some have already started drinking. The ride was entertaining as humourous anecdotes about staff, both former and current, were shared in a gossipy nostalgic way. Bowling was great - I won in our lane! I only came about 6th out of the whole group but I was pretty happy. The thai restaurant place close to K-mart is actually pretty good - although my judgement may have been a little biased as I was exceedingly hungry by the time we got there.

3. Birthday celebrations in the weekend. Excellent. Went and Saw The Complete Works of Shakespeare which was hugely funny and enjoyable. It is hard to know what my favourite bit was - I really liked the Hamlet and also Oliver Driver in tweed as the academic was pretty cool. "Shakespeare, an actor? Yes. A playwright? Definitely. A poet? Uh-huh. A podiatrist? A little known fact." Then went out for delicious curry goodness.

4. Stage Challenge. The big 4-8pm rehearsal on Sunday. This meant I had to spend most of Sunday in at school as I had to get my reports finished before hand. I finally got to see all the kids in costumes and the flat up with the props and everything. Yay! All the work seems worth it. I can't wait until Friday although I will probably end up deaf and exhausted by the end of it all. The other teacher there with me and myself got to judge the different groups on their chanting and enthusiasm and they can really be loud when they want to be. We then had the joy of locking up the whole school and setting the alarms. It felt very grown-up to be the last people to leave the college but also school is actually quite sinister looking when you are walking around checking darkened buildings and there is noone else around.

5. I became an Aunty! Yep, Matt's sister had a baby on Sunday morning so I am now a first-time Aunty. I'm planning to be the cool and groovy aunty who brings presents and stuff rather than the scary Wodehousian Aunt type. What is really cool is that Matt will have to travel down to Christchurch to see his nephew so he will be "Uncle travelling Matt"! Yay!