I've just checked the date of my last post....it was almost two weeks ago! I'm very disappointed in myself, but my main excuse is that I think some snotty kid has given me some sort of bug!
I've tried to make a concious effort this new school year to be more active outside of school. I fell into bad habits last year of working, eating and sleeping with very little else in between! The boyfriend and I have allocated Wednesday to each other as an unofficial "date night" - nothing scarily organised but we try to not book anything else on that night so we actually get to spend some quality time together [as a part of our trying to make a go of things again]. But the boyfriend spends at least 3 nights per week at the gym. So I needed something to do in the week myself that would stop me falling back into my bad habits. I could go to the gym...but, ummm, NO!
So I got on Google, and looked for voluntary groups in my local area. I found a weird one called the Ladies Circle, which started as a sister group to the Round Table. I popped along to my first meeting on Tuesday and it was really cool. It was a group of local women who raise some money for local charities and in between arrange one-off social events for entertainment. It sounds really boring, old-fashioned and "pearls and jam-making" but actually it is nothing like that! In fact I'm off rock-climbing in two weeks time, which I'm kind of dreading and looking forward to at the same time!
I think it is going to be good for me on a personal level though. I need to have more contact with people who aren't teachers! Teachers are a weird bunch and we tend to have the same type of heavy political conversations no matter where you put us!
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