Cam’s Ramblings

Things are moving… the economy is slowing down (which is driving petrol prices down, I paid 104.7 yesterday), work is speeding up and Christmas is coming. All of these things point toward one thing… a very frustrating month at work.

I sell school uniforms. I work in a shop which supplies school uniforms to about 12 schools in the local area. We are having a number of special days for each of these schools, where we advertise extra staff and benefits of coming in, to attract people in this side of Christmas. We had our first such day last week, I think I worked about 10 hours non stop. We have another tomorrow, fortunately I am only rostered on for the second half of the day. I am working a total of four of these days, I predict each one will be bigger than the last. But that’s not the point I was aiming to make…

Withparents starting to get serious about their kids uniforms for next year, schools are also very seriously looking at next year (I assume they have been for some time though). As with my teaching position sorted out for next year, I hopefully begin to gain an insight into what actually goes on. The first ‘official’ visit I will have with Kambrya is on Orientation day, 9th December. A day to meet new students, staff and not get lost trying to find my way around. It’s a day I’m looking forward to, because will be the first time I am surrounded by the people and the environment which I will be working in next year.

Before that though I will be calling in to meet with some of the leading teachers, and the obligatory paperwork. I just have to get in touch with Deakin, find out when I can actually supply what I need to supply… as with most administrative tasks at Deakin, I don’t expect this to be easy.

So there you go, things are moving.

(on a side note, I just did a spell check – every time I typed a word starting with wi, it separated those two letters and said it was spelt incorrectly. I should start typing these things in Word, at least I know I’ll get a decent spell check. And I know I need it!)

Last Friday I finished the last part of my uni course, my last teaching round. I now have about three months off in which to relax and get ready for the classroom in 2009. I am spending a week on the Gold Coast soon with a few friends, and then intend to spend a little bit of time around Kambrya getting to know the staff, some of the students and learning more about my role for next year.

So the next few months might be a little bit uneventful… what I am going to do is set up this blog to become a suppliment to my student site which I am going to develop properley once I know what I am teaching next year. But until then, not a lot will probobly happen worthy of comment.

In other news, I have done a very evil thing and joined the dark side….. I got a facebook profile. It’s been a great tool for finding old friends and keeping in touch with uni people as we all disperse our separate ways. Over the next little while I’m going to explore it and find out how I may be able to use it in the classroom.