warning: not very related to work at all!
Well what a weird couple of days...
I was feeling quite ill on Saturday, and hadn't really been feeling too happy the whole week. I was just generally fed up with everyone and everything, wanting to travel and get out of this crappy little town and sick of teachers not telling us anything*. So Saturday I didn’t eat much at all because of my stomach ache, and decided to go out that night down to town. All I can say is BIGGG mistake. Drinking on an empty stomach, with blood sugar levels going everywhere is never a good idea. I won’t go into details, because putting that on the internet is never a good idea, but I woke up the next morning with no recollection of the night before, bruises and cuts all over my body and hypo at 3mmOl. I then spent the whole of Sunday curled around the toilet, head in the bowl and glasses of water around my feet. I didn’t give myself any insulin as I was hypo all day, and I am petrified of having another bad hypo. I had a horrible one last year when I couldn't move or speak, and one this year whoch was pretty much the same, and I am terrified of it happening again!
Monday morning I woke up and felt disgusting. Shaky, weak, nauseous, light headed. All the symptoms of high ketones but I really wasn’t thinking straight. Illife came into the staffroom to check our timetables to make sure everything was covered this week (it’s just me and Em because Rose and Izzy are on camp with the IVs) and immediately was like 'Ok, you're not well, what's up'. To cut a long story short, I ended up going down to the doctors around lunchtime, where he did some tests, told me that my ketones were through the roof and advised me 'extremely strongly' to go to hospital. So I spent my Monday afternoon and evening in Wycombe A&E on a drip, in a wheelchair parked next to the triage...whoo, joys of diabetes. I am 100% ready for a pump when I get back, I'm so sick of trying to work out basal and fast acting and screwing up my whole day if I get it wrong. Artifical pancreas here I come...
I came down to work the next day, feeling at about 75%, but keen to work because otherwise I would have been bored in bed the entire day, and they needed me. I had a discussion with Iliffe which reminded me very strongly of the discussions I used to have with Mum last year...
'Georgie, go back to bed, you're not well'
'I have to go to school, I have a SAC'
'The SAC can wait, you look like death'
'YOU CAN'T STOP ME!'
I hate being mollycoddled, so I assured her I was OK for work, so spent Tuesday doing all my usual jobs apart from Kindergarten swimming. Haha, speaking of, they were using noodles in the lesson...you know the big long polystyrene things? They call them 'woddles'. J. asked me to collect them up and I had noo idea what she was on about. Woddles?! That's not even a word!
Today I'm at 100%, work has been fine. Somehow all the teachers know that I've been 'poorly' and have been concerned, which is really nice! One of the girls asked me today 'Miss Peters, why is your hair so frizzy today?'...kids have no bounds. Finally finished this massive profject I've been working on for the French department, SUCH a relief. If I have to laminate one more thing I will put myself through the laminator. Did some filing today while chatting to one of Iliffe's daughters who was helping out, which was lovely. There is a bit of a gymnastics craze going on in the Lower Division at the moment, so duties are spent helping girls with backwards walkovers, backbends, handstands etc. Stupidly I did the splits for some of them a couple of weeks ago (let's be honest, I'm a showoff and enjoyed the cries of 'but you're so OLD, how can you do that?) so I'm being asked to WATCH THIS MISS P!! every 5 seconds. It's very cute though!
It's Em's birthday today, so I'm off upstairs to get the cake ready, food out and put a movie on. Yay! 2 weeks until summer holidays, thank god!! 75% of things are booked, payday is on Saturday so the rest will be booked by the weekend. 2 months of travel, here I come!! I'll get the blogspot app on my ipod so I can blog and upload via wireless. Otherwise my family might disown me :)
*It’s so annoying. If a swimming/sport/whatever is cancelled, none of the teachers think of telling us, so we’re running around trying to suss out whether we have to re-organise rosters, where our class is etc. SO frustrating.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
South of England show and Aisling's birthday
On Saturday Rose and I went into the South of England show with the boarders. Aisling, Izzy and Em stayed at home and relaxed/cleaned. Being teaching gaps, we were both given IVs to look after for the day, which was fantastic because the IVs are my favourite year level (shhh). The older the better. If I don't have to tell them to stop picking their nose, I'm happy...
After an hour long bus ride, sitting next to P. (Form 1) who played hangman and waterslide on my ipod the entire way up (she beat Hannah's high score, better start practicing Han), we arrived and got split into two initial groups, to be taken around by a tour guide. I wouldn't have been suprised if the guide had been 100, he was so old and doddery and insisted on showing us a 'very exciting' cow judging. From the back. So essentially we spent 15 minutes looking at cows bums. Lovely. I felt like I was on a school excursion for that part of the day, my group kept asking me things like 'Miss Petersssss, can't we just, like, fall off the back and get lost. He's so boringggg'. I couldn't exactly disagree with them, as he was as boring as cows poo, so we had a little countdown system going until it hit 12.30 and we could bail. To be fair, he did take us inside the cow, sheep and pig sheds, where the girls got treated to talks about the different types etc, but try making 13 year olds interested in different types of Jersey cows....hell, I'm not even interested. We all know I'm not a country girl.
The show was very English...lots of posh men walking around with bowlers, carrying canes, talking about heifers and sows. The horse show was very posh - lots of polite clapping and cries of 'Oh, well DONE'. I feel like I was in an Enid Blyton book again.
As soon as lunch had finished, David said 'Alright girls, you can go' and my group and I were off like a shot. Everyone else was still getting up and we literally ran hahaha. For the next couple of hours we walked around, looking at the horses, dogs, food and spending quite a bit of time in the sweet section. It was quite nice with just the four Ivs and me - A, I, E and C. We had a great time, chatted heaps. Just before we were due to meet up with everyone else, we all got an icecream and I did my blood test as usual. They were so interested in it - they're not on my breakfast table so they have never seen me inject or anything. It was really nice, they kept asking questions and were so nice about it. Makes a lovely change from Highlands girls screaming 'EW' and jumping 10ft in the air. That's another reason I love the older ones!
The bus ride back went quite quickly. I sat next to J and I, two IVS, and J and I sang Hairspray, Glee and Wicked the whole way back. I am such a dork. That night we were exhausted, and I headed over to Turner House to watch a movie with Janet and the girls before heading back to the flat and preparing for Aisling's birthday :)
Rose and I woke Aisling up that morning...by wearing Darren Criss masks and singing 'Ginny'. I'm glad to say she loved it! That day, after she had skyped her family and we had watched our weekly Sunday morning F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode, we headed down to town to go shopping, have lunch and see a movie. I'm hanging out for after summer, when I don't have to worry about saving and we can go crazy in topshop. We didn't go in - it was too depressing because we can't afford any of it :) We saw 'Diary of a wimpy kid', which was actually hilarious. We were the only people in the cinema who were not at primary school or parents, but that's beside the point. Very very funny. Rose and I had bought Aisling a Disney princess cake, so up at the flat while the others were watching Anastasia we sneakily put some candles in and sang her a very loud happy birthday and did presents :)
(Aisling later found out that one of the girls in Lodge had the same cake as her for her birthday. This girl is five. We regret nothing)
This week is going by quite quickly. Sports day is coming up, which should be interesting. Three weeks exactly until the school year is over and we're on summer holidays!!. And you know what I realised today? 6 months exactly until I'm at Heathrow catching a plane back to Melbourne. I wanted to cry when I realised this - I don't want to leave! Must I really go to uni?
After an hour long bus ride, sitting next to P. (Form 1) who played hangman and waterslide on my ipod the entire way up (she beat Hannah's high score, better start practicing Han), we arrived and got split into two initial groups, to be taken around by a tour guide. I wouldn't have been suprised if the guide had been 100, he was so old and doddery and insisted on showing us a 'very exciting' cow judging. From the back. So essentially we spent 15 minutes looking at cows bums. Lovely. I felt like I was on a school excursion for that part of the day, my group kept asking me things like 'Miss Petersssss, can't we just, like, fall off the back and get lost. He's so boringggg'. I couldn't exactly disagree with them, as he was as boring as cows poo, so we had a little countdown system going until it hit 12.30 and we could bail. To be fair, he did take us inside the cow, sheep and pig sheds, where the girls got treated to talks about the different types etc, but try making 13 year olds interested in different types of Jersey cows....hell, I'm not even interested. We all know I'm not a country girl.
The show was very English...lots of posh men walking around with bowlers, carrying canes, talking about heifers and sows. The horse show was very posh - lots of polite clapping and cries of 'Oh, well DONE'. I feel like I was in an Enid Blyton book again.
As soon as lunch had finished, David said 'Alright girls, you can go' and my group and I were off like a shot. Everyone else was still getting up and we literally ran hahaha. For the next couple of hours we walked around, looking at the horses, dogs, food and spending quite a bit of time in the sweet section. It was quite nice with just the four Ivs and me - A, I, E and C. We had a great time, chatted heaps. Just before we were due to meet up with everyone else, we all got an icecream and I did my blood test as usual. They were so interested in it - they're not on my breakfast table so they have never seen me inject or anything. It was really nice, they kept asking questions and were so nice about it. Makes a lovely change from Highlands girls screaming 'EW' and jumping 10ft in the air. That's another reason I love the older ones!
The bus ride back went quite quickly. I sat next to J and I, two IVS, and J and I sang Hairspray, Glee and Wicked the whole way back. I am such a dork. That night we were exhausted, and I headed over to Turner House to watch a movie with Janet and the girls before heading back to the flat and preparing for Aisling's birthday :)
Rose and I woke Aisling up that morning...by wearing Darren Criss masks and singing 'Ginny'. I'm glad to say she loved it! That day, after she had skyped her family and we had watched our weekly Sunday morning F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode, we headed down to town to go shopping, have lunch and see a movie. I'm hanging out for after summer, when I don't have to worry about saving and we can go crazy in topshop. We didn't go in - it was too depressing because we can't afford any of it :) We saw 'Diary of a wimpy kid', which was actually hilarious. We were the only people in the cinema who were not at primary school or parents, but that's beside the point. Very very funny. Rose and I had bought Aisling a Disney princess cake, so up at the flat while the others were watching Anastasia we sneakily put some candles in and sang her a very loud happy birthday and did presents :)
(Aisling later found out that one of the girls in Lodge had the same cake as her for her birthday. This girl is five. We regret nothing)
This week is going by quite quickly. Sports day is coming up, which should be interesting. Three weeks exactly until the school year is over and we're on summer holidays!!. And you know what I realised today? 6 months exactly until I'm at Heathrow catching a plane back to Melbourne. I wanted to cry when I realised this - I don't want to leave! Must I really go to uni?
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I'm a slacker
I WILL BLOG SKERN LODGE when i can find wireless internet.
I've been such a slacker, many apologies. I always feel like blogging when I shouldn't (at work), then when I'm able to blog I only want to collapse in front of the TV.
We're on the last couple of weeks before summer now. On the weekend, Rose and I spent a whole day in London, just because we felt like it. We headed in early, and had brunch in Leicester Square before heading to Pineapple Dance to do a couple of classes.
A couple of weeks ago I had done the intermediate contemporary class, and managed fine, so I thought that we would be ok with an intermediate jazz. SO MISTAKEN. There were so many turns in there (I suck at turns. Leaps and flexible stuff I'm fine, tell me to do a double pirouette and I will die), and we got so stressed we both mucked up a really simple pas de bouree-pirouette-layout combination. It was one of those dances which I could have gotten down pat with an extra hour, but dear god I was struggling! We walked out of that class, grateful that we weren't the worst, but feeling like crap anyway. This kid, who would have been 9 at the most, was amazing and was at the front of the class the entire time, breaking it down and casually doing triple pirouettes left right and centre. Bitch.
BUT, our next class was musical theatre, which was so much fun. Good warmup, great dance. Not too hard, but not ridiculously easy. We danced to 'The Dark I Know Well' from Spring Awakenings, so it was an unexpectedly deep musical theatre class! No tits and teeth, more slapping the ground, heads in hands, backbendy stuff. :) Yay deep!
After a very refreshing shower we had lunch at a little cafe in Soho, and killed some time at the National Portrait Gallery, until we started to walk down Charing Cross Road, to hit Oxford St and eventually the Palladium Theatre, which was where we were going to see 'The Wizard of Oz'. W ehad wanted to see a ballet, but all the cheap tickets were sold out :( It was fantastic, we got relatively cheap seats, and did a sneaky seat change when the people in front of us failed to turn up, so we got better seats than expected! Was really good, the Wicked Witch of the West still scares me after all these years. The lead (Susan Hope) also looked like a cross between Kelly McInnes-Smith and Emma Hoy, which I found a little weird haha! We arrived home happy, with empty wallets and singing 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road'.
This week? I had gym, like usual, with Kindergarten. They're starting beam, which was very exciting. I'm a nazi when it comes to pointed toes, none of these six year olds could get past me with lazy feet. The kids have been really affectionate this week, there have been hugs left right and centre! P. was so funny this morning, we were doing the quiz and Sue asked 'Which terrorist was recently killed?' and P. shouts BARACK OBAMA! Sue and I were nearly on the floor in hysterics, the girls had no idea why we found it so funny haha. P. comes out with the funniest things. We were playing rounders and she yells 'RUN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN!!!' at the others. We had to tell her off while laughing, she is priceless. The IVs are starting to freak out about leaving so soon, and just quietly Janet and I are freaking out too - I love the IVs, the school will be so different without them! The graduation dinner is tomorrow night, which means I have to dress up, put makeup on, wax my legs...ew. Living and working with just girls has turned me into a lazy fat cow! I barely brush my hair anymore haha. There has been heaps of admin to do because the end of term is coming and the teachers are busy with reports, so we're getting all the dud jobs atm. Makes summer that much more exciting I guess!
Have completely booked my tour, Santorini with Kate and flights. WOOOOO. So excited for Santorini, donkey rides over ancient ruins and scootering through old towns - heaven. Just need to do accomodation and some trains. Speaking of booking, booked my flights home today! I leave here on the 14th of december at 9pm, and arrive in Melbourne on the 16th at 9am. Put that in your diaries, I expect balloons, banners and a marching band. Not really. Just your beautiful faces.
I've been such a slacker, many apologies. I always feel like blogging when I shouldn't (at work), then when I'm able to blog I only want to collapse in front of the TV.
We're on the last couple of weeks before summer now. On the weekend, Rose and I spent a whole day in London, just because we felt like it. We headed in early, and had brunch in Leicester Square before heading to Pineapple Dance to do a couple of classes.
A couple of weeks ago I had done the intermediate contemporary class, and managed fine, so I thought that we would be ok with an intermediate jazz. SO MISTAKEN. There were so many turns in there (I suck at turns. Leaps and flexible stuff I'm fine, tell me to do a double pirouette and I will die), and we got so stressed we both mucked up a really simple pas de bouree-pirouette-layout combination. It was one of those dances which I could have gotten down pat with an extra hour, but dear god I was struggling! We walked out of that class, grateful that we weren't the worst, but feeling like crap anyway. This kid, who would have been 9 at the most, was amazing and was at the front of the class the entire time, breaking it down and casually doing triple pirouettes left right and centre. Bitch.
BUT, our next class was musical theatre, which was so much fun. Good warmup, great dance. Not too hard, but not ridiculously easy. We danced to 'The Dark I Know Well' from Spring Awakenings, so it was an unexpectedly deep musical theatre class! No tits and teeth, more slapping the ground, heads in hands, backbendy stuff. :) Yay deep!
After a very refreshing shower we had lunch at a little cafe in Soho, and killed some time at the National Portrait Gallery, until we started to walk down Charing Cross Road, to hit Oxford St and eventually the Palladium Theatre, which was where we were going to see 'The Wizard of Oz'. W ehad wanted to see a ballet, but all the cheap tickets were sold out :( It was fantastic, we got relatively cheap seats, and did a sneaky seat change when the people in front of us failed to turn up, so we got better seats than expected! Was really good, the Wicked Witch of the West still scares me after all these years. The lead (Susan Hope) also looked like a cross between Kelly McInnes-Smith and Emma Hoy, which I found a little weird haha! We arrived home happy, with empty wallets and singing 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road'.
This week? I had gym, like usual, with Kindergarten. They're starting beam, which was very exciting. I'm a nazi when it comes to pointed toes, none of these six year olds could get past me with lazy feet. The kids have been really affectionate this week, there have been hugs left right and centre! P. was so funny this morning, we were doing the quiz and Sue asked 'Which terrorist was recently killed?' and P. shouts BARACK OBAMA! Sue and I were nearly on the floor in hysterics, the girls had no idea why we found it so funny haha. P. comes out with the funniest things. We were playing rounders and she yells 'RUN, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN!!!' at the others. We had to tell her off while laughing, she is priceless. The IVs are starting to freak out about leaving so soon, and just quietly Janet and I are freaking out too - I love the IVs, the school will be so different without them! The graduation dinner is tomorrow night, which means I have to dress up, put makeup on, wax my legs...ew. Living and working with just girls has turned me into a lazy fat cow! I barely brush my hair anymore haha. There has been heaps of admin to do because the end of term is coming and the teachers are busy with reports, so we're getting all the dud jobs atm. Makes summer that much more exciting I guess!
Have completely booked my tour, Santorini with Kate and flights. WOOOOO. So excited for Santorini, donkey rides over ancient ruins and scootering through old towns - heaven. Just need to do accomodation and some trains. Speaking of booking, booked my flights home today! I leave here on the 14th of december at 9pm, and arrive in Melbourne on the 16th at 9am. Put that in your diaries, I expect balloons, banners and a marching band. Not really. Just your beautiful faces.
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