Back again

Hi. Nearly 2 weeks since I last posted. Been busy but certainly have lots of things I need -or want- to articulate.
1. Mulling over my difficult (16 yo) student… trying to just keep a lid on my reactive responses, until Wednesday, when I am going to a presentation about dealing with challenging behaviours. Hope to [...]

Thursday March 13

Surprised and pleased, to see tonight that the most recent readers of my blog are: 1 in Kuwait, 1 in or near Nannup Western Australia, 1 in Providence Rhode Island (USA) and 1 in Pennfield New Brunswick (Canada).
My Sudanese lady is happier today – her 3rd day in our programme. Yesterday, she came in to say she couldn’t stay, [...]

Confession

Oh! Of course the other reason I haven’t had time to post recently is that I was applying for a couple of other jobs.
But guess what!? I missed submitting them by the deadline, so they couldn’t be considered. Was that fate? Or just carelessness?  :-0
Ho hum…
I quite fancied those jobs, too – although I would [...]

1st weekend of the work year

I didn’t get quite as much done today as I hoped – but enough. It turns out that I have a headcold – it’s no big deal but it’s tiring and irritating.
So today I finished the filing of all the ‘ordinary’ things – although nowhere near as thoroughly and selectively as I had hoped to [...]