We Like to Play Hard & Stick to the Schedule

My time working as an English teacher at a summer school in Cambridge came to an end on Sunday.

The last six weeks provided some rather unique challenges, which included such delights as:

• Preventing children from eating poisonous berries (and sort of failing).
• A 9 year old with a sugar addiction and a propensity for acquiring debt.
• Getting students to come out of their rooms during a fire drill (and failing).
• Chickenpox. A fair amount of chickenpox. Too much chickenpox.
• Identifying the source of a very pungent smell located somewhere in a girl's room.
• Guarding a broken automatic door at midnight to ensure no randoms walked into the building.
• Some intriguing comments from colleagues.
• Noodle hour.
• Students masturbating wherever they deemed fit. Like, in class. 

Yet, despite these things. It was a good time, a great time. A rewarding experience for sure. I was lucky to teach some amazing students and meet some great people over the summer.. There were some excellent performances (see Shakespeare Enters) and also many moments of joy throughout the course. It helped that I worked with some lovely people.

"We know we have a great team, we know we have a lot to learn but still we keep playing"... 

Here's to keeping on playing (but sticking to the schedule).