Teaching Survival and Outlander

I have almost made it to the end of the first week of summer school. I crawled home and celebrated with Outlander and something terrible for me to eat. Though these days I seem to have more energy than the kids, I am still wreckage. There is a black hole where my capacity to put up with nonsense used to be.

I can't remember how many times I repeated the word no, but I know eventually I got my way. I teach a lot more with the imperative, forget to be polite, and it tends to work. This is the complete opposite of how I used to be at the beginning of my teaching career, I have developed a lot, and it shows to me now.

We reflected today on how once when we were younger, we were at the cutting edge of culture, expert in all things new, and now, as teachers, we are the expert in trying to keep the body stimulated to get to the end.

Thankfully Outlander has improved immensely from the first episode, where the constant self reflective monologue, nearly drove me to distraction. Even the theme tune is more or less growing on me, though I still think there was no need to murder the Skye Boat song with a remake. I loved the Skye Boat song as a child, and played it over and over on my recorder. Why couldn't it have been left alone? I can't understand the need to change something already so beautiful?? Perhaps I am growing inflexible with age...

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