Snow...

So much snow. I'm sure the locals find it more annoying than i do. I love it. The snow is awesome. It doesn't even feel that cold and it is still pretty easy to get around.
Anyway...  ~Rewind~

New years.
Went into London for the New Year. Had kind of intended to watch the fireworks, ended up meeting a friend and going a random London flat and celebrating the new year with a nice group of Brits, Kiwis and a few Aussies. Watched the fireworks on TV, oh the irony. I did wonder into the center of London later and the aftermath was amazing so in someways i'm glad i wasn't in it.

Sunday 3rd.
Arrived in Milton Keynes. Looked at some flats, choose one i thought would be ok, but someone beat me to it and put a deposit down before i confirmed my interest. Was ok with that though as i wasn't 100% sure about it.

Monday 4th - Teaching day 1.
Arrived at school with no idea what and when i was teaching. Turned out i had just one class around mid-day. Also turned out to be what will probably be my most difficult group. So a disorganised start wasn't the best with them. I will sort them out in time. Had 3 meetings afterschool so didn't get away till 6pm, also didn't get to look at flats.

Tuesday 5th - Day 2 teaching.
Better prepared today, i knew what was coming and what i needed to teach. What i didn't expect was to be hugged... the students of my first class (Y11 GCSE Physics) were so happy to see a new physics teacher that one of the boys appolagized and then hugged me, another girl made me pinky swear that i was there new teacher for the rest of their year. The next class (Y12 GCSE Physics) were just as happy to see me and i was beginning to figure out what was going on. The difficulty is that the teacher who wasn't coping teaching them physics is still at the school as has been helping me take over from her, so it is a little awquard. Anyway. Both classes went really well and the students seem great, so pretty happy about that.
Went flat hunting after work, saw about 4 places, 1 was great, huge room, just a little expensive and a long way to travel to school by bus. So will wait till i see the rest i'm interested in tomorrow.

Wednesday 6th - SNOW DAY!!!!!!!

Massive snow fall over night has closed the school (first sweet thing of the day). So went down to reception to check out local transport etc & chatted to the nice brittish girl. Asked her for a 30 min internet card, she didn't have any so she just gave me a 60  in one and didn't bother to charge it to my room (second sweet thing of the day). Spent some time looking at the flat listings and made a list of about 7 places to check out. Rank the first 3-4 with no luck, the next one though was home and was not to far to walk, so i set out. Wondered through the glorious snow (Photo's will follow when i can load them). The flat turned out to be excellent, good size living space + a double bedroom with an en suite and close enough to work, so i signed the dotted line (sweet thing 3).

So awesome to have a flat and a good one at that. Thank God for the snow day and the time it gave me to find it.
Made my way slowly home after that with a little shopping, made a snow angel and a little snow man, just for kicks (sweet things 4-5).
Got back to the hotel and got the new my bank account was ready (sweet thing 6) & that my new laptop will be arriving Friday (sweet thing 7). Went down to use the hotel internet again, discovered one of the machines was frozen, so rebooted it as you do, when it came on it had 55 minutes of internet on it, so more free internet (sweet thing 8).
All up it was a fantastic day, full of blessings. Not sure what i did to deserve it, but you take what you get.

Today - Thursday.
School is closed again, dangerous conditions of the grounds apparently. This does give me all the time I need to move to the flat etc... So i've checked out. Goodbye Hilton I so enjoyed the bacon and eggs each morning, you will be missed. About to head to my flat now.

Tomorrow i'll travel accross to Birmingham to pick up a little stuff i left there + my computer and camcorder.

Much love to you all, God bless.