lesson 1 Teaching is like being the host at a party where everyone is sober

Reflective Journal
Star date September 11 2007
Teaching is like being the host at a party where everyone is sober
The first lesson I arrived late, weirdly I arrived early I just had been misinformed about the start date. 9/11 nice start date, seemed to be a bad omen, but then again I don’t believe in that crap however I digress.
The course started with us all designing a t-shirt onto which we drew our interests ,my mind went blank damn I need to invent some cool interests(note to self lie in future abseiling ,extreme ironing p.s surfing is out due to Steves apparent expertise bound to be found out. Seemed an interesting way to get to know a little about each other, seems to help at the very least create some bonds of shared interests (boo hoo I confessed to being as computer nerd I sense impending social isolation
The short treasure hunt was best left unmentioned, maybe a chance to hang with the classmates, lol
Next up the library induction yes I love it I loved it both times I saw it they make it a lively and fun thing. However I’m still faced with a dilemma I looked up stained glass on the online catalogue and as yet they still don’t have any books on the subject, I did order some well I placed an order but as yet they haven’t arrived, so do I have my class inducted or not
Playing on the college computers I looked on the mentioned http://www.intute.ac.uk/ website which had some interesting stained glass links, shame the provided hand out doesn’t appear to have the website address. Took some guess work to find it.
Back to the class room we had a joint task of listing good and bad teaching experiences ah team building skills
Just don’t ask me to catch someone as they fall back am English we don’t do trust
Big piles of paper were thrust my way I seem to be a assignment short. I am sure there was a second one, still it was enough to make my heart pound and my fingers sweat. I wonder if it’s just me freaking from the continual oh you’re doing the teacher training oooh that’s a lot of work that
Sigh