May the earth open up and swallow me

Stardate last lesson before Christmas
May the earth open up and swallow me
Bad does describe how my first mentor inspected session went. I don’t entirely blame myself for the disasters it was just one of those things I think. Starting at the beginning I arrived in plenty of time for the session collected the projector id booked in advance for the session, I’m good with pc’s a regular nerd iv had my laptop plugged into displays of all varieties and never had any trouble. But I plug this projector into my laptop and it all goes haywire, effectively killing it dead. I still fully don’t understand what happened to it but it wouldn’t even boot in safe mode it somehow destroyed the master boot section of the laptop, forcing me to have to undertake a lengthy repair session. This put me in a good mood for the session. I have mentioned previously that the week before Xmas isn’t perhaps the best time to commence a new course. But this was only the least of it we had been informed that classes with less those 13 learners would be closed. Learners not enrolled on the system should be asked to leave. Week one and the college enrolment system is offline. Learners had been arriving attempting to enrol and were being turned away; really slick. What was I to do if I follow the instructions given? My course would close, I would not have enough hours for the pgde and these people hade made the effort to come it wasn’t our faults so I proceeded with the lesson. My nicely crafted power point had gone out the window forcing me to adlib .But as I was just getting into the wring of thing a learner came into the class announcing that “I’m not paying thirty quid for a fucking exam I don’t want to do, I could buy a grinder for that I’m going home” well believe it or not this threw me but I decided against the traditional policy of arguing the point and let him leave and got on with the session. Weirdly this little outburst brought about a strange bonding session with the group and everyone relaxed into the session well and the tasks were completed. Part way through the session the woman from the office came in and asked I we were running the following week I told her we were. She informed me that we would be the only people in the building and would need to remain open especially for us. I asked the group who would be attending. From the 10 walking wounded remaining three would be coming due Christmas commitments, so we resolved to bump the lesson till after the holidays and she informed me she would make the necessary arrangements. This weirdly helps me as many of the explained absences should have returned by the 9th and will ultimately help the retention figures. Once we knew their was going to be this unexpected break in the session the returning learners were able to continue existing project and the new learner I assisted in completing a festive sun catcher project that she admirably completed within the session and should be festively decorating her Xmas tree as we speak.