In and Out of School - First week

So as you might imagine, there's been loooooaaaads going on and I am still not fully accustomed to my schedule here...mostly because it's not fully fixed yet and I work on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis.
School officially started on Monday, September 3rd, but our girls at PHC would arrive in chunks of variable sizes starting Tuesday afternoon and not having ended yet.
Working in the boarding house means for me mostly that I had to get into a daily routine of waking up between 6:45 and 9am (depending on the weekday or if I was on duty) and going to my room/to bed no earlier than 11pm each day.
Now put in the hours in which I have to teach German during the day, and sometimes it amasses to quite long hours for just one day.
As said, I still need to get used to this because, let's face it, I've never really had to work full time before.
So if you who have done this already would leave me some tips on how to get used to an 8 to 10-hour day, please let me know! ;)

Thankfully though, I got to spend quite a lot of my free time already in the woods and fields around PHC and must say, although most of you might well know this already, the English countryside is BEAUTIFUL!!!

Having forgotten my trainers at home, I am now forced to walk about very slowly but can this way explore nature close-up with my camera :)

 And sometimes you might even find - behind some high trees or bushes - that "there's something there that wasn't there before" (or at least nothing you were aware of)
(and now if you know where the quote comes from, that's really good :p)

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Coming back from a walk always means coming back to life at PHC, which for one hand is
GOOD because you're never alone
and for the other hand it is also
BAD because you're never alone ;)

However, the girls here are mostly very great and wonderful to live with, but it takes some getting used to here as well that they are always around now. It reminds me a lot of the language schools in Teignmouth and Chichester, but there you were never actually there for longer than 3 weeks in a row.
I guess I will just have to "Keep calm and carry on" (and definitely buy a mug that has this popular English quote on it).

Then again, boarding duties also include going on trips at the weekends, like just last Saturday to Thorpe Park near Heathrow:

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German-class-wise, I am enjoying myself with all year groups so far and even got to teach almost one full class on my own today with Year 7s :)


Rain check! :)

xxx