The three of us have been not doing too much due to the thousands of holidays and public holidays (for royal wedding etc) and therefore not much work...devastate ;) I did start at a school as a trial for a contract there until end of July. After the first day I knew I wasn't going to take the contract, maybe just do a few weeks, but then after the second day I was not even thinking of going for a third. A very "interesting" school thats for sure. One of those school days where you wish tasers were legal haha. The kids were from unsupportive backgrounds and it definately showed in the classroom. Teachers are normally paired for support in each class. One teacher's advice to me.....Shout! Not something I have ever been a fan of and after one day of it I was exhausted. A student from another room ran past one of the classrooms and decided to kick down the door off its hinge...as you do. One midget kid told a 6ft South African Teacher that could have squashed him with one toe...that he was a fn d***head and should rot. At one point during my lesson (which apparently they were actually being good for once during) not one out of th 30 of them was listening and I found myself laughing infront of the class just because how unsuccessful my lesson was going...if you don't laugh you would cry. Lesson objectives? Course content? Please this was a job just trying to get kids stay in a classroom. And when you're walking down the street and watch as a mother leans down to her 10 year old and looks him in the eye to tell him to 'Shut his annoying fn mouth' you realise why these kids are the way they are, and how lucky some kids are to have parents that give a s###. Makes me feel sick to my stomach. Anyway after day two I boarded the bus home and watched a kid from the school spit at the bus driver. I picked up my phone and rang my agent to tell him that I had enough, I felt bad but that job would suck the life out of me and my love of teaching. No thanks.
In other news many streets were closed off for Royal wedding street parties! Was awesome to see the buzz in the city, so many people pumped to be involved in some wicked history. Sure there were some anarchists having parties of their own opposing the wedding (yet still they watched it to say how lame it was???), but majority including me were loving life and keen to see her dress. What an amazing day for them and for the country!
Apart from that we get up early on school mornings and get dressed waiting for our call whether it comes or not. Its hectic though because they call fairly late and sometimes give a 30min window for you to get to the school! Lunch is always packed ready to go regardless. I have a girls school lined up tomorrow and since my last experience I am crossing my fingers for girls that are capable of bringing a pen and paper into class...sound like a minimal expectation? You would think so, however I have found that some schools simply provide this for the students....obviously it's too big of an ask! Absolute Bull@#%*
Sorry for the swearing parents.
Love Brods x
PS Security has been elevated post Osama assasination....fantastic
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
A wee Road trip
Our road trip was off to a great start!! Hopped into our little car ready to go...no gps of course we didn't need one of those plus it was an extra 20 pounds a day. First stop was meant to be south of london to Brighton however we were going the opposite direction on the highway and the exits aren't like the m1 at home where every k or so you can cross over and redirect, so Scotland bound we went!! First stop Warwick castle to have a geez. Was pretty cool to see the castle, got some photos and did a type of ghost trip that wasn't super scary but enough that I decided I didn't want to do a real ghost tour. With Lehan and I happily ticking castle of the list we continued on holding our breath that Jared didnt see when we passed another castle sign. First night we stayed in Manchester. We were all fairly tired so after dinner just hit the hay. NB dont order a chicken burger in Manchester, Jared did and we lost it when they laid out a white unbuttered bun with a chicken patty dumped in between, no sauce, nothing.
The next morning we continued up through Leeds, York looking at the baby lambs and lucious grass until the land started to get more hilly the BOOM Scotland we crossed! Crazy that everywhere seems so close! Straight to Edinburgh where we checked into our hostel which was right on the Royal Mile down the road from Edinburgh castle. Ordered haggis for dinner that night (because thats what you have to do in Scotland) and was rather impressed with it!! Another fairly early night as Jareds bid for us to do a ghost tour failed...Lehan and I insisted he should do it by himself. Edinburgh hostel let us down bit. My pillow case smelt of a boys room after a big night so sweaty alcohol nastiness...and a little bit of ass thrown in there (sorry mum) so I put my hood and imagined my sheets were clean and fresh. We shared with 5 others that trickled in during the night... in the style of baby elephanst, turning on lights, charging phones etc etc...no worries there guys cheers, and listening to the drunk dude outside trying to pull the fire extinguisher off the wall while getting warned he will be kicked out. Awesome. So when time came to get up, the three of us with suitcases under our eyes left the building...tired, cranky and a little short tempered ready for our next destination.
Hmmm back down we went destined for Lakes district.... amazing. Jared was caffeined up and drove all the way from edinburgh until we reached Bristol where finally we found a place with vacancy 1 hour and a half later. Bath was next on the cards and a nice little change in weather saw us in our togs chillin in the roof top mineral spa and in the sauna bays...very refreshing. I would have been happy to stay in Bath! After however it was time to spot Stonehenge!!! Too tight to pay for a viewing over the seethrough fence (7 pound cmon) we got some shots of us with Stonehenge in the background...first of Lehan on Jareds shoulders, then me, then Jared on mine....ohhhhh gracious. Lehan was copping abuse from Jared due to her poor camera angle, I was crumbing under the weight and was in hysterics from hearing their argument, a couple walking past laughed at us, and a dude on the 'rich' side of stonehenge fence had stopped to take photos of us claiming we were more entertaining!! haha too funny. Stonehenge, tick.
Beach towns now. Fanged down to Portsmouth and along that line. They definately don't know how to set up their beach towns!!! Buildings were well worn and rusted. No cute little cafes that outlooked onto the beach and no sand!!!! Too spoilt back home thats for sure.
Since we smashed through our roadtrip we thought to save cash money we would head back home so no more money for accomodation had to be paid. Our last night, Jared tucked Lehan and I into our bunk beds for a final nights rest. Was amazing to see the country side but nice to be back to our house. We walked into the house, straight to our rooms, and closed the doors. hahaha.
The next morning we continued up through Leeds, York looking at the baby lambs and lucious grass until the land started to get more hilly the BOOM Scotland we crossed! Crazy that everywhere seems so close! Straight to Edinburgh where we checked into our hostel which was right on the Royal Mile down the road from Edinburgh castle. Ordered haggis for dinner that night (because thats what you have to do in Scotland) and was rather impressed with it!! Another fairly early night as Jareds bid for us to do a ghost tour failed...Lehan and I insisted he should do it by himself. Edinburgh hostel let us down bit. My pillow case smelt of a boys room after a big night so sweaty alcohol nastiness...and a little bit of ass thrown in there (sorry mum) so I put my hood and imagined my sheets were clean and fresh. We shared with 5 others that trickled in during the night... in the style of baby elephanst, turning on lights, charging phones etc etc...no worries there guys cheers, and listening to the drunk dude outside trying to pull the fire extinguisher off the wall while getting warned he will be kicked out. Awesome. So when time came to get up, the three of us with suitcases under our eyes left the building...tired, cranky and a little short tempered ready for our next destination.
Hmmm back down we went destined for Lakes district.... amazing. Jared was caffeined up and drove all the way from edinburgh until we reached Bristol where finally we found a place with vacancy 1 hour and a half later. Bath was next on the cards and a nice little change in weather saw us in our togs chillin in the roof top mineral spa and in the sauna bays...very refreshing. I would have been happy to stay in Bath! After however it was time to spot Stonehenge!!! Too tight to pay for a viewing over the seethrough fence (7 pound cmon) we got some shots of us with Stonehenge in the background...first of Lehan on Jareds shoulders, then me, then Jared on mine....ohhhhh gracious. Lehan was copping abuse from Jared due to her poor camera angle, I was crumbing under the weight and was in hysterics from hearing their argument, a couple walking past laughed at us, and a dude on the 'rich' side of stonehenge fence had stopped to take photos of us claiming we were more entertaining!! haha too funny. Stonehenge, tick.
Beach towns now. Fanged down to Portsmouth and along that line. They definately don't know how to set up their beach towns!!! Buildings were well worn and rusted. No cute little cafes that outlooked onto the beach and no sand!!!! Too spoilt back home thats for sure.
Since we smashed through our roadtrip we thought to save cash money we would head back home so no more money for accomodation had to be paid. Our last night, Jared tucked Lehan and I into our bunk beds for a final nights rest. Was amazing to see the country side but nice to be back to our house. We walked into the house, straight to our rooms, and closed the doors. hahaha.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
You Kay
Monday, April 4, 2011
In Transit in Iceland
New York by the end was way to much hustle and bustle for us. Lehan even misjudged the spinny door thing at our hotel and ran into the glass next to it cracking it all over...funniest thing I have ever seen in my life...lucky nobody from the hotel spotted her cos it woud have been a lot of money to replace.
We were happy to leave for Iceland for a change of scenery. A 5 hour flight landed us in yet another cold country. Straight away we jumped into a cab...without asking how far Rejkavik was away from the airport...$150 later or 16000 krona later we were dropped out our hotel with warm welcoming staff who must have seen our jetlagged faces and offered a free breaky (even though we weren't able to check in) which started our Iceland experience off nicely.
We hung in the lobby for an hour or so, trying to push through the fact we were running on 2 hours sleep max...eventually one of hotel employers once again must have felt sorry for us and found us a room to check into super early! So we slept for a while before venturing out into the capital which uses 99% renewable energy...unreal.
The streets all paved with beautiful stone, the place was tidy and laid back. The people were super friendly and looked like they had all walked out of a magazine....stunning. It was only one day we had there but a day well worth it. A very pretty place that I'm stoked we got to see. Now in London sorting out my life once again....house, phone, bike, job etc etc. Back to square one.
We were happy to leave for Iceland for a change of scenery. A 5 hour flight landed us in yet another cold country. Straight away we jumped into a cab...without asking how far Rejkavik was away from the airport...$150 later or 16000 krona later we were dropped out our hotel with warm welcoming staff who must have seen our jetlagged faces and offered a free breaky (even though we weren't able to check in) which started our Iceland experience off nicely.
We hung in the lobby for an hour or so, trying to push through the fact we were running on 2 hours sleep max...eventually one of hotel employers once again must have felt sorry for us and found us a room to check into super early! So we slept for a while before venturing out into the capital which uses 99% renewable energy...unreal.
The streets all paved with beautiful stone, the place was tidy and laid back. The people were super friendly and looked like they had all walked out of a magazine....stunning. It was only one day we had there but a day well worth it. A very pretty place that I'm stoked we got to see. Now in London sorting out my life once again....house, phone, bike, job etc etc. Back to square one.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
New York Cityyyyy
New York was not a warm welcome! The three of us were tired, cranky and just wanted to rock up to our hotel and sleep...this was not the case. We got to our hotel after a long cab ride from the airport, lugged our stuff into the lobby and handed the service dude our confirmation for the ten days....hmmmmm. Apparently our confirmed paid booking wasn't at all...they had no room for us!!!! We had to carry all our stuff up the road in the early hours of the morning to another hotel!!! Unimpressed. After a sleepless night we decided to find somewhere else to stay...found a place that looked ok online so we put a deposit on it, packed our stuff and went to that place. It would have been fine to stay at if we wanted to be killed and thrown in a dumpster out the back...hideous, rubbish everywhere! doors that didnt close and a crazy cat women who ran the place!!! no thanks. So angry tired Brodie came out (the worst one) we marched right back into our original hotel and demanded they sort out the accomodation situation as we couldn't see how we could be at fault for their incompetence....they sorted it out. They found a room and ordered in a fold out bed to accomodate us. However, after another sleepless night due to a pipe making crazy sporadic noises during the night...Super tired and Angry Brodie was OVER IT! Lehan found another hotel closer to Times Square, I demanded a refund for the rest of the stay we were meant to have and they also refunded our first night money....IDIOTS. NYC beginnings made me homesick, it had some redeeming to do. And it did.
Its not the sightseeing here that I enjoy, its the random experiences that you don't expect. Statue of Liberty? Whatever. Hitting the Laundromat to do laundy?? Awesome. Seeing spring training baseball...freaking sweet! Broadway musicals...loving life. We have been walking everywhere and you accidently run into funky little restaurants, markets selling local arts and foods, Little Italy, Chinatown, NY crazies with yellow rats climbing on the shoulder and a bearded man dressed in a tropical dress with his hair sprayed green. There is such a diverse range of delicious foods here...and of course thousands of places selling pizza and hot dogs. Cabs are super cheap and super easy to catch...just like the movies.
Last night was one of the funnest night we have had. We saw miami horror in Brooklyn. After a few free poured Vodkas (the bartender just pours both vodka and juice in simultaneously...you'd be arrested for serving drinks that potent back home) dancing shoes were onnnn. Apparently Americans dont dance at gigs so it was pretty much the 5 of us jumping around in the crowd. Best of all Lehan and I got to dance on stage at the end and then sing with the main dude!!! He must have noticed our beautiful singing voices. So much fun..then back into town with a maccas adventure where we ate some delicious cheeseburgers and met an Irish dude who told us there is no potatoes left in Ireland.
Still have a few days left where we are gonna hit up the markets in Greenwich again and I might see Phantom of the Opera. The Lion King was amazing and Mary Poppins Brilliant. So for now New York has well and truly redeemed itself, shopping is crazy cheap and I am not so homesick like I was on the first few days :)
Will put some photos up in the next few days.
Love Brods
Its not the sightseeing here that I enjoy, its the random experiences that you don't expect. Statue of Liberty? Whatever. Hitting the Laundromat to do laundy?? Awesome. Seeing spring training baseball...freaking sweet! Broadway musicals...loving life. We have been walking everywhere and you accidently run into funky little restaurants, markets selling local arts and foods, Little Italy, Chinatown, NY crazies with yellow rats climbing on the shoulder and a bearded man dressed in a tropical dress with his hair sprayed green. There is such a diverse range of delicious foods here...and of course thousands of places selling pizza and hot dogs. Cabs are super cheap and super easy to catch...just like the movies.
Last night was one of the funnest night we have had. We saw miami horror in Brooklyn. After a few free poured Vodkas (the bartender just pours both vodka and juice in simultaneously...you'd be arrested for serving drinks that potent back home) dancing shoes were onnnn. Apparently Americans dont dance at gigs so it was pretty much the 5 of us jumping around in the crowd. Best of all Lehan and I got to dance on stage at the end and then sing with the main dude!!! He must have noticed our beautiful singing voices. So much fun..then back into town with a maccas adventure where we ate some delicious cheeseburgers and met an Irish dude who told us there is no potatoes left in Ireland.
Still have a few days left where we are gonna hit up the markets in Greenwich again and I might see Phantom of the Opera. The Lion King was amazing and Mary Poppins Brilliant. So for now New York has well and truly redeemed itself, shopping is crazy cheap and I am not so homesick like I was on the first few days :)
Will put some photos up in the next few days.
Love Brods
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