These days

So it's monday and that means business as usual again.

Today the kids saw an opportunity in switching from winter time to summer time and managed to sneak the clock forwards with almost ten minutes. Sadly for them i once again noticed their mishievous plan and as the lessons end loomed closer i kept on insisting that what we were doing was so important they just had to finnish it before they could go out (all the while i secretly kept track on what the time actually was with my wrist watch). My pupils, being reliable and hard working as always, kept with it (most probalbly just so they wouldn't be caught) and only when the watch showed ten past the actual time for the break to start i told them they could go out. Of course this was where they thought they'd be able to cut some slack with their little trick since the first attempt failed. So they decided to ask if they'd get a longer break. My answer was simple and short, a no. After a few disappointed shouts (they're really good actors i tells ya), and failed attempts from them to argue for a longer break, i looked at them and asked them if they really thought I never tried to fiddle with a school clock to trick the teacher into giving a longer break.

Every time they try to trick me with something like that it just makes me smile. The way the whole group plays together just to make something work is great. No one ever blows their cover just to be the teachers pet (they do know that's a sure way to make me mad as hell) and no one ever blames someone else for messing something up. They really did earn their party on wednesday.

The afternoon in turn went by really slowly and nicely, after tossing a friend home while fetching the girl from her driving lesson. I really don't remember a monday this great in ages. The reason is simple though, we just spent the whole evening together with Jonna, enjoying good food and snacks and just generally not giving a damn about everything called school and work and instead just taking it easy, real easy.

On this weeks to-do list is writing up a test, writing an angry letter to the main kitchen (which is at another school altogether), send in my school and job applications and help out with a little bit of english. That's pretty much it.

Good night and good luck!