Archive for January, 2005

I had the opportunity to attend the Prime Minister’s Question Time at the British Parliament on Wednesday 26th (Australia Day, ironically!). The very hard to come by tickets were arranged for me by my exchange partner who organised them through the local MP, Angela Smith. I attended with another staff member.
We were asked [...]

… when you have a cold! Yes people, I would love to tell you about all the marvellous cultural and historical things I saw on the weekend, but I spent it tucked up on the couch in front of the telly. Frankly weekend television is no more stimulating here than it is in [...]

For the past two weekends I’ve done the tourist thing on London on Saturdays. Last weekend I went to Westminster Abbey, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I was there only about an hour before it was due to close for Evensong, so the crowds were dissipating, and towards the end I was able to [...]

I have been teaching at my new school for just over a week now, although it seems much longer. Starting at a new school is always hard work, but starting in a new country is a whole other kettle of fish!
I was expected to teach the very first two lessons of the day, no [...]

I have discovered Basildon library with free internet… so this is my first UK post, and my initial reactions…
The flight here wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I feared. Long and tedious certainly, but I didn’t get a nasty back ache and got to see a couple of films I had wanted to before [...]