This week, for the first time in AGES, went by really fast. I feel like I am really making some good progress with my students. They are actually learning things (yay!) and my introduction of reading-for-pleasure lessons is going unexpectedly well. Maybe that weekend away last weekend really did help.
We also had Teacher Appreciation Day at school this week, where the parents bring in snacks and generally make a fuss of us.
We've put the fluffies on a diet this week, since Snowball especially is looking a bit podgy around the middle. We've changed their food schedule, and the amount they are getting. We're also trying to exhaust them into sleeping through the night by playing with them even more than normal. In a search for balls, I had a look under the beds, then decided to look under the sofas too. This is what we found...
That's 27 hair bands in case you were wondering!
On Friday, Matt was out at the Year 13 prom. Andy and Becky came over for dinner on Thursday, and Andy taught Matt how to tie a bowtie.
Saturday night was the British Chamber of Commerce Annual Ball. Our school had two tables booked, and the tickets were given out to the senior leadership team. The theme was the London Underground, and it was either fancy dress or black tie. Everyone went for black tie, except for one group which happened to have Ann from my office in it! She dresses up every year, and this was the fifth year in a row that her group has won best dressed. They were dressed as Piccadilly circus, a group of more than 20 all in circus dress. Ann and her husband were terrifying Victorian style clowns, which I am going to have nightmares about!
The night was really good fun. Some of our students from school were singing and painting scenes from London. There were casino tables, and we were all given 3000RMB in chips. We managed to win 12,000 betting everything on black on roulette, and Matt won an 18 year old bottle of whiskey. So he was a happy bunny. There was also a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label on the table, and a bottle of Baileys! There was a very good live band, and dancing, and a 4 course sit down meal, which included an amazing starter of crab and mango. Then there were fish and chips and mini burgers and sausage rolls at midnight!
It was a really good evening, especially since it only cost us the price of a cab there and back!
It was fun to get dressed up too.
I wore Mum's fabulous salmon-pink dress, and got lots of compliments on it. I was worried about being overdressed, but everyone was in full on black tie, except of course Ann's table.
Today, we are just resting and having a quiet day. It is absolutely hammering it down with rain, and is the perfect day for a movie and a takeaway, with some cat cuddles thrown in for fun. Bliss.
You both scrub up well! And it looks like a lot of fun.
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