Back to work

Life is good!

It is eaxactly two weeks since I came back home to Spain after a nice summer in Norway. I really enjoyed coming back to Spain again; catching up with friends, enjoying the weather, taking a very intensive course in Spanish (I'm supposed to be an expert on the past tenses now....) and basically just being back where I live my life now.

I want to tell you a bit about life at Aloha College. Monday was the first day back at work, and I really enjoyed not being the new one anymore. Now I know my way around, I know which books I'm supposed to use, I know where the staff room is, where the coffee machine is, I know what Key Stage 3 and all other British National Curriculum terms mean, - basically I am not panicking as much as I did just a year ago when everything was new to me. I am more confident in my job now.

The first day I also got a nice surprise: I was told I have to teach an IB subject called Theory of Knowledge (TOK). This subject is a kind of philosophical subject where the aim is to encourage the students to think outside the box. Develop them into critical thinkers. It is divided into two main areas: ways of knowing and areas of knowing. I am sharing the course with another teacher. I will be teaching the following ways of knowing: language and emotion, and these areas of knowing: the Arts, Ethics and History. It is going to be a cool subject to teach, I think, and I'm looking forward to the challenge! I can draw on a lot of the things I read for my Master studies, and also from teaching Religion og Etikk and IB History at Berg.

So ... the first week at work has been a good week! It was made even better by the fact that my friend Marit visited from Oslo! We had lots of fun. (I will tell you about that in another blog entry.)

I have just been half asleep up by the pool for two hours now (I love Spain!), and will soon head for Fuengirola to enjoy some food and drinks with my best friend in Spain.

Wishing everybody a lovely weekend!!