No one ever said it was gonna be easy...

Well, that's probably a slightly over-dramatic title but it's the one I have, so let's stick with that!

Still really enjoying my job, even when my lessons don't turn out quite as good as I hope they will - usually because I didn't figure out what I wanted to achieve, so I'm still very much learning on the hoof. My poor students are my guinea pigs, getting the first run of everything and seeing what works and what doesn't. It's very inconsiderate of folks out there that there isn't a resource I can just pick up and use for everything I want to teach. The internet is great for a lot of things, there are loads of resources, but sometimes I've still ended up writing my own because what's out there doesn't do quite what I want it to do. Or it's very centred on a particular culture and that just won't work for the bigger mix of nationalities and ages that make up my students.

I've had a really aggravating conversation with the college that offers the teaching qualification I want to do. I'm currently teaching 3 evenings a week and that course is one evening a week, so I need to confirm which evening so I can adjust the course I'm teaching to fit around it. Except that the other college haven't decided which night it's going to be and won't decide until some time in May. And it could be one of my currently committed evenings or it could be another one. Grrrr.

Anyway, let's change the subject and I'll tell you about the last 5 books I've read:

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I'm currently reading Blood and Mistletoe by Ronald Hutton - which is a history of the Druids in the UK, though he starts with a whole chapter about how we don't really know anything that we can prove. So it's more about what people think about the Druids and how that changes over time to the present day. I'm also reading The Machine God by MeiLin Miranda, which is one of a bunch of steampunk novels set in a shared universe, this one with a black protagonist in a very white University town.