My favourite Project 365 photo in awhile. I never really noticed these flowers before, until I was sitting right next to them wondering what today’s photo should be of!

I’ve never done one of these before! I always read them on Kelly’s Korner, but since I don’t have my own home or family, the topics aren’t usually relevant to me! This one was though – even if it did make me realise how boring my week is!

Monday
I wake up at 6:30am to catch the bus by 7:22am. I have class from 9am until around 3pm. My classes today are Maths and P.E. Sometimes I go to to a pub quiz at 7pm with a friend and her family. Our team never really does very well since we’re all women and don’t know much about sport, but it’s fun anyway. My theatre company’s committee also meets once a month on Monday nights.

Tuesday
I wake up at 6:30am to catch the bus by 7:22am. I have class from 9am until around 3pm. My classes today are Literacy Education and ICT. After class I usually go straight home or to the library to finish readings.

Wednesday
I wake up at 6:30am to catch the bus by 7:22am. I have class from 9am until around 3pm. My classes today are Social Sciences and Science. After class I go to tutoring at 4:30 to teach ESOL to two little Korean girls.

Thursday
I wake up at 6:30am to catch the bus by 7:22am. This is my “lazy day” since I only have Social Sciences in the morning!

Friday
I wake up at 6:30am to catch the bus by 7:22am. I have P.I. (Professional Inquiry) all day today, which gets rather full on after awhile! After we finish at 3ish my class seems to have started a tradition of “Future Teacher’s Happy Hour” at the bar on campus. I’m not sure how long this will last once the assignments start piling up, but it was fun this week.

Saturday
Today is my Drama Day. I teach and/or rehearse from 1:30 until around 3ish then stay behind at the studio to discuss stuff with other tutors or to work on things that need working on.

Sunday
This is pretty much my nothing day…or my day to do assignments and uni readings!

In about two weeks my 101 in 1001 will be over. I’m glad I did this, but I’m nowhere near even close to having completed my 101 things!

I want to make another list though, starting it the day after the first round finishes, and have some more realistic, reasonable things on it, as well as re-listing some of the things that are on my first list and which I’d still like to do!

I need some ideas though! Help! What are some interesting, challenging (but not impossible!) things I should add to my 101 things to do in 1001 days!?

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

No, I have not just closed my eyes and banged on the keyboard. This is in fact a word. A word my social sciences class learned to spell this morning, while we were studying Maori language!

For those of you who I KNOW are curious, it is the name of a hill in the North Island of NZ, and apparently translates to something along the lines of “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one.”

Is this not the oddest thing you have ever seen!? Just so you know it’s genuine and not a spoof, here is a picture of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu! Sadly, it is not as spectacular looking as its name led me to hope!

What is the coolest place name you have ever heard?

It really amused some members of my family to hear that I have decided to study education. My family has A LOT of teachers. By “A LOT” I mean that almost half the adults related to me are either currently teaching, or used to…

• My mum
• My mum’s younger sister S.
• My mum’s younger sister M.
• My dad’s younger sister H.
• H.’s husband B.
• My dad’s sister’s partner E.

My mum also has several good friends who she met at TColl when she was 17! E. J., and J. were/are all teachers too! I’ve known these ladies all my life and I was probably ten or eleven years old before I realised that just because I’d grown up referring to them as “Auntie”, they were not actually actually my aunts!

I suppose there’s one advantage of knowing all these teachers! I’ll never be short of someone to turn to for advice! Ha! Thankfully none of them ever taught ME; that would have been a little bit strange, although I do remember mum coming to work at my primary school as a relief (substitute) teacher on the odd occasion when I was very young.

EDIT: My new Twitter name is @ExcitingHolly. I know it’s not showing on the sidebar yet, but I’ll put it up again soon. I think I’ve “re-followed” everyone I had on my list, but please add me if I’ve forgotten you!