Stuck in my mind…

I feel quite emotional at the moment and my head is spinning with thoughts that I shouldn’t even be thinking about but nothing I seem to do can get them out of my head. I can’t think of anything else and I don’t really know why my mind is stuck like glue on this one thing. I figured that having a nap would get rid of it but when I woke up I went into auto-pilot and started thinking about it again. Of course, I’m not actually going to tell you what I’m thinking about because I’m not really prepared for some people to read about it. However, I will say that I may just be being silly or insecure and trying to grow up too fast.

P.s. Stephen got onto the ‘Learn as you Earn’ scheme!!

College Timetable

Thanks for all the lovely comments about my new tattoo, I’m glad everyone likes it as much as I do

Yesterday and today were my induction days at college for the new childcare course that I’m going to be doing starting Monday. I’m already liking the people on the course more than I did on my last course and there’s two people in particular that I’ve been getting on really well with, Georgie and Madeline. They’re both lovely but I’ve only known them for 2 days so far so hopefully when I get to know them better I’ll still like them, I’m sure I will though because they really are sweet.

I have a great timetable this year as well.

Monday:
9am - 11am > Unit 3 (Supporting Children)
11:15am - 12:30pm > Unit 5 (The Principles Underpinning the Role of the Practitioner)
13:15pm - 15:15pm > Unit 4 (Keeping Children Safe)
15:30pm - 4:30pm > Tutorial

Tuesday:
9am - 11am > SDS (Self Directed Study)
11:15am - 12:30pm > Unit 3 (Supporting Children)
13:15pm - 15:15pm > Workshop
15:30pm - 4:30pm > ICT

Wednesday:
9am - 11am > Unit 2 (Development from Conception to Age 16 Years)
11:15am - 12:30pm > Unit 1 (An Introduction to Working with Children)
13:15pm - 15:15pm > SDS (Self Directed Study)
15:30pm - 4:30pm > SDS (Self Directed Study)

Thursday:
9am - 3:30/4:30pm > Placement in a Nursery or Primary School

Friday:
9am - 3:30/4:30pm > Placement in a Nursery or Primary School

We do 9 core units in total over the 2 years and 3 optional units. 6 core units in the first year plus one optional unit and 3 core units in the second year plus 2 optional units. Honestly, I’m quite excited about it right now.

Imagine…

I think this is the simplest layout that I’ve ever put on the internet. It’s a lot more ‘messy’ (although I’m not sure that’s the right word) than my last layout, which if I’m honest is great. I get bored of clean looking layouts so quickly but I did well to keep the last layout up for 2 months. I’m not sure how long this one will last but that all depends on how quickly I get sick of it and whether I have any idea’s floating around my head for layouts at the time. So, I hope everyone likes the new layout. If there’s anything you’d like to suggest that I could add to it then suggest away! Anyway, enough said about that.

Perhaps I should tell you all about my wild imagination and how it makes me the geekiest person on earth and how I even got a tattoo on the back of my neck last week saying imagine. Everyone’s always asking “imagine what?” to which my usual reply is “everything, I have a big imagination and that’s why I wanted this tattoo, my imagination’s very important to me”. But for now, I’m not going to tell you all about my imagination, I’m just going to leave you with a photo of my scabby tattoo that looks slanted (even though it’s not) because it’s incredibly hard to take a photo of the back of your neck.

Work or college? College…

I got asked at work to do Maternity cover early this week but I turned it down because even though I’d love to work at the nursery for longer, I also really wanted to go back to college and do my CACHE Award, Certificate and Diploma Level 3 in Childcare and Education. I emailed one of my old tutors from college a few days ago and asked if she knew if there were any spaces available on the course. Turns out there was so I went up to the college today to enroll. I had been going back and forth in my mind trying to decide what I wanted to do but I think I made the right choice by going back to college in the end.

Stephen is applying for a ‘Learn as you Earn’ scheme where he works full time and then goes to university one day a week, which his work would pay for. He should find out whether he’s got it sometime next month, I’m really hoping he does.

Someone at work has been annoying the hell out of me. She’s a temp as well and supposedly a level 3 but she’s just useless to be honest. She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing and doesn’t ask anyone anything that she’s unsure about. She took an ill baby to the sleepers room yesterday, shoved her in her cot and left her there. She didn’t even wait until the baby was asleep and the baby could have woken the other children up or even hurt herself. She was also changing terry toweling nappies yesterday but only put the outer waterproof layer on with the lining inside instead of also putting the cloth liner in as well as the other two things. The waterproof outer layer was also back to front which meant she would have had to roll the baby over to do it up. If she didn’t know how to do them she should have asked or looked at how the dirty nappy was done but she really doesn’t have enough common sense to do that. Needless to say, I really don’t like her and I don’t think anyone else in the nursery does either.

Knock knock, who’s there?

My dad was in such a weird mood this morning. First he was having a go at me because I ordered something online (which is not unusual for me) and because a delivery man knocked on the door about 8:30am, which I don’t think is an unreasonable time and everyone was awake anyway. Then he was moaning and having a bit of a sound off an hour later when the postman turned up and couldn’t fit a package through the letterbox:

(knock knock)
Me: Sean, can you open the door please? I’ve just got out the shower.
Dad: Who is it?
Me: I don’t know
Dad: Oh so you just open the door for anybody then do you?
Me: Well that is generally what you do when people knock on your door, open it.

Anyway I was talking to Stephen on WoW this morning when he suddenly went offline so I texted him to ask why he went and he told me that he had to go up the school to get his A-level results. Shit, I had forgotten about that. I couldn’t forget about it for the next 3 hours though because I was worrying how he got on and what was happening since he’d been so long up there. Turns out that he didn’t get the results he wanted and that he was seeing if he could resit the year and looking at other options. He hasn’t decided what he wants to do yet or whether he can resit the year (he has to go back up the school to see whether he can or not tomorrow). I was then worrying about what he was going to do, and also what I was going to do now during work today. Originally, were were both going to work for a year and then move to Leeds late next year so that Stephen could go to university. Now that we probably won’t be moving to Leeds I’m thinking of doing the next level in my course but because it’s too late for me to apply for the course at college, I’ll have to do work based learning (meaning work as normal in a child care setting and then do my course along side that, which I have to say is a hell of a lot of work).