Saturday, April 29, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
The long weekend
We teachers in Britain don't get a lot of long weekends. This coming up weekend is actually my first since I've been here. Monday is May Day. For May Day, Zela, Jackie and I are going to Sunderland. Yes, that hot bed of fun activities. Actually, I hear it's pretty bad but I guess I'll find out in three days. Sunderland is a Premiership team that, unfortunately, is in the bottom three of the table. This, of course, means they will be relegated to the Coca-Cola Championship league next year where they will have to try to finish top two or three to get back up. However, they do have a couple of games remaining before the end of the season and one game is versus the all mighty Arsenal Gunners. And fortunately Sunderland is doing so poorly that we were able to garner tickets to the game. That's the fortunate part of this story. So, Monday we will be off on a 5.5hr car ride to the northeast coast and a 5.5hr return trip posthaste. Arsenal, for all of you non-football fans (like me) are 5th in the premiership table. They are in no danger of getting kicked out of the premiership but they are on the verge of missing top 4. The top 4 from all the european premiership leagues play in an exclusive championship knock-out tournament called the Champions of Europe. It's currently held by Liverpool and Arsenal is up for it this year.
Monday, April 24, 2006
Stamford
In our search for something to do on Sunday, Zela and I went on another road trip in hopes of finding a Sunday market somewhere. This is Naked Homer in front of St John Baptist Church in Stamford. Stamford is a great little town. Similar to St Ives it is a neat little town with a lot of old buildings and churches. Unlike Luton, it had a great feeling to it. Unfortunately, it was raining when we arrived and almost everything was closed. Damn, it was cold. This is where I purchased the little England home kit for Sparky Mark. Of the stores that they had the only one open in Stamford on a Sunday was a large sports chain store called Sportsworld. Good find, they were having a sale.
Luton High Road
Zela and I went to Luton on Saturday. It was a wonderful day with the temperature hovering new 17 degrees and the sun shining high above. Luten is a really weird city. It's huge (they have a football team in the championship league) and it's the city Odette was going to work in. This is the War Memorial in the middle of town. The city had a weird feeling to it. I didn't really like it. However, we were only there for an hour.
New "Dwarf"
So, as you probably know, Dwarf met a sudden end on the floor of the British Art Gallery as he/she/it fell to the stone floor as I wrestled with getting my jacket out of the bag he/she/it was in. The replacement figure is Naked Homer. Of course, my trips won't be the same without dwarf but Naked Homer has some benifits versus dwarf. For one, he's not as fragile so he'll definitely last the next trip I take to the British Art Gallery. Another, he's very lightweight (as Sir Alan Sugar would say). Here's Naked Homer raising his beer to the fact that we're heading towards that rough, tough North England city of Luten. Cheers.
Vancouver
My trip to Vancouver was pretty short but it allowed me to return home, have some Tim Horton's coffee and to see Emma. One week went very quickly and I don't really feel like I got anything done but it was nice to be home for that short time. However, I'm still miffed that I missed The Boatrace on the Thames. I may never have another chance to see that.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
spring break
It's spring break!!! I've been wasting the past few days away. I guess I coulda helped out with the revision days - where we require specific grade D students to come in to do extensive science work in hopes of getting them to a level that they may achieve a grade C - but I didn't. I'm heading to Vancouver tomorrow and I'm leaving in the next few hours to get the bus into Huntingdon. My plan is to try to get to Heathrow after the London rush hour but I don't exactly know if that's possible cause I don't know what hours London rush hour runs. I have a super heavy hockey bag that I can't lift myself. The courtyard is gravel so right when I step out of my door comes the first test since the wheels won't roll over the pebbles. Good work, eh?
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