Today has been so tiring but never mind, push on. Walked to the tube station this morning and had to wait 7 minutes which is unheard of, that time of morning it's normally 2 at most. So I missed my connection at Waterloo.
The day went pretty well. We had an art lesson where the kids did a self portrait, and I did an example. It was absolutely hideous but in true year 2 fashion all the kids were like "that's amazing! You're an artist!!" Naw, they make you feel spesh. And yeah, that's a Collingwood jumper I'm wearing in my self portrait. Hehehe.
We also had maths, literacy and then the afternoon was spent cutting out their puzzles. I then got them to solve some of each other's and then we solved them together on the projector.
It tipped down rain a lot of today. So half of lunch and all of arvo break was spent indoors, meaning they were restless all afternoon and very rowdy. What can you do? I had one boy be very cheeky and when I eventually sent him to our buddy class he cried....:/
This afternoon I got everything I had to done and then walked in the rain to the tube and went to Jess' house (the one who I used to work with). Had some dinner, got changed then we headed off. We got the district line to Fulham Broadway and then headed to Stamford Bridge or 'The Bridge' to watch Chelsea take on Tel Aviv in the champions league.
We met a guy dad knows through work called Richard and he gave us our tickets, we gave him his money. He was really nice and walked up to us and said "want some tickets?" I had no idea it was him because I knew nothing about him except he was a Chelsea supporter haha.
Hardly a bag check again, just looked at the top and we were in. Really good seats down the Chelsea end. Only problem - we were in a standing bay. So we stood. Literally. The. Whole. Match. After a whole day running around on my feet at school. Exhausted!!!
Chelsea won 4-0 and kicked 2 goals at each end, we saw two down our end in the second half and I knew both players - Diego Costa and Fabregas! It was hard to see as we had two tall men in front of us but we dodged and weaved.
The atmosphere was different to Monday. Because we were already stood up, whenever a goal was scored no one leapt up so it was missing that element of excitement. But the chanting was awesome! Pretty much constant the whole way through between Chelsea and the Israelis. A lot of them there supporting TA! One chant was the same tune as the "banana boat" advertisement from home hahaha.
Had a great time and Jess cracked me up. She's an NSW rugby girl but she enjoyed the soccer too. Speaking of rugby - I got tickets with my kiwi friend to NZ vs Namibia on September 24 (birthday!). The general consensus from blog readers was to just do it as you only live once. Atmosphere will be fantastic, can't wait to see the Haka!!
The crowd after the football was a little scary. Massive bottleneck after exiting the ground and turning into the street, and I started to feel a tiny bit claustrophic. Jess got on the westbound trains and I queued up for the east bound. Didn't take too long but v uncomfortable. A kind man let me sit down on the train, I must have looked like I felt. I said "thank you, I'm a primary school teacher and I've stood literally all day!" Hope some good karma goes his way.
Now I'm headed home on the district line all the way to Monument and then the bus. So tired!!! Lucky I got lots ready for school tmro.
Love to all
Claire
Xoxox
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