....Y viva Espana......

Tonight you get a three part blip.

Yesterday I threatened to blip hebs, or maybe give her a surprise hug! Here it is, hebs teaching art! If you can't make it out she's doing the Catalan Bull in the style of Picasso. I sneaked down to the art room first lesson, on the pretence of seeing the kids trying out Picasso's style....but really to capture my mate.... I took a few shots of pupils working and then ..."Click" the deed was done! Her head shot up and she asked..." Did you just take a shot of me?"......"Of course not Angel", I replied.

Later at the end of school I was just leaving my lab, when she appeared down the corridor, on her way to shoot the pinata that the pupils had made, I let her draw level.....and pounced....big bear hug! The Boss was following close behind, and seemed taken aback....but never mind I got my shot and my hug. By my reckoning I'm two surprise hugs up on her now!

I spent the next two hours cooking tapas, to help out Hammy, our Food tech teacher. Three pupils and I knocked up 50 empanadas (little pasties) stuffed with goat's cheese and red onion. I also helped make some bread balls stuffed with chorizo and some cheeese and chorizo tarts. Hammy and I get on so well together, but God she works like a demon, non-stop 100 mile an hour stuff. I kept asking where my glass of wine was and threatening to do a Gordon Ramsay, she just kept on calling me a tart!

And then I helped with the taste test!

And then I went and did my two hours of volcanoes with my own group!!

Tonight the Boss and I went to the pub quiz....first time in weeks....D & V came too. It was a night mare...not least because the guy asking the questions (who charges £50 for doing it) made several errors....one example....he read out "In which Bond movie did Bernard Lee first appear as M?" He read it out twice!! We went for Goldfinger.....when he read out the answer the question was "In which Bond movie did Bernard Lee make his last appearnace as M?"...the answer....of course, Moonraker!

At the end of the quiz, in disgust, I went for a fag. As I passed through the pub I heard a female voice say "Oh my God, he used to teach me Science!" I kept my head down and kept going ...but she called out my name! I turned and there was a young lady in a lovely white dress with an older guy in a grey suit, white shirt and pink tie. " Hi, you used to teach me Science, I thought you were great, you made me want to be a teacher...and I am one!" I offered my congratulations and she said, turning to the guy with her, "You taught my dad too!!!!!."..........The first 16 year olds I taught are now 48 and he must have been one of them...but he was greyer than me and lokked older than me! Making small talk I remarked that they looked good and asked if they'd been to a wedding...she replied "No, it was my graduation this afternoon".. again I offered my congrats and she then informed me she has a job in Leeds, at a Catholic girls Grammar school. A bit more small talk and I made my escape...outside having my fag I pondered, she must have been about the 12th or 13th ex-pupil to have told me that I inspired them to become teachers...and I always meet them in pubs...the last one was about 4 weeks ago.

It's a good feeling to know that you made a difference.

Das vidanya moy padruga.