Our Olympic Flame

My birthday (part 1)

At 6am I jumped out of bed like a kid at Christmas, ran to the sitting room, grabbed my birthday presents, ran back to bed and tore them open. Thank you Mum for my lovely girlie stash of handbag, earrings, perfume, scarf, fudge, cardigan and flip flops. After that I made the icing for my cakes, had a bath and a coffee, put on all my new pretty things and went to school. From that moment it was a crazy day!

When I got to school I went to the sports centre for the opening ceremony of our 2012 minutes sports day. It had really started at 4am where two mini buses of students started a 26 mile torch relay marathon from the place where our school was founded to our school. They arrived at just before 8 when they all ran in holding the torch. We had a short ceremony with some songs and cheering then we went outside to light our very own Olympic flame and they released a box of pigeons! They were supposed to be doves representing peace but we had pigeons. I have no idea how they caught them.

There were only 10 minutes left of the first lesson by the time we got there so we just had a quick chat about MMM and a passive quiz.

I then had a pointless trip to the police station about my accident but let's not talk about that. In my lesson with 10c as I walked in 3 boys ran out and came back with a bar of chocolate for my birthday. We were discussing sport and athletics when I asked a boy what things we throw in athletics, an answer was whispered in his ear but he misheard that and answered "a German". I laughed a lot!

My next class had to change classrooms which they didn't know and so spent 10 minutes drawing a beautiful birthday picture on the board. They took a photo with a phone so at least I got to see it.

Just before the last lesson with sky turned black and had a big thunderstorm (hence why my picture is of an unlit Olympic flame!). When I went to my last class, I opened the door, it was dark and empty. I went back to the staff room wondering how I'd lost my pupils. I spoke to their tutor and she said they should be there so I went back. This time I opened the door and walked in a little, they all jumped out and shouted "Surprise! Happy Birthday!". Aren't they cute?

After my last lesson I ran some errands then had to go to the school prize giving ceremony and reception. The ceremony was boring with lots of piano performances but a nice song by the choir that sounded like a song about Pumba from the Lion King but I'm assured it wasn't. The reception was nice though with lots of cake, strawberries and champagne.

At half six I went to watch some of the gymnastics and then went for a beer. I planned to have one beer, go home and eat then go back for the disco. Unfortunately one beer turned into several and a pizza so I missed the disco. When I got there the football tournament had just started and it turned out to be a great night with a fantastic atmosphere. I stayed at the gym all night chatting, taking photos and hanging out (of course dotted with a few sneaky birthday drinks in the staff room and an interesting half Hungarian/English conversation about the economy while drinking 1/2 a bottle of fizzy wine). I saw the sunrise and eventually at 5.45am my camera ran out of battery so decided to walk home and have a shower.