So last month, I started a new job as a math teacher at a really nice, private, boarding school. I teach mainly math classes to grades 9-12 and also teach a couple IT classes. The job so far is going well - though it's kept me quite busy! We have classes 6 days a week (oh hello, working on Saturday mornings, it's been a while since we've seen each other!). Plus we also have chapel on Sundays. And since it's a boarding school, we have lots of responsibility outside of the classroom - coaching several days a week, chaperoning trips on some weekends, bedtime duty in a boarding house once a week, etc. So I pretty much work all the time. But the school is amazing, my colleagues are incredibly friendly and welcoming, and the students are lovely. So all in all, life is good. But unbelievably busy - hence my lack of posting pretty much anything since the school year started!
Along with this new gig comes accommodation on campus (since we work every day at all hours, they give us housing...not a bad deal). The best part about it is that when I'm not teaching, I can go home. Usually that means working at home - but still, it's nice to plan lessons at home in my PJs rather than sitting in my empty classroom!
We were put in a lovely "flat" (aka apartment) called "Laundry Flat 1" as it's attached to the campus Laundry building. Contrary to its name, however, it's quite a nice little house for us - 2 bedrooms, dining room/office, living room, bathroom, kitchen - everything we need for ourselves and the occasional guest (you're all welcome, by the way - we love visitors!!).
Here are a few pictures (especially for you mom :))
[Note: these pictures were taken a couple weeks ago and we were still in the process of moving in - please disregard all untidiness, haha]
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| The front of our house (actually the side of the Laundry building) - our door is the open one. All the windows on the second floor are our house. |
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| Our front door |
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| We're on the second floor - here's the view of the front door from our house. |
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| The dining room half of our dining room slash office. |
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| The office half of our dining room slash office aka where I live most of the time. |
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| Kitchen view #1 |
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| Kitchen view #2 |
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| Living room view #1 |
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| Living room view #2 |
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| Living room view #3 - the door on the left (which we always leave open as you see in this picture) leads to a hallway with the kitchen and dining room/office, and the door on the right (also always left open) leads to the bedrooms and bathroom. |
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| Spare room slash Jay's man-cave. |
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| Our bedroom view #1 (from corner by the window) |
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| Our bedroom view #2 (from door into room) - the built in closest along the far wall are my favorite thing about the room! |
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| Our lovely bathroom. No bath this time, sadly. But at least everything is in one room! |
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| View of our yard from the kitchen - you have to walk up stairs from the driveway to get to it...a little weird, yes. |
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| Our yard is actually quite big - and terraced. It goes even further back than this. |
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| Our driveway and garage (we have the one on the right) |
