Blogs from Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Well, its been a while now since i have uploaded, this is partly because i have been working hard, partly because am lazy and also party because i have actually attempted this once before only to have the page delete just as i hit upload!!! thats enough to make anyone throw a tantrum. Life has been going along at a steady rate, without too many exciting things happening, so don’t read on if your looking for riveting entertainment! A breakdown of a coupla of months in the UK - working full time. Half Term. I think i left off last time just before half term holidays form school. My first week off since my time in London when i arrived here. It was a bank holiday on the Monday, so naturally they had scheduled cricket for ... read more

Well, it has been a busy couple of weeks here at Keighley. Work from 6 til 5 or 6, training twice a week, juniors one night a week and cricket all weekend makes for a pretty busy time, hence my lack of correspondance. sorry. Work has been pretty good, on my second wednesday the school asked me back again for another week and they have had no less than 10 supply teachers in each day and i have now taken over from another girl who reportadly has glandular fever so i reckon i might be good for another couple of week work here. The school system here is very similar to at home. I think that teachers would be able to swap between countries and there would be no problem. The teacher i am covering for ... read more

Well, was offered the job I was offered then un offered last week. A teacher here at alerton grange high has a sick not til the end of next week but thinks she may well come back early if she feels up to it (i tell you know, if the doc gives me a sick note and i feel better early i would be heading ion holiday not back to work!!). The job is the north side of leeds, about10 or so on the bus so i am back to the joys of public transport. Now the transport system over her is really quite good i think better than ours but i havent been on it for a while... Little did i know to buy a long term ticket (a weekly) you need to bring in ... read more

Well I finally managed it and got everything packed...Took 5 attempts and still feel like it weighs a ton, even though on the bathroom scales it came out at 16kg, which is well under my allowance!!! So i set off tommorrow and it still doesn't seem real, I've packed up my house, said goodbye to the folks and most of my friends. So I guess this is it, from tomorrow I will be a turtle for with all my possessions on my back....lets just hope I don't topple over, ha ha ha. Not looking forward to the flight, but reckon if i don't think about it too much I'll be fine!! So next time I post an update I will be in Bangkok!! ... read more

Welcome to Keighley, population just over 50,000. A fantastic little town found just outside the yorkshire dales set in the airedale valley. The view out of the window here is spectacular, lush green landscape with intermittent bunches of little houses jammed in as close as they could possibly be together. We walked past the golf course the other day (ive already made membership enquiries) and it was very nice to see a course with green fairways the whole way from tee to green. Everyone up here is very friendly. I am currently living with the towlers, who is the family of the fella who has been tlaking to me since late last year. Today i am moving down a little bit closer to town to live with the bottomleys. Kathryn and stuart are on the comittee ... read more