The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

zagubov

Let me get my happy birthday in before I have to put in "belated"

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

My very darling and amusing wife spotted in the newspaper:

"A talk: From cannibalism to Christianity, followed by a finger buffet."

:rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:


Actually, that sounds like it would be an interesting talk!
Unless it's just about the subjugation of certain African/Indonesian/South American tribes.

From the little I know about cannibalism, I think it was more a way of honouring the dead, or the fallen in battle, rather than finding a handy visiting snack on your doorstep.

Pyxis

Hope you had a good one, Silvercar.


This is clever.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM46g0PXOXY

SingleSue

Happy belated birthday Silvercar xx

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Thank you!

Why wouldn't she attend the service?

Usually the dress code is written on the invite, though "dress to party" is often written which is not much help!

I dont know, is the service not more a family thing? I think it is a generic invitation to both bits which may be on consecutive days. The c9kkent on dress is because my dds only seem to have 2 styles of dress, school uniform and hooker and i was wondering if either would be suitable for such an event?

SingleSue

Just over a year after graduating and pretty much giving up his dreams of being a teacher, James has spoken to his partner and she is willing to support him in going in for his teacher training next September.

He's not been happy in his current job, it pays well but it's not what he really wanted to do (even if he is using his degree in a small way), he went to uni with the intention of becoming a teacher at the end of it but he got wobbles right at the end and looked at other careers.

vivatifosi

That's really positive Sue, and he partner sounds lovely. Best of luck James!


Oh, and belated Happy Birthday silvercar. That's what happens when I dont come on here, I miss important stuff. Sorry!

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

.... my dds only seem to have 2 styles of dress, school uniform and hooker...

LOL

Hilarious.... disturbingly "true".

It's pop videos and easy access to online content that normalised girls twerking their bits in skimpy outfits. Before all this ... we'd see a stationary single photo of a girl in a mini in a weekly magazine advert for Top Shop, maybe a bit of Pan's People (tarty hussies!!) easily passed/ignored. Now it's frantic hookeresque movements while pouting into camera lenses.... everywhere.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Just over a year after graduating and pretty much giving up his dreams of being a teacher, James has spoken to his partner and she is willing to support him in going in for his teacher training next September.

He's not been happy in his current job, it pays well but it's not what he really wanted to do (even if he is using his degree in a small way), he went to uni with the intention of becoming a teacher at the end of it but he got wobbles right at the end and looked at other careers.

That's good news.

I remember a few years ago spending Christmas with my brother and his family. Aged P was there too. One evening, Aged P and I, along with my eldest nephew, were sitting talking after everyone else had gone to bed. The nephew had done a course to train to teach English as a foreign language, and had been working several part-time jobs in shops and so on to build up a bit of a financial cushion before setting off for the Czech Republic to start teaching. He was telling us that one of his shop jobs was merely boring, but the other one he really hated because he was always under pressure to sell harder, and he said he didn't like having to try to persuade people to buy things he could see they didn't really want and couldn't really afford.

Aged P (who worked in universities his whole career, enjoying the mix of research and teaching, and who had teachers for both parents, an uncle and a grandmother) and I told the nephew that some people are born with a "thing" for teaching - the capacity to find it really satisfying to get someone to understand something they didn't understand before. We told him he was one of "us" - and bred to it not just from our side of the family but from his mother too. (She was a teacher before she became a vicar.) We told him to surrender to the inevitable and accept that those who are born to teach aren't happy in other kinds of jobs. We also told him that it wouldn't matter very much what he taught, or to whom, but to find a job where he could really feel he'd found his niche, he'd need to be teaching something to somebody.

He went off to Prague a few weeks later, and has been teaching EFL ever since, in one country or another, with a short stint of working in an establishment for adults with the kind of limitations that mean they can't live independently. I believe he also has plans to teach drums some time - he's good enough at drums to be able to.

It sounds as though your James may have the "thing" too. If so, tell him from me that the PGCE is often hell, and the first year of teaching only a little better, but it improves after that, and if he really does have the "thing" it will be worth it to get through those first stages.

What subject would he want to teach? Or would he do primary??

SingleSue

Aww that is lovely Lydia.

I personally think he would be better in primary as he is wonderful with smaller children (especially differing needs) but he is intent on high school.

His subject of choice is RE/Philosophy with a back up/option of of media. His 'thing' has always been philosophy.

That said, there is still time for things to change and he may decide primary yet (I hold out hope as I believe that is where his strength is) and of course it is going to be a bit of work to get there, he and his partner need to get a little financial cushion behind them to start with.