Seachange
I've had an idea. It was just the tiniest germ of an idea, a little speck of a thought, but then I looked at it this way and that, I turned it over in my hands, I held it up to the light, and the more I looked the bigger it grew and the more I liked it.
It would mean taking a year to retrain. It would mean getting my act together pretty damn sharpish in order to get on a course in the first place. And it would mean my life would undergo a drastic, fundamental change. But... but... It would mean I would at last have a purpose. A reason to get out of bed in the morning. And, with luck, I could spend my days covered in glitter and poster paint and glue.
I think it might be time to put aside Mrs Robinson, part-time receptionist and actress-at-large, and to take on a new role: Mrs Robinson, primary school teacher.
(What do you think? Am I mad?)
Comments
Minks - I'll drink to that. Yeah!
As a box of frogs.
Brilliant.
I'll echo the above comments! Being an actress means that you are creative, and have the ability to entertain - that's really all you need, being able to bring learning the life... you'll be great at it! (and have an admiring audience EVERY DAY).
Ooh Mrs R you'd be GREAT.
(And if you do your course with the OU it's FLEXIBLE so you can do other stuff around it........ within reason. Although that may only be a PGCE....).
I frequently have "shall I be a Spanish teacher - it's such a fun language and I could talk about Antonio Banderas and show pictures of David Beckham with impunity....." thoughts.
And it'd really fit in with the 1.5 kids we own.
Yes. Do it and love it.
But make sure that you pick your first school very carefully as (especially in London) you need to decide if you want to save feral children from a life of crime, or battle daddy at parents evening for not having set his 5 year old princess enough homework!