Hi from Crewe! We have been having such a great time here in class, working in the school and traveling! It is really eye opening to see all the different perspectives of teaching and life abroad. Being enrolled in two university classes on Mondays has been a great experience. We get to work with students who are also training to become teachers and we get more insight on UK schools, not just the one we are working in. Our peers are just as interested in the way we do things back home as we are with how they do things here.
Working in the primary school Tuesday through Thursday has been very rewarding and different. Our teachers have such a heavy workload with 30 students in their class and they are so appreciative for our help around the class. It’s been nice to be able to work with different groups of students and get to make a connection with them. They are a very lively and fun bunch and have so many questions about America. They think that I drive home to the U.S. after work. I really enjoy being in the class with them and we are gaining more and more responsibility each day. We also get school lunch there from their cafeteria and it’s actually really good. Probably because its home made!
Because we have Friday off, we have been able to travel the weekends! Sometimes we leave Thursday nights if we can find a cheaper airfare. Luckily Crewe is placed in a railroad town which makes it an easy half hour from two different airports on the train. We are airport pros now and probably won’t want to be in one for a while after we are finally home! We have been to Edinburgh, Scotland, Dublin, Amsterdam and Paris so far. My top two are tied between Edinburgh and Paris. Edinburgh was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. Paris was fantastic as well but we could have used more time sight seeing, as we only had one day. The other day we went to Disneyland Paris which was definitely a lot smaller than Disneyworld but it was something to check off my bucket list! We can’t believe we have less than 20 days left. Everything has gone by so fast, yet so slow at the same time. We feel like we have been here for years already but we are so appreciative for our time we have spent here. We have seen so much and learned a lot from the people we have met!