Well I didn't expect to find myself leading a Duke of Edinburgh expedition this last weekend so soon after moving schools! In fact I had thought that I would possibly start being involved with the D of E Award again next Spring, as a volunteer rather than leader. How wrong I was! It turns out that I am the only qualified leader (for the moment) at my new school and the expeditions have already been arranged. I am not all that happy with being presented with this as a fait accompli.
So that's why I have so far completed eight days of a twelve day working week, and boy am I tired. I also have a rotten cold which I have liberally dosed with anything I could find in Morrison's. It's a long time since I have rubbed Vicks on my chest and I must say I like the smell!
Moaning aside, it was a great weekend. I walked more than 20,000 steps per day and had some hair-raising experiences reversing a huge minibus through a narrow farm gate into the camp site. Above all the company of my new pupils and colleagues was brilliant. We had some great laughs and the pupils were really polite and several, though exhausted, made a point of thanking us when we dropped them off back at the school.
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