(I don’t know why my blog post titles are starting to sound more and more like headlines from a celebrity gossip magazine. I just think “Week 28” is a bit boring.)
As you may know from previous posts, I have started two jobs recently: one in our town centre, helping Connie with her ceramics, and the other in a very pretty town a train’s journey away, keeping shop downstairs and helping out with the home ed groups they organise upstairs from time to time.
I think while working with Connie is more of a fun, creative outlet for me (I’ve been working on some foxes as Christmas decorations), working in the little shop definitely feels more like an actual job (still fun though!). My favourite aspect of it is when I get to play with the kids upstairs. They have baby and toddler groups on Tuesdays which is one of the days I work there, so there are plenty of opportunities for me to play with the little ones! Yesterday one little 3-year-old was showing me her Harry Potter toy and pointing to his scar, repeating “He’s banged his head, ouch!” It was so cute.
Someone was having a birthday party upstairs yesterday, so the whole day was spent preparing for that and manning the till while my employers were sorting things out upstairs. One of the jobs I was tasked with was cutting out one hundred squares of tissue paper for one of the birthday games; I also had to stick some newspaper together and wrap a parcel for a pass-the-parcel game, which was incredibly stressful because I kept losing count! The customers must have been a little puzzled when they saw some random child sprawled on the floor by the checkout sellotaping newspaper together and desperately counting and recounting on her fingers.
In other news, recent affairs have been centred around Boris Johnson’s resignation a few days ago, and the race to become Tory leader and therefore prime minister of eight candidates. Nadhim Zahawi, Jeremy Hunt and Suella Braverman, who I was hoping for, have been eliminated, so now it’s between Kemi Badenoch, who I’m now hoping for, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt.
So it has been a pretty eventful couple of weeks! Aside from jobs and politics, I’ve also been getting on with my studying for A Christmas Carol, which is one of the books I’ve now chosen for my English Lit GCSE. I’m also plodding through the maths GCSE book (and the more maths I do, the less I’m considering a maths A-level 😉).