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Happy campers
At 10 a.m. today Lauren, Sarah & Jip (l2r) got in the office car laden down with spendy games, name tags, future board, twister, story books, a large yellow elephant and assortment of other items essential for a positive camping experience. If you are planning to go camping with 20, er 18 little kids bent on creating havoc and learning English in Northern Thailand that is. I wish them luck and hope they have fun.
Almost exactly 5 years ago my first mission for the British Council was accompany two other extraordinary teachers (Tash & Mark) and one other enthusiastic teaching assistant (Ju) on a similar camp but this time on Thailand's eastern seaboard.
So much has changed in that 5 years - mostly for the better (I have Wolf in real life now), but not completely. I was very sure of myself professionally then, now I am not. Although this uncertainty feels pretty scary I believe it is a necessary phase which will enable to me to move on to something new. People keep asking me what, but I have no idea - and I don't want to have any idea. I need to break free of this before I can envisage that, otherwise my that will be this in another form.
Anyway, today is my last day as Academic Manager at the British Council and here I am balanced between two camps. Balanced between the past and the future. A beginning and an end.
Poised.
Maybe that means I am ready to start the 'now', the 'being in the moment-ness' that Dom manages to do with effortless grace and I battle with continually. I have long suspected that my moment is smaller and more slippery than Dom's - but maybe his 'moment shoes' have better treads. More traction.
Yes, I need this time to work on my soul soles.
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3 comments:
Congratulations, Lovely. Best of luck to you when you take that first step off of the old path and veer onto the new. You'll rock it out (you always do) - whatever it is!
Your last day as Academic Manager, though? Have you quit, or has your job changed? (We really need to have more frequent chats, I think.)
Why do all the nice people leave the Council?’ I ask, searching for a device stronger than a rhetorical interrogative.
I don’t know how I’m going to break this to Dr. Katt; the furry toy who sits on my desk and acts as my chief confidant and councillor. I had promised him you would appear some day, descending on a cloud of reason, to line manage the two of us; rendering justice in this dark city of light.
Will the night never end?
@Kim: My Academic Manager post came to the end of my contract, and as we restructured the post changed to Branch Manager which I decided not to apply for. Now I am a part-time teacher - so I haven't left entirely Phil. Please pass on my regrets to Dr Katt, I would have loved to be his (and your) line manager... but I think I am done with line management. We make the process far too complicated imo.
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