Day 28 - Start of the Easter holidays

I had almost forgotten that the Easter bank holiday weekend is this coming weekend, and that this marks the start of a week off classes for us. To be honest, it won’t make too much of a difference to me. The bank holiday could be today, for all I know! I can’t believe I live in a world where I am ambivalent about bank holiday weekends. Not that long ago, I lived for them!

Today, as my students had their last Zoom classes before the Easter break, I decided to survey them to see how they had been finding the online learning experience so far. Thankfully the feedback was very positive and all of them have asked me to continue doing the online classes as I have been.

It’ll be a bit strange not having any classes to give next week, as it gives a bit of structure to my day and week. However I’m going to make a conscious effort to stay off the computer for the week, as much as I can. It’ll be good to potter around without too much of a focus for a while, I think!Read more