Begin again...

We live in interesting times.

A lot has happened since my last post, and I mean a lot! I won't put a lot of it on here because, to be honest, I can't be bothered. So I will summarise in dot points:

• Firstly, I finished studying. The OUA units I completed (53 units) gave me two bachelors, plus there was the diploma on the side. These let me get into a graduate-entry bachelor of teaching which, after a semester, was joined by a Masters of Arts (Writing and Literature). In two years the teaching was done and I got a job (more on that later). The masters took a year's holiday and then came back last year with a 20,000 word project entitle Songs of Descent: A re-imagining of Euripide's Medea. So all my study is done...or at least was for about a month. Then work enrolled me in a postgraduate specialist certificate in leadership of assessment practice, which has kind-of rolled into a Masters of Education. However, I really enjoyed that month in which I had finished studying!
• I started working. I work at a regional state secondary college. In my two-and-a-bit years there I have taught mainly English and Humanities, but also some maths and lead-lighting. (I still don't know how to lead-light, despite the kids trying their best to educate me!) Anyways, I have then become involved in a somewhat full-on boys' education program pilot, and, this year, somehow taken on leadership of the English KLD (7-9), a curriculum team reinvigorating curriculum in 7 and 8 English and Humanities heading towards integration and differentiation, and become Literacy Coordinator. I am not sure how I ended up with all of these hats on: Some I got while I was away sick! Work life is very full!
• My family changed. Some became more stable. Some are becoming less stable. Some have done both. One has run off the rails and left. Generally, the six that remain are doing really well. My wife has started working and is now wondering why!
• I started pastoring. I had nothing else on my plate, you see... Well, not really, but you don't chuck a Jonah, you chuck an Isaiah. As much as in me is...

I don't know how often I'll be able to post here. I don't know if anyone ever reads it. But, what they hey, if I get the urge I will. Consider it just another beginning...