"Chicken _______"

We officially started our placement at our new school on Monday. All of us researched how to get there realizing it was going to take at least 1 1/2 hrs. Most of us are living in Eastbourne; however, Haley, Jess, and my school is in a town called Hailsham which is about a 20 minute drive--if you're not taking public transportation. The only decent thing about the situation is that they don't start school until 9am BUT the Head-Teacher wanted us to be at the school at 8. A detailed description of our Monday travel is listed below...

6:45 am-->Walk 10 minutes to bus stop near our house-->Wait for the number 3 bus to take us to Eastbourne City Center--Ride the number 3 for about 10 mintues to city center-->Walk 5 minutes to another bus stop in city center that will take us to Hailsham-->Bus 54 is supposed to arrive at 7:15 but doesn't until 7:29--> 54 Begins journey to Hailsham and alarm goes off. Bus driver tells us there is a problem. We look at each other.-->We stop and wait on another bus to pick us up. The driver tells us that the bus coming is actually worse than the one we are on. She said the drivers refer to it as the "chicken shit" bus. We think "great we're getting on the chicken shit bus...this is a great start to our Monday."-->Switch buses--> Continue journey to Hailsham-->Arrive in Hailsham then walk 20 minutes from the bus stop to our school-->Arrival time is 8:50 (only a tad bit late, right?)

The day at school went fairly well, until the teacher gave me her lesson for the end of the day and left the classroom. It was a lesson plan for PSHE. I didn't even know what PSHE stood for!! So...I improvised. A lot. Oh, and this was after the French teacher did not show and she tried to get me to review counting to 10 with the students-in French, of course. I don't know French. That was interesting.

My Super Small Classroom

Luckily the Deputy Head-Teacher took us home. We left the school around 4:45 and arrived home right a 5. Public transportation not my best friend at the moment.

Two days down, 22 to go.