When I mention 'the other side', I am talking about the stroll down the hill towards retirement. I am no longer in the prime of my career ... if there is such a thing. I am freaking out my colleagues by doing stuff like digging out old boxes and tossing files and telling them I am preparing for retirement. But I am also doing stuff like learning new teaching and learning techniques and I might even set up a YouTube channel. After all, I am looking ahead to a new phase of life where I have more say in what I do with my daily hours. I cannot fathom going through a day where I don't learn something new or create something that wasn't there before.
Post pandemic years feel weird. Especially when I am now in the group preparing for retirement. Priorities went upside-down, new habits were formed, perspectives changed irrevocably... and I feel that I am having to adapt to an existence that might look the same as it used to but is vastly different in unseen ways. It's like the sky is still blue and the grass is still green but there's a hazy difference. Maybe someone will read these words decades later and try to imagine how the author feels.
Unexpectedly I am more focused on music nowadays.
Another great opportunity for our young people to show what they can do! The Royal Commonwealth Essay Competition has four different age bands, 'Classes'. Each Class offers five topics, plus the Commonwealth Question and the Charlton Athletic Community Trust Question. As we hope to reach a diverse student body across the Commonwealth, there are options for both academic and creative minds. The Competition deadline is 1st March 2009 CLASS A - Born 1990-1992 1400-1750 words All questions can be answered by writing an essay or a story which explores the topic in an interesting and relevant way. Can I help you? Bullying is an issue which concerns young people throughout the Commonwealth. Why does it matter and what can be done about it? It is 200 years since Charles Darwin was born and 150 years since the publication of "On the origin of Species". In your view, what evolutionary developments are needed to ensure the continuing
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