The Last Monday

The countdown to the flight home begins this week. It’s coming so soon, and in a few short days, I will have Chick-fil-A in my possession. Even though that’s all so wonderful, as I’m sure I have said multiple times, I don’t want to leave. I am all accustomed to big city life. As it is nearing the end of the program, we only have three more days of work. Because my students, as well as the teachers, have left for summer break, I am working in the office completing administrative tasks. I went into work at the normal time, but found that they lady with my assignments didn’t come in until 10. So I sat for a bit until we got in contact with her. Remember all the school report cards that I had to copy last week? Well, it’s a good thing I put them neatly and in orderly form because my task today was to file them all. So, for a good hour and a half or so I filed these reports. The file system at this school is a bit unorganized. There are a ton of files, one for each student of course, precariously hanging in filing cabinets. Some of these children’s folders are like five or six inches thick. I mean, seriously, what can the file have in it? Filing is a mundane task but I don’t mind it. After a while though all the names began to run together and I kept feeling like I had put report after report in one student’s folder and none in the rest. The names just sounded so familiar. Probably the most confusing parts were the names. Some kids had names on their report that were different than the file. So, that was fun to find. Also, there are a ton of students with the name Al (fill in the blank). So, I have no idea how to pronounce or spell their last names, but I had to sift through all the Al (fill in the blank) names to match up the letters on the file with the one on the report. Goodness goodness. But I can’t complain.

After all that filing, I took a break and went to Starbucks, which is just so conveniently close and I got a muffin. Yummy. I sat for a bit and read the school newsletters. Today was very slow, and I got to leave early which was nice. After work, I decided that I could go shopping. I mean, why not? Even though it’s a mad house, I went back to Oxford Street to go in some stores I hadn’t gone in yet. I found some really cute items! I met up with Emily and the shopping continued and then we met up with Lindsay, and we kept going. We hadn’t experienced Selfridges yet, so that was on the agenda. In Selfridges, which is a massive department store, that is decorated really cute, they have two notable stores. The Big British Store and The Yellow Store. The first is what is sounds like and the second carried only yellow merchandise. I must say, I was a bit disappointed.  The Yellow Store was nowhere near as big as I was expecting and all the British items were super expensive and not that British-y. So, overall, it was kinda a letdown. After shopping all day, we were exhausted so we just made our way back to the flat and picked up dinner at Sainsbury.

I’m so sad it’s just all coming to a close. I’m excited to go home, but I know I’m really going to miss London.

Week Six: Day One: Internship 14