If you follow my blog, twitter or instagram you may have spotted a couple of mentions of my big move - I'm moving out of my family home to a flat four hours away with my boyfriend. Over the last few weeks pretty much all I've done is collect furniture and bits & pieces for our flat so when we got our keys back at the start of August I was so excited to move in. Rob and I went down to Portsmouth for a week with both of our families popping down to help us out and we had the best week! Apart from a huge IKEA visit, cleaning the flat top-to-bottom, putting together flat pack furniture until the early hours of the morning and having a bit of a gas meter disaster, we managed to fit in a couple of fun days too. We finally went up the Spinnaker tower, made the most of 2-for-1 cocktails, had delicious meals out (I definitely recommend Coast to Coast in Gunwharf Quays) and shopped until we dropped!
We were lucky enough to get our hands on quite a bit of furniture from friends and family which we updated to suit our tastes, and ended up buying the rest (mainly bedroom furniture) from IKEA. I was gifted a beautiful dressing table from Rob's family to congratulate me on my graduation (far right photo) which I adore - I've never owned a dressing table before, so I'm over the moon! We are so pleased with our new little home and can't wait to properly move down there in a few days!
I also managed to pop into my new classroom and start sorting it out and getting ready to begin my Newly Qualified Teacher year in September. I managed to back the display boards, organise my trays of resources and arrange my tables. Rob came with me and labelled all 250 of my exercise books bless him, which saved me a lot of time - I had no idea how much work it takes to sort a classroom out! I'm happy that it's all done before the start of term, and now I'm just anxiously anticipating the first week of September!
All thats left of this summer is a gorgeous lady's wedding, the official move and then back to school! How have you spent the last few weeks of your summer?
Oh wow, you've had such a hectic couple of weeks, by the looks of things! My best friend is starting as an NQT this year, so I know it takes a lot of work - bless Rob for all that labelling, though! Hope you're settling in well honey xx
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Thank you sweet! I know, isn't he the sweetest?! xx
DeleteAwh well done you on the NQT status, I'm actually thinking of doing a PGCE next September, is that what you did? Congrats on the job and the flat - furniture/home shopping is so fun!
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Thanks lovely! No, I did a three year Primary Education degree with QTS :) x
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