A harbinger of things to come?

I happened to be awake (barely) at 01:30 this morning and I felt another earthquake!! Was it the 2^nd of 3 for the year? Or will we have a more active year and this is just a harbinger of things to come? Time will tell.

At the school, the students pretty much cleaned all day while the teachers figured out who was teaching what. I almost ended up having to teach Form 2 Physics until another teacher gets here but my secondmaster said something about the guy coming soon so I don’t have to teach it. Phew.

I know I have Form 1 Physics & Chemistry and Form 3 Chemistry so I started making my Scheme of Work for them. This is basically an outline of my planned teaching schedule that has topics, sub-topics, competencies, objectives, activities, teaching aids, reference books, and form of assessment on it. It’s a bit of a pain to divide the paper and draw the lines but good for planning topics and to look at for reminders when planning my lessons.

The typist (i.e. secretary) asked me for help today to make a year calendar with a picture at the top. “That should be pretty easy,” thinks I, “I’m sure one of the Microsoft programs on the computer has a calendar feature.” Somehow, this useful feature is not available in Word, Publisher, Excel, or PowerPoint. Must be a plot by the manufacturers of calendars to make sure people still buy them. In the end, I used Excel to make a table with the days and dates for each month. Then in Word, I put a picture at the top and made 3 columns for the rest of the document. By copying and pasting each month into the columns and messing w/ spacing a little, I was able to make a simple calendar on one page with a picture at the top. I kind of gave up trying to explain to the typist what I was doing as I figured it out but did try to show a little of my method. Naturally, I thought this was a calendar the mkuu wanted made. Nope, she had (crudely) scanned personal pictures onto the computer (I had fixed the scanner during school break) and was making the calendar for personal use. Gitting Secondary School lost a few hours of my time today while I figured it out. Now I want to print my own.