I'm going camping with the year sevens later this week. I'm looking forward to it though obviously there are some aspects that aren't so appealing. I've been making a list of pros and cons about the situation:

pro: I miss teaching the rest of my classes for three days
con: I have to spend three days in a field
pro: There are some exciting activities I'll be involved with
con: Part of it's climbing - I'm scared of heights
pro: It'll be nice to see the kids outside of a classroom environment
con: I'll have to see the kids outside of a classroom environment
pro: I'll gets lots of fresh air
con: The air will stink of sheep
pro: It's a change of routine
con: It's a change of routine
pro: I don't have to do the cooking
con: WE'RE HAVING A CHOCOLATE FREE ZONE
pro: The kids will enjoy it
con: The kids will get over-excited and no one will sleep for two nights
pro: I get to boss the kids around - better than when I was on school camps
con: It'll be my fault if somebody dies
pro: It's nice to be outside in June
con: I bet it rains
pro: It'll be an opportunity to get to know some other teachers better
con: The best looking teacher is camping in the first half of the week

I could go on.

We currently have a lady visiting our department who is spending a few weeks seeing what life in a school is like. She has kids in the school and looking ahead to next year it looks like I could be teaching one of them.

This is all well and good except this lady is really quite attractive, especially for an older woman. 'older' in this instance means thirty-something, apologies to anyone who considers this to be really quite young. The temptation for 'your mum' jokes is immense. Imagine I'm doing a sum on the board and make a mistake somewhere and I hear a: 'sir, you're doing it wrong'. How tempting would it be to come out with 'that's not what your mum said last night'? Or if they're complaining about how long it takes to draw a histogram. Well, you can come up your own punchlines.

It'll be agony.