9:48 London Time:
I've been busy and yet it feel like I have accomplished nothing in the last few days! I have added a little bit more to my cheesy website - nothing special. Unfortunately, I need to be able to download a couple of things and have not had access to the internet through my own computer. Hopefully, soon, so I can start using my Yahoo! Messenger. :)

We had an off-campus staff development day today. It was cool. Let me start by saying that the school I am teaching at is a Catholic school, so today, as part of the staff development, we had a Mass. Technically, I have been to two Masses in my life (one of which I can barely remember), that's it. I was raised a Jew, for those of you who don't know, so Christian religious ceremonies are not my specialty - I tend to follow what everyone else is doing, skipping the "Jesus" parts... Well, in this Mass, there were Hymn books, but as far as the other prayers (that everyone else in the room seemed to know by heart) I was lost. Then, they had communion. I seem to remember being told (in the one Mass that I actually remember attending) that if you are not Catholic, you shouldn't take communion. So, as everyone around me was getting up, the woman beside me leaned over and asked, "are you going?" Well, the woman beside me is new to the school, too, and she had been teaching in Malaysia for nine years. She also is obviously Hindi (I can't think of a PC way to say this, but she had the "dot" on her forehead), or at least NOT Catholic. When I explained what I had been told, she said, "are you sure?" Well, no, not really, but I just kept thinking of the Priest's face when she walked up to take communion. Oh my!! There were other people in the crowd that did not get up, so I held my place on the bench. Later, I learned that I should have been kneeling, but I took my cue from the rest of the group and the only people kneeling were the ones returning from the communion line... I'll know for next time (Thank you K! :) )

I met the most of the Science department and the head of the Geography department - everyone seems very nice! Tomorrow we'll go through my "timetables" and start talking about curriculum.