The Mays’ Weblog

Well hi there folks.
It is 5.02 on Saturday morning here and I am sitting at my desk at school. We are nearing the end of a 7th grade ‘lock-in’. This is not a punitive measure but is in fact designed for pleasure. Basically we stay up all night here at school supervising 40 12/13 year olds doing crazy things, playing games and watching films. Some sleep but most do not. We ordered Pizza at 10.00 and then went for a midnight swim in the pool for an hour. This was followed by 3 games of ‘sneak’ around the school. This involved the students sneaking around the school trying to find a hidden doll on the third floor, in the dark, while we patrolled as wardens with torches to try to catch them. They could go anywhere in the school or grounds other than most classrooms which were locked. I spotted one boy from outside the front of the school as he had climbed out of a window onto a flat roof and then up an access ladder onto a higher roof to evade detection. Needless to say we added some rule about not climbing out of windows as we started the third game at 3.00 this morning…His identity has been withheld for security reasons….my job security.
I have managed to get away for a breather as I have a 7th grade test to write. Not quite what I want to be doing at this hour of the night but no point in going to sleep now. I am following the old SAS guideline that anything less than 4 hours is better not had at all.
Well, words are failing me, as are other parts of my body and mind, so I will stop typing while still reasonably comprehensible. Besides which, there is a particular piece of cold pizza which has just come to mind as an attractive idea. Its funny what the body wants when it senses that the end of sanity is close…

Bye for now,
Andrew

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