Hvilan in winter

I took this picture through the window at work today (hence the frame), it was a cold, clear and sunny day today. See how beautiful our apple orchard is in winter! This orchard is a remnant from the days when Hvilan was a boarding school but is widely appreciated by today's students too.

Not me!

There might be some really small and unsignificant burn marks in a table (or two) and just for the record - I had nothing what so ever to do with that!

Really, I didn't!

Proud teacher

A long day filled with presentations. I'm still in school, have redecorated the classroom where we'll move in on Monday morning, and I'm very tired but oh so proud.

My students this year is so inventive, so creative and so generous towards each other.

Now, homewards bound, just wanted to brag a little first.

Autumn leaves

Autumn is here, the crisp air, the tang of coldness in the morning that is almost, but not quite, a sign of frost. The leaves have not changed, yet, but are not as green as they were only a few days ago. The apples in the applegarden in school are ripe, and students have found them and enjoy them, and in the mornings the sky is so beautiful!



I do like this time of year!

Yikes!

A colleague just shared a Really Creepy Story with me over the 'net, I read it and replied an onomatopoetic 'Yikes!' To further foreground my reaction I made it big and red and underlined it.

It left her totally confused.

She figured it was some sort of abbreviation and tried to decipher it, to no avail. Since it isn't.

Communication is not to be taken for granted.

Old students

Our students go out into the big wild world and do amazing things, become amazing people and every now and then I come across them again. As I mentioned last week I've spent a few days at a university in a different part of the country. Today one of my fellow students posted this to say 'thank you and see you again in October' and to my suprise I find an old Hvilan student in the video and once again I'm proud to be able to show the world the musical talent of our students:

*tilt*

The first two weeks of school. Dear darling students, do you feel any hint of the utter chaos going on behind the curtains?

This year is worse than ever for me, I've been working almost non stop for two weeks now, and there's one more to go before everybody's settled in. To a different part of the country I'll go during next week too, oh such a great idea! Silly university, couldn't you have waited one more week? I will need to sit there and look as if I'm not only awake, but am also paying attention. Idealy I would actuall be paying attention too, but I fear my mind will stay with my own students.

This week an extra Sunday would be so welcome!

Library

This beautiful school has got a new library. It's very small and very nice, and I'm very happy to be able to show it to you:



I hope that in a few weeks it will not only be nice, but also frequented by students who will feel welcome and at home in it.