On Monday I started my Primary PGCE course at the University of Southampton, and so far it's going pretty well. it's much music much more work than an undergrad degree, but i always expected that. There's a lot of emphasis on 'independent learning' (i.e. 5 page book lists for each subject!) so that'll take a little getting used to, but I'm enjoying the academic side of things so far.

On the social side, I've met some really cool people, although with the majority of my good friends in life being male, I'm a bit disappointed by the 1:15 male:female ratio! Ah well, the girls seem pretty cool too. :)

It's good to have finally got started with this... and as the head of department has told us several times - only 37 weeks to go until I am (hopefully) a qualified teacher.

As Ben pointed out yesterday, that's even shorter than a pregnancy....!