A Thousand Years Later...

[dickinsons]

Not really, but it feels like it.

Remember those exams I was taking? I passed the first one but failed the second, so ehh. It was my first time failing an exam ever, though, so I'm grateful for the experience. You learn from failure, I guess.

And as soon as I got home that day I had decided I'd start watching the entire Robron storyline and that's exactly what I did. I finished yesterday, so here we are now. Assuming most of you need more context, let's get into it. I've been watching British soaps on and off for 11 years now. I'm Spanish, so they've never aired here, but I got into them because of a specific actor and since I loved the format I kept watching other soaps when a storyline sounded interesting. But I'd never dared to actually sit down and watch the Robron storyline, and yet when I heard that Robert Sugden came back to the show in May, well... I decided to finally watch it. And boy, did I love it. Of course, I got to know the recent state of the show in general, as well as its characters, and I love plenty of them. So, yeah, now you've got me waking up at 7am on weekdays to watch ED.

I'm jobless again now, since my last job finished in late May. I was teaching at a religious high school, which was certainly an Experience. The teens were lovely. Mostly. I'm not very good at managing them as of yet, which I hope changes with experience, because when you teach you do want them to learn, you know? Oh, well.

Due to everything life-related I dropped some bingos I was doing, even the one I was very close to finishing, which is a shame. I'm reluctant to join other events now, considering.

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Congrats on the passed exam, commiserations on the failed one.

So is that Emmerdale you're watching? I've never watched that, I'm more into Australian soaps like Neighbours, because I find the English ones too depressing 😅

I worked with teenagers for 10 years, it does take time to learn how to manage them, but they were very fun years.

Nice to see you back!

[dickinsons]

Thank you!

Yeah, it's Emmerdale! You're not the first person to tell me you prefer Australian soaps! How interesting. I've never watched any, but it's true we've talked about them before. Still, I can imagine them being not as depressing as the English ones. I mean, I keep having to stop watching when one of my faves is killed or sent to prison, which happens ALL THE TIME. It's a lot!

Aww, I know what you mean about them being fun years. It's exhausting but at the same time fun. Since I taught in town now I get teenagers saying hi to me every time I go out, haha. But they're so nice!

I'm glad to be back too <3 I keep neglecting this space for some reason.

[kitarella_imagines]

I think what it is with Brits and Australian soaps is THE WEATHER. It is usually cold, dark, rainy in Britain so when we switch on an Australian soap, it is sunny, warm, everyone is by the pool or on the beach. In the depths of winter, that's exactly what we need to see. It's August here but 2 days ago it poured with rain all day, it was cold and stormy. We don't get long hot summers so we can pretend we do by watching Aussie soaps.

I realised that teenagers often don't have positive role models in their lives so teachers and other school staff are very important. I was a teaching assistant and I worked in some very rough schools where kids had terrible lives, and school was the only positive thing they had. So I was happy that I could provide some kind of stability.

DW is a nice escape from the real world isn't it. People are more friendly.🥰