James Hunter

Not much has changed since my last post as I have not received a reply to the email I sent to my mentor. Thus I began to believe that she may have given me the wrong email as I would have expected a reply by now.

This has made me feel stressed as my placement has already been delayed enough due to the reasons mentioned in my previous blog post such as my own lack of urgency. Therefore I tried to make another attempt to speed up the process as I am now more motivated than ever to ensure I gain as many positives as I can from this experience.

A few days ago I was working in my airport job 6am-10am so I decided that I would go to my former school once my shift was finished. I drove there only to find the school closed with the shutters down leading me to the realisation that it was “October week” and the school was closed for both staff and pupils. This was frustrating as I was looking forward to speaking to my mentor in person in order to sort out the details of my placement arrangement. However on the other hand it also gave me clarity as to why my email has not been answered yet as obviously my mentor will not be looking at her school email during her week off.

Despite another setback in sorting my placement I plan to go to my school on Monday if I do not receive a reply to my email in the morning. While this may not give my mentor much of an opportunity to actually see the email I want to minimise any further postponement of starting my placement.