School's nearly out for the year

Two more weeks to go, then school's out.
I'm really enjoying these last few weeks. Everything's just a little more relaxed; I've planned units that have a purpose (so the kids understand why we're studying them), yet are hopefully still enjoyable and appropriate to the end of school year.

I'm looking forward to next week when, let's face it, we'll just watch movies! Not all week. But the last 2 periods of the week! Yay! I'm looking forward to it as much as they are. No planning for me, no working for them. We're all happy.
It might seem like a cop-out, not working. But seriously, trying to get them to do work at the end of any term is hard enough, let alone the last term, after we've had exams and everything!!

My Spanish classes are doing food units - cos that always gets them interested and motivated! And my English classes are doing static images and stereotyping - which is quite fun. In the class doing stereotypes, most of them had never heard the word 'stereotype' before, and if they had, no one could tell me what it meant. But they all knew how to do it! I put up heaps of stereotyped images on the board, eg, of country stereotypes, gender, jobs, etc - and they could all identify them straight away. For example, put up a picture of a man with a beret, moustache, stripy shirt, red neck-scarf, and drinking wine - they all instantly identified him as French, which was great. They already knew stereotypes without knowing the word.
It was then cool cos we could move into huge stereotypes involving countries. Recently, a video came to my attention about Radi-Aid: Africa For Norway, Radi-Aid. (Go watch it, if you haven't already). It's great, and really challenged my class to look at what they think about their stereotypes, particularly in this case, what they think about Africa. Cutely though, some students asked me how many heaters the Africans managed to send to Norway. :)

Anyways... fun lessons aside... I'm really looking forward to the end of school. It's a fun time of year.

I don't have a job lined up for next year. I should be worried. But I'm kinda not. Well, not yet anyway. I'm just planning on looking forward to the Christmas/summer holidays, spending time with friends and family.
Then I'll worry about a job after that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still applying for jobs now, but I haven't had any luck really. It's not a fun job market at the moment, for anyone, but especially language teachers.
But there's no point me stressing about it when there's nothing I can actually do to change it. I do my best; make up my CV's and send them out; I wait patiently; I do what I can. I just want to enjoy life and not worry about all those things. And if I end up not being able to teach next year, well, I'll worry about that next year :)

2 more weeks of school...  then I'll be going home for Christmas. Yay! :)