Posted on 04 May 2011 at 07:29h

Yesterday I did my first exam invigilation of the season. This is probably the most boring aspect of being a teacher.  I guess it's not bad being paid for doing absolutely nothing but that doesn't make it any easier.  The shoes in the photo were left outside the exam room, maybe one of the students thought that removing their shoes would make them think better. Shoes are a good thing to focus on. I don't want to disturb the students so I find that looking at their feet whilst walking around has the effect of making me invisible. Whilst looking at shoes I have noticed an interesting trend. Two years ago the majority of student wore converse baseball boots now there was only one pair out of about 60 students. Converse are obviously out. Good job too, they really aren't very practical in wet Norway. If I sit at the back no one can see me so I don't have to focus on shoes any more it is then that I noticed two interesting facts. Firstly all the girls except one had tied their hair up. Had they arranged this is was it purely coincidental? If I had been the loose hair girl  think I would have borrowed one of the elastic bands used to bind the papers together. Secondly two Latin American students were wearing hoodies with the hood up. Looking forward to my next invigilation to collect more data.