Look mum, no hands!!

With my arms up in the air, screaming like one of those girls I really despise, the ride begins faster than I could ever have expected.
This is my first attempt at writing a blog and after an hour of punching the keyboard and yelling at the screen of my computer I am finally here, writing it. I had never even considered blogging until this morning, when during my weekly blues at 'Monday morning being just around the corner' I realised I couldn't take it anymore. There has to be more to life than marking books and setting targets for GCSE exams. There has to be more to my mind than this!
Feeling trapped by my conditioning I found myself doing what I thought I should do rather than what I wanted to do. My mind was going to sleep in the cosy area of my head usually reserved for really hard math problems or the bit that has the ability to learn Japanese. I was stuck inside a mental life of dumbing down literary classics that I adored and reading poetry to unimpressed teenagers 'far too cool for school'.
So feeling like a very stupid bear in a very small cage I requested the help of a very kind person to give me some advice on how I could motivate my brain into doing something it might find remotely challenging. The answer came back to me - through the very kind person - and made me feel like a slightly larger bear in an even smaller cage.
"Why don't you write?" Said the very kind person, stroking my fur from behind the safety of the bars. "You have the talent, you have the brains, why don't you do it instead of teaching it?"
Weeell, mostly because it's too hard. I wouldn't know where to start, let alone what to write about.
So the very kind person opened the cage, picked me up (a very strong person for such a big bear) and shoved me onto the rollercoaster, saying, "Just put your arms up in the air..."
"Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!"
Here I am still riding, sometimes hanging upside down, sometimes frightened, sometimes hoping a screw doesn't come loose, but I haven't crapped myself yet.

I don't know where this blog is leading me, but I hope that in the coming months there will be many different rides - although I don't like the spinny ones - and that I will be able to keep my arms up in the air and shout proudly:
"Look mum, no hands!!"