I've started my teaching course and I'm 3 weeks in to a 10 month course. So hopefully if all goes well this time next year I'll be a qualified teacher. I've a mass of work to produce in the the next few months and that's on top of lesson plans and actual teaching.

But before that I'm going to be included in an O'Reilly book. I've never bought an IT book, always preferred something with more of a story, so it's a strange to think I'll be in one of them.

Also I've spent the last few weeks developing a site for Valleys Built Heritage which is an organisation based in the south wales valleys to aid the redevelopment of the area in particular valleys houses.

Recently I've been running an evening class on a Wednesday night at Wyedean School. It's been invaluable help to me as I prepare to train to become a fully fledged high school teacher in September.

Hopefully, I'll be able to do more work on the site, I've had loads of ideas in the last 4 months, you tend to have time to think to yourself when you're stuck on a motorway for 3 hours a day. So shortly I'll be able to post some new stuff.

Things to look for are an installer for Browser Launcher and something even more incredible.

I had an interview yesterday with a university to see if I could take a place there as a PGCE student.

So that's it, the first step on the ladder to becoming a secondary school maths teacher. Teaching is really in the blood for me, except for my brother every member of my immediate family has been in the profession. I'm just a bit annoyed that it's taken me 10 years since leaving university to realise that it isn't as bad as it is portrayed.

I'm looking forward to joining a profession that is rewarding, challenging and most of all continually changing. Not that IT isn't any of these things, just that for 10 years in the industry the challenge has mostly evaporated, the rewards have diminished and to be fair adding and reading data from SQL server hasn't changed that much.

I start the course in September so now I must find a way to fund myself as far as possible through the duration of the course, and possibly squeeze in a few days in a local school. I've just finished a contract so finding some work that starts as soon as possible will be my next challenge.

I also need to find the perfect answer to the ever-asked question:

"But, what use is solving a simultaneous equation to me in the real world?"

Answers on a postcard to the usual address.

It seemed that my teaching has had some positive effect already: I was given a bottle of wine off the students this weekend.

So tonight was the final lesson that I taught. I think that it went quite well, I certainly enjoyed myself and most if not all the projects will have completed the coding section. It's now up to them to complete the rest of the written work, and the results will be out sometime in August.

Our move is now only two days away and something I'm tempted to do is to teach an evening class in some IT related subject. Mind you considering I have to plumb in a central heating system, it's dubious as to whether I'll have time to do anything at all for the next few months.