Eddie in Suffolk
6:30am – Wake up, get in the sun (if there is any!), make myself a coffee and make myself some breakfast
7:30am – Go over the day’s schedule and send it on Whatsapp to my mentee (who is probably yet to wake up)
8am – Exercise of some description, usually putting on my boots and heading off for a walk around the fields
9:30am – First session of the day. An hour and a half of English, looking at the key themes of the Tempest, planning an essay or having a debate on a critical interpretation.
11am – Break for fifteen minutes
11:15am – Pick up where we left off!
1pm – Lunch. I usually make something for myself, or my mentee kindly cooks us both lunch. Usually nice to have a bit of time apart so we don’t just continue our discussion and end up not resting our brains.
2pm – The mentee’s Dad and I go for a long walk with their dog Bear, chewing the cud.
2:30pm – We stop Bear from chasing a sheep.
3:05pm – We stop Bear from chasing a car.
3:30pm – Back home, boots off, ready for the afternoon’s session
4pm – History, Breadth Study – We swap roles and I become the mentee. I pick a topic at random and he teaches it to me as though I’ve never done the subject before. We then plan a past paper question separately – whatever he has to do, I have to do too, so there’s no simply setting a paper and twiddling my thumbs.
5:30pm – Well-deserved break.
5:45pm – We spend fifteen minutes reviewing today’s progress, and planning tomorrow’s sessions.
6pm – All done workwise. Dinner-time with the family.
7pm - I might join the family for a film, or read my book, or have an online session with another mentee, or stretch, or plan tomorrow’s sessions if we are doing a new topic.
9pm – Reading and then pretty quickly, asleep.
9:10pm – Bear wakes me up barking at something in the distance
9:15pm – Back to sleep.