This week was my second week at the school, covering the food tech classes. It was another good week and this time I had to supervise online classes. One teacher is at school but has to shield by doing limited classes. She teaches with a webcam in one room, I supervise the students in another room watching her. Another teacher is teaching from home full time due to shielding. Interesting learning curve as I didn't have to do that at home.
No adventures during the week but today I took myself to the next suburb to the Ealing Farmers Market. Turns out it is quite a small market so it didn't take long to explore.
A short walk from West Ealing to Ealing resulted in the discovery of a food market (lunch food). The choices today: gozleme, souvlaki, biriyani, nasi goreng, biltong, german sausages and steak & chips. I chose the steak and chips. It was called marinated bavette, which I googled and discovered it is a flank steak. It was served with wild mushroom & black truffle sauce and it was absoltely delicious.
Ealing is quite a busy area and there are some cool buildings. There is also a Marks & Spencer, large Tesco Metro and the new and unique Amazon Fresh supermarket. The Amazon Fresh concept is great. You get the QR code from the Amazon app on your phone, scan the code to get access to the store, grab the items you want, put them in your bag and then walk out. Like literally put the items in your handbag or backpack and just walk out the front door. The system somehow senses the items you take off the shelf and when you walk out the door they charge the credit card you have on file with Amazon. No registers, no queues. It was a cool, novelty experience.
Another interesting experience today. Sitting at the train station I hear a rumble and then all of a sudden a train goes absolutely flying through the station at a hundred miles an hour (literally!! I asked a station attendant!). So unbelievably fast through a station. They are the trains that head out to the country and they don't stop at many city stations.
That's all for this weekly update. On Monday we are allowed to do day trips and school finishes on Wednesday so next weekend over Easter I will hopefully be able to get out and see the countryside. Yay!