"Death is a Graduation"

It is with a heavy heart that I (Lucy) am writing this blog to tell you that I am leaving The Bucket Project.

Not because I particularly want to, or because I found something better, may I hasten to add! 

I absolutely love this project and I love my job, so it feels a bit counterintuitive to have to leave so soon, but an opportunity cropped up that I just could not refuse. I have wanted to be a teacher for many years, but haven't felt quite ready or confident enough to go for it in the past. I have blossomed quite a bit in my short but sweet period of time with the Bucket Project, which in turn gave me the confidence to apply for teaching one last time. I was offered a place to start this September, and after much deliberation I decided to go for it. I've got a place at Edge Hill University to do a Primary PGCE specialising in English. I'm also hoping to incorporate music in there somehow too as I'm a musician and music graduate, so I'd like to be that crazy teacher who does ukulele maths games and makes the kids sing their spellings!

If there's one thing working for this project has taught me, it's that you're never too young to make the most of life. Our project advocates planning for your death, but I also think we advocate planning for your life too - go and tick off that bucket list of yours! That's what I'm going to do. I would have loved to stay longer and perhaps put my teaching off until next year, but it was one of those things where if I didn't do it now, my courage might have disappeared again. I've always liked the above Elisabeth Kubler-Ross quote, and thought it was quite apt considering this time next year I will be hopefully be graduating again!

It means that my job is now available to apply for. If you are looking for an administrative post with a rather large dash of creativity involved, this may be for you! You can view the job online on Marie Curie's recruitment website. Since I've been here, I've set up this blog and tried to build up our social networking engagement, so it would be fabulous if the person who replaced me could carry that on and improve it even more. There are also lots of projects and events coming up to plan, so there's lots of fun to be had too. It's a fantastic job, a very worthwhile project and a lovely work environment - I couldn't recommend it enough.

I'm here until the end of August, so there will be a few more blog posts and suchlike from me until I take myself off to learn how to teach little people!