The Return From Boston

So, National Science and Engineering Week is over, and my time in Boston is at an end.
After much organising and re-organising, the days seemed to go pretty well, and I think the majority of the kids got something out of their days with me doing cool sciencey stuff relating to gravity and the Solar System. It's a real shame that this week's episode of Wonders of the Universe wasn't available to show the kids the clip with Brian Cox experiencing the gravitational effects that would be found on Neptune and Jupiter!
Further good news from the past week is that my on-line writing career seems to be picking up a bit, with my timely article Explaining Earthquakes to Children having attracted a fair amount of interest (and actually coming up on the first page of the relevant Google search).
The coming week should be a lot quieter, with just the usual bits of part-time teaching to contend with.
One of the down sides of being a part-timer seems to be that I am out of the loop in terms of planning. I seem to be expected to turn up and teach quality lessons without any information about what stage the students have got to. While I am a great believer in 'going with the flow' it doesn't really help in a professional capacity!
Also on the agenda for this week is a concerted effort at getting my advertising materials ready to go for my Freelance science activity days. The mission at hand (should I choose to accept it) is FIND CUSTOMERS!!