Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

At The Fairground

Soundtrack to My Life - Track four

I think my favourite teacher was my very last teacher in primary school before moving onto secondary school (high school). Looking back, I think Mr Fitzgerald was one of only two male teachers in the whole school. So I guess it was slightly odd. But, still, I thought he was awesome. I often think of him… 18 years on.
I’m not sure there is necessarily anything I do now that I can attribute to Mr F. Nevertheless, he was highly creative, funny, kind and managed to make learning fun. We were forever doing crazy projects just to “see what happens” and I really appreciated that.
He was also the only teacher I knew who had a full, all singing, all dancing stereo in his classroom. This means I actually have three tracks that remind me of Mr F’s class in 1995-1996.

Sometimes when we were doing work, Mr F liked to play music. I’m pretty sure that, for about four months, the guy got obsessed with today’s track. It felt like it was on repeat the entire time. He did offer a reason as to why he wanted to play it to us. But I cannot remember what it was. It can’t have been a very convincing reason.

Simply Red - Fairground