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god damnit!!! im having a lot of problems with teaching the little children lately. Basically, yesterday I didn't show up. I thought I was supposed to teach on wed this week, but i was wrong, and i got a miffed voicemail from one of the teachers asking if i was going to 'decided to show up to work'. obviously, i was mortified. i was too terrified to call the woman back (i hate confrontation) so i wrote a long and really nice email, apologizing and thanking her for letting me work in her classroom. I wrote about how much i love the kids, how much i'm learning, and how my not showing up was a total accident and not a malicious sign of disrespect. she emailed me back 'you may return next week'. ack. why does she hate me so much? so i went down to the main office and checked out the writing anthology from the class I'm teaching now, but from last year with a different creative writing teacher. the work in the anthology was mind bogglingly terrible. i realized, suddenly, that i am doing a good job. the kiddies always have a lot of fun, and their work is amazingly good. so now it makes me really angry that my teacher hates me. I am sure she is going to write me a shitty review at the end of the semester-- but i am doing a good job god damnit. im a poet. scheduling is hard for me.
anyway, on the happiness front, i got nominated for a scholarship to the sewanee writers' conference. i still have to apply, but if i get in then i will be going to TN for the last 2 weeks of July (home early from argentina).
anyway, on the happiness front, i got nominated for a scholarship to the sewanee writers' conference. i still have to apply, but if i get in then i will be going to TN for the last 2 weeks of July (home early from argentina).