I can't handle having to plan a lesson for every single freakin' day. I'm so exhausted when I get home from the school (even though I'm only teaching one class!) that I get no work done till after supper, and even then I rarely get anything done till, well, now-ish. Then it's up early, causing me to feel exhausted all day, collapsing when I get ( Read more... )

Much better day today than yesterday. No kids to deal with, just P.D. meetings, which were boring. The staff was meeting at a different school, I slept in longer than I should have, couldn't find parking, and I got lost trying to find the library. So I was a few minutes late for the meeting and the room was arranged so that everybody saw me. ( Read more... )

Did my first lesson of the new semester today! It went pretty well, considering that it was the last class of the day on an early dismissal day. Still need to work on my management skills so that a couple of the hormonally-charged kids don't get too crazy and stay on-task, but the kids did their work and seemed to have a good time. Mission ( Read more... )

Am still trying to get myself into the headspace of a teacher. Just got a forward from the travel agent who's taking care of the Thailand trip. The message said she needed to gather information from "the teachers" for flight insurance ( Read more... )