This morning started out poorly. I was tired, stressed, and worried about how school would be. I got ready and got to the bus stop. When I got to school, I slipped in and sat on the edge until the main meeting was over (as I always do) and then greeted my coworkers and the principal and vice-principals and went to my desk. I had so much to do, and got started on it right away.
I believe I told you yesterday that my 2 lessons for today were cancelled and then they added a new class (another second grade class). So today, my only lesson was my self-introduction plus superstitions. It was fairly easy to prepare and I got to work on all of my other outstanding lessons (including the ones I'm teaching tomorrow). I have never been this far behind and I wasn't enjoying the feeling. In fact, it's 20h17 and I JUST finished working. (As soon as I got home, I started working here.) *sigh* I also have to go to the office Friday. I wish that when I was off from school... I was actually off from school! Sheesh! In any case, I worked until it was time to teach and then went and taught my second second grade class.
Class went really well. One girl gasped when she saw me (I scared her I guess.. "A wild Ann appears!"), and some of the boys were like, "Oh nooooo!" I just laughed at them. The lesson went VERY well (up until superstitions, then they sort of lost interest and just talked to one another :/ ... I tried to get them back with me then the bell rang). They, RIGHT AWAY, were imitating me. They asked me what was my favorite pet and so I told them how I like animals but I was allergic to dogs, cats, and birds. To help them understand "allergic," I pretended to sneeze. It was a pretty girly little sneeze. Next thing I know, there's a group of boys in the corner imitating me. HAHAHA! Those girly sneezes coming from them made my day. The class just went really well and I'm sooo grateful for that (mmm). I wonder what this means for my work load. I already am barely getting to every class each week as I have so many. If they add that class, that will make 15 classes. I don't mind teaching a lot of classes, but I can't teach, and grade, and write new text, AND do all my lesson planning for all those classes in one afternoon. Yuck. They STILL haven't given me the SLP for next week. It's really awful. I want to be a week ahead of my students (at the very least), not a day. Even at Walden where I only taught Tuesdays and Thursdays, I knew exactly where we were going and usually was at least 2 weeks ahead of them. In any case... hopefully I won't get TOO many new lesson plans to do tomorrow.
At one point during the day, the teacher that yelled at me approached me. I had a MAJOR fight or flight response. He just wanted to talk about the next time we teach together, but in the meantime... I hope I stop having heart attacks every time he walks up to me. :/ So parts of my day were tense and I wolfed down my lunch so I could keep working and now I'm working at home... At least I can take satisfaction in it finally being done! I'm finally done planning for this week two days shy of it ending. :/ I don't like that! In any case, I plan on getting enough sleep tonight that I don't wake up crying tomorrow morning.
Side note: sorry if my blog is more down than up lately. I'm trying to bounce back from yesterday and then just feeling lonely. Each day I try to improve. When Oikawa-sensei saw the lesson plan and worksheet I made for tomorrow he clapped. He said it was very good! I joked about FINALLY getting it after being there more than a month. *sigh* But still, better than any time later. --I feel like the worksheet is WAY too easy but I have been overestimating my students' abilities with English to their detriment. :/ So I keep endeavoring to do better if for no other reason to not get yelled at again! (Really, I care about the students and I want them to love learning - so if they need much easier worksheets, I will supply them as best I can!)
Congrats to all you finishing up school right now (whether teaching or a student). It's trippy being here and knowing that the school year just STARTED. I've spent the majority of my life finishing in April-June and now I'm starting in it. .. Weird. In any case, all my best! XOXO, A
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