I don't like 6am

At this point I feel like I will never be a morning person. Being perky at 6:15 when I wake up, or even 7:20 when I arrive at school is not easy. Luckily, classes don't start until 8:30, and I only have one 8:30 every week. I'm making coffee in the morning part of my routine...it helps wake me up a little.

There haven't really been any exciting new developments in my life since the end of my first week. I've been keeping my weekends to quiet, going out for a meal at least once and hanging out with the other teachers a bit. It's nice to sleep in until 10ish and not rush off anywhere. I got paid half my pay check for this month in advance the other day, so maybe I will try and plan some day trips on future weekends. It's nice to make money. :)

Classes are starting to have a sort of routine. I have a couple trouble classes, that simply don't like to listen to me. Since it's work for them to understand me, they often choose to go into ignore the teacher mode rather than try. It gets frustrating, but luckily it's just one of my 5 classes, and at least last week, my Friday afternoon kids. They just want to be done and not in my classroom. It can be hard to switch modes sometimes, when I have a lot of either my M2 classes or M5 classes in a row and then something different. It always takes a conscious effort to remember what that class is doing.

My M5's are presenting ordering food dialogues that they wrote this week. My gifted 5 class was a real treat today, they actually put effort into props. One group had a restaurant that served unicorn, termite, gecko or tick fries. It was quite amusing. Have I mentioned that I love my gifted classes? They are the most advanced and certainly most enthusiastic. Plus the class size is about half the regular.

The heat some days is intense. It's really draining teaching in it all day without a break. It saps my appetite a lot too, so I always end up having a tiny lunch. By my afternoon classes I'm dragging, yes, once I wake up I do have energy in the morning. Some food usually helps, unless the heat is just too intense. I'm done teaching by 2:20 everyday, but us teachers still have to be around until 4, when the last official period ends. It's a good time to do my paper work, but still by 4 I am probably more eager to get out of school than most of the students. They like to hang around, it seems like the school really serves as a hang out spot. There are plenty of food/drink vendors right outside the school gates at that time to cater to the students, and hanging out is something that it seems is encouraged.

Well, I hope that satisfied some curiosity. I can always answer questions if there are any...but...I'm not psychic! Also...procrastination. I'm going to return to being lazy now that I have written this. :P