Monday, February 02, 2009

Scratch that, TEACHING EATS YOUR LIFE!!!

Oh my god. I am going to eat my words. Right now.
I used to say that teaching is only a job I do, once I step out of school, it's RELAX MODE WOOHOO!
NOT!

The other night I was in bed at around 10pm about to fall asleep when this thought suddenly hit me. "I should teach my Mandarin students about the Zodiac animals!! It ties in with Chinese New Year!" So I hopped out of bed and did lots of research on the Zodiac animals, the list of animals, the history of the zodiac (race) and then decided, I need more information for CNY. And that started off a whole new search for CNY resources!

Guess what time I went to bed in the end... 1.30AM.

And then this morning, I got up at 5.45am just so I could reach school at 7am to do major photocopying. I swear, thank god we teachers don't have a quota or have to pay for photocopying... Us LOTE (Language Other Than English) teachers have been photocopying so much, the numbers have surely hit the roof. We're just praying we don't get a call from the Registrar (they're in charge of accounts) saying, "Um guys, can you please stop photocopying/printing so much?" LOL.

I have absolutely no life right now. Everything is just lesson plans, thinking about resources for my lessons.. I have not touched ANY of my cosplays at all. It is so sad. So sad to the point that my Science Head of Department and Kevin (Japanese teacher) is asking me when my next cosplays are gonna be. *cries* Haha...

And to top it off, the principal (OMG SHE KNOWS MY NAME... I AM SO INTIMATED AND FLATTERED AT THE SAME TIME!!!) IMPLORED me to take on this new subject called IcIs (Intercultural Investigations) where I teach the low literacy students about different cultures.

Holy crap. I'm a first year teacher, teaching 3 different subjects, one of which I am not qualified for, and now might need to start planning a different subject (although still related to LOTE).... I'M SURPRISED I HAVEN'T CAVED IN TO THE PRESSURE YET!!! *pullshair*

At the very least, if I DO end up taking IcIs this year, I might very well be secured in my job next year at Corinda because I will be the only teacher who knows how to teach IcIs (a Chinese teacher who is able to teach the Chinese culture? How often does that come by?)

But man. It's all about the resources. I really need to get a car just so I can drive to the QLD LOTE Centre to borrow resources. (Photocopy through the roof again! xD) Apparently we can get up to 100 items a month. *waggles eyebrows* 8D

Posted by chibified kitsunes at 18:14