As of today, Tuesday means the following:
- Get up, go to school (be there with a smile on my face by 7:00 a.m., thank you very much)
- Manage to make it through the day of attempting to teach things, and keep up with all the paperwork (show stuff--tickets, program information, scene change outlines, scene designs, props lists, t-shirt order forms, receipts, purchase orders, etc.) flying across my desk
- Around 3rd hour, taking migraine medicine with a can of Coke
- Get through both vocal and staging rehearsals with the kids
- Kick them out of my classroom, and stop by the concession stand (which is thankfully open because of the home basketball game) for a fattening pretzel to be eaten on the way to a different high school for my own class (in which I'm a student, not the teacher)
- Suffer through a 20-something year-old video on trends in education
- Leave class, stop by the store to pick up a few things (including the spray starch that I've been forgetting to buy for the last 2 weeks, rendering most of my clothing unwearable)
- Finally returning to my house at approximately 7:45 to hang out with my kiddos for a few minutes before bedtime
- Changing into running attire and heading (through the "Arctic Chill") to the Y for a 5+ mile run
- Finally getting home and moving the laundry along
- Computer socializing (my husband sent me an e-love-note!)
- When I'm done here, I'll be switching to Word so that I can type up my homework for my class, then I'll do a little work on show
- Then, I can finally go to bed in order to get up tomorrow and start all over again
2 comments:
You make me tired. I don't know how you do it, I just don't. Those kids at your school have no idea how lucky they are to have a teacher as dedicated as you are. You rock!
I'm not sure how I manage it, either. What i do know is that I will be going to bed early tonight (without a trip to the Y), and that my new student teacher ROCKS. She's already helping out with the show and helping fix the things I haven't had the time to fix. I am only going to get through the next 4 weeks because of her!!
Oh, and I'm pretty lucky to have most of the students I have, too. (A few of them not so much....)
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