A long short week

So, last week, it was a 4 day week (woot Veteran's Day)... However, it ended up being a rather long week (at least it felt that way).

First of all, I caught the cold from hell. By the end of the week, I had basically completely lost my voice. It was rather ineffective in attempting to teach and make little kids be orderly. I rested up over the weekend and am back to normal :-D

Wednesday was ridiculous. First, my boss made the announcement that she's taking away our lesson planning time on Mondays and making us go to afterschool instead. Now, some of my teammates aren't using their Mondays for lesson planning and they certainly should go off and do service during that time. But I've already stayed late planning the past 3 weeks in a row. I don't mind staying late in the office, but I can't exactly be there until forever. Second, the licensing person came to my afterschool. So, while Gal & I ran PT with the youngest kids, Red made a mad dash around the school, making sure everything was in place so as not to get us shut down. Yeah, that was stressful enough. Towards the end of the day, a kid had a seizure in front of the licensing agent AND a group of kids. After all of this, we still had to go to a team dinner in JP which went until 10pm (i.e. I got home after 11pm and had to wake up at 5:45am the next morning). Wednesday night, needless to say, I got to suffer with the ill-effects of stress.

But, of course, not everything's bad. Even though there isn't much for me to do with my new 6th grade class (because they're the "Advanced" class), they're great kids. They sing to start every class and are generally polite and well-behaved. My civics kids are a bit rambunctious, but they are super-eager to learn, so I forgive them. Even my 7th graders aren't misbehaved. I somehow ended up with a bunch of middle-school kids who are actually well-behaved... And yet, maybe it's just that I've gotten along really well with middle-schoolers all along and this is no exception.

So, the beginning of this week is looking good so far. Monday, we performed PT at the EPA conference, which was fun. We also had to listen to a really boring econ lecture on the development of brownfields, which was fairly boring and resulted in even my bosses cracking jokes. Finally, we got to do service at my afterschool. We picked up glass and did some other landscaping. I absolutely love my afterschool and was so happy that we got to help out there... We'll even be back to some work in their library and paint some murals. Afterwards, of course, I stayed at the office until 7pm, lesson planning *sigh*

Today was pretty normal... I don't get to say that often and I'll take it. The one humourous story from today is that Red & Gal's 8th graders think that they're dating... yeah, I laughed forever about that.

I have 4 more days left of service (woot 6-day week), but we have a lot of service days, which are ALWAYS fun. And then, next week, we only have 2 days of work... hooray!