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So. Um. Today's not going too well.
Though I'm not actually upset. Just... tense.
Why?
WELL.
Morning. 6 hours of sleep after being 4 minutes late on electronic submission for an assignment, and praying that prof is ok, since it's 4 minute and they're usually pretty accommodating.
Get up, get ready, get ride to bus station, mom gives me umbrella, take bus to near school, walk rest of the way. Get to school, room is open, but no AT (Associate Teacher, ie the person whose class I'm in). I assume she's in a practice or something, but have doubts because the schedule says otherwise.
School starts. AT comes to class, there was practice after all. Music all morning, spent a little under a third of the first two classes counting time on the clock while students set up instruments. Next class practices a song, so cacophony with a very loud drum (the fact I was sitting near it didn't help >.<). Recess. NEXT class is a double period, I get called out near the end, along with all the other TCs (Teacher candidates, ie Student teachers). The principal wants us to help look after the kids, since he wants to keep them in for the first half of lunch recess.
So, lunch recess. We have the first twenty minutes -- the lunch part, to eat and such. Then I go to the classroom. We were told the supervisor would be in there with us -- there was me and another TC. With all the intermediates. The supervisor... leaves right away. So it's just the two of us. And the kids are, of course, kinda.... hyper and such. It's lunch recess, that afternoon they're allowed to have gum. And more kids keep on coming in. The other guy, he's pretty comfortable, he's an extrovert, he's going around and talking with different groups. I'm... more wandering, kind of supervising.
At the end of THAT twenty minutes it's pouring. So, um, other twenty minutes also inside. With just the two of us. And more intermediates joining us as they came back from their lunch excursions. About ten minutes before end of recess, a gaggle of girls all want to go to the washroom. I tell them to go one or two at a time. They're all like "I NEED TO GOOOO"!!! I don't know whether it's the other TC saying, or them just going, but some kids are just going in and out anyway....... >.< In short, not a good setup. >.< At all.
And I got like, no introvert time. And my AT comes back at the end of it and said she was avoiding coming to the room BECAUSE she knew all the kids were in there.
So, yeah. I was kind of tense after that.
After that, triple period with the other grade 7 class (ie the one that's not my AT's). For language. They were supposed to be doing silent reading.... but let's do some math, shall we?
Indoor recess
Friday before long weekend
Allowed to have gum when they normally cant
Triple period
+ silent reading
?
I'll give you a hint. Not a lot of on-task-ness. At all. >.>
They actually weren't that noisy. But she wanted them on-task. And there was a lot of whispering and... I love how students don't get that the moment you turn your back on them doesn't mean you won't notice if they start up again. ...and yet I know I did that too. XD and... sometimes still do. -_-
Anyway, yeah. There was an assignment at the end of class, in period 3 of 3. Students had to try and guess definitions to words. AT was pretty fed-up by then, and the kids were... yeah, not exactly behaving by this point. So she kept them in during recess still working until they were done. And that was... most of recess. Which was indoor anyway, so my class came back at that point and... yes.
My class had lab and then one period. And that was pretty good. I got a little introvert time because I needed to convert a file on my laptop for a student, because I could and the school computers couldn't. XD
They did the same activity as the previous class. And, it proved what my AT says about them. The first class is more academic, but less well-behaved. Her class is a little lower academically, but better behaved.
Though apparently both classes got considerably lower than what she's used to seeing classes doing on that scramble. Heh.
Then, end of day. Debriefing, talked about some stuff for next week, including what I'll probably do my first lesson on, and getting seating plans, so I can, um, LEARN NAMES? Yeah. -_-;
Then go home. Have assignment due I need to finish up. Have cake first, then start working. and... other stuff.
Am done at about 8:15, get ready to send it off. Find out the due TIME was 8pm. PANIC. Email it to prof at 8:20. PANIC MORE.
Thankfully, she emailed me back saying that the due time was SUPPOSED to be midnight, she also emails everyone to tell them that. But yeah, that was panicy.
So. That was my today.
Can you see why I'm tense? OTL
And I still have no friggin clue if anything at all is happening this weekend. OTL
I want to do something...... I need to see friends or something. It's been a good two weeks since I've had solid friend time. Like, I had two hours last Sunday, and that was good, but it's not a lot. And didn't really involve too much chilling or whatever. ToT
Need more time. And more awesomeness. And more bunnies.
Though I'm not actually upset. Just... tense.
Why?
WELL.
Morning. 6 hours of sleep after being 4 minutes late on electronic submission for an assignment, and praying that prof is ok, since it's 4 minute and they're usually pretty accommodating.
Get up, get ready, get ride to bus station, mom gives me umbrella, take bus to near school, walk rest of the way. Get to school, room is open, but no AT (Associate Teacher, ie the person whose class I'm in). I assume she's in a practice or something, but have doubts because the schedule says otherwise.
School starts. AT comes to class, there was practice after all. Music all morning, spent a little under a third of the first two classes counting time on the clock while students set up instruments. Next class practices a song, so cacophony with a very loud drum (the fact I was sitting near it didn't help >.<). Recess. NEXT class is a double period, I get called out near the end, along with all the other TCs (Teacher candidates, ie Student teachers). The principal wants us to help look after the kids, since he wants to keep them in for the first half of lunch recess.
So, lunch recess. We have the first twenty minutes -- the lunch part, to eat and such. Then I go to the classroom. We were told the supervisor would be in there with us -- there was me and another TC. With all the intermediates. The supervisor... leaves right away. So it's just the two of us. And the kids are, of course, kinda.... hyper and such. It's lunch recess, that afternoon they're allowed to have gum. And more kids keep on coming in. The other guy, he's pretty comfortable, he's an extrovert, he's going around and talking with different groups. I'm... more wandering, kind of supervising.
At the end of THAT twenty minutes it's pouring. So, um, other twenty minutes also inside. With just the two of us. And more intermediates joining us as they came back from their lunch excursions. About ten minutes before end of recess, a gaggle of girls all want to go to the washroom. I tell them to go one or two at a time. They're all like "I NEED TO GOOOO"!!! I don't know whether it's the other TC saying, or them just going, but some kids are just going in and out anyway....... >.< In short, not a good setup. >.< At all.
And I got like, no introvert time. And my AT comes back at the end of it and said she was avoiding coming to the room BECAUSE she knew all the kids were in there.
So, yeah. I was kind of tense after that.
After that, triple period with the other grade 7 class (ie the one that's not my AT's). For language. They were supposed to be doing silent reading.... but let's do some math, shall we?
Indoor recess
Friday before long weekend
Allowed to have gum when they normally cant
Triple period
+ silent reading
?
I'll give you a hint. Not a lot of on-task-ness. At all. >.>
They actually weren't that noisy. But she wanted them on-task. And there was a lot of whispering and... I love how students don't get that the moment you turn your back on them doesn't mean you won't notice if they start up again. ...and yet I know I did that too. XD and... sometimes still do. -_-
Anyway, yeah. There was an assignment at the end of class, in period 3 of 3. Students had to try and guess definitions to words. AT was pretty fed-up by then, and the kids were... yeah, not exactly behaving by this point. So she kept them in during recess still working until they were done. And that was... most of recess. Which was indoor anyway, so my class came back at that point and... yes.
My class had lab and then one period. And that was pretty good. I got a little introvert time because I needed to convert a file on my laptop for a student, because I could and the school computers couldn't. XD
They did the same activity as the previous class. And, it proved what my AT says about them. The first class is more academic, but less well-behaved. Her class is a little lower academically, but better behaved.
Though apparently both classes got considerably lower than what she's used to seeing classes doing on that scramble. Heh.
Then, end of day. Debriefing, talked about some stuff for next week, including what I'll probably do my first lesson on, and getting seating plans, so I can, um, LEARN NAMES? Yeah. -_-;
Then go home. Have assignment due I need to finish up. Have cake first, then start working. and... other stuff.
Am done at about 8:15, get ready to send it off. Find out the due TIME was 8pm. PANIC. Email it to prof at 8:20. PANIC MORE.
Thankfully, she emailed me back saying that the due time was SUPPOSED to be midnight, she also emails everyone to tell them that. But yeah, that was panicy.
So. That was my today.
Can you see why I'm tense? OTL
And I still have no friggin clue if anything at all is happening this weekend. OTL
I want to do something...... I need to see friends or something. It's been a good two weeks since I've had solid friend time. Like, I had two hours last Sunday, and that was good, but it's not a lot. And didn't really involve too much chilling or whatever. ToT
Need more time. And more awesomeness. And more bunnies.
