Gone to school

Today, the only thing that I did was go to school. Since I had slept really late… early around 6am and woke up around 1pm, I didn’t have much time to do anything. I wanted to finish cleaning and maybe even do some laundry, but that didn’t happen. I had to get ready and go to school. That was the main thing for the day. I grabbed some lunch at Yoshinoya and then went to work. I was a little bit late since we had agreed to meet at 4pm and I showed up around 4:15pm. But that didn’t matter because CP showed up around 4:45pm and we couldn’t start without her. I was seeing some parents around school meeting with teachers I’m assuming.

The meeting was able our schedule and which classes which teacher would be leading. I am taking the lead for 8 classes of the 21 oral communication classes at my school. It’s not that big of a number, but I’m not including the 2 extra classes for one student. I’m doing one per grade and all of the 11th grade classes. I’m not too worried about anything, but I’m not liking that CP will have to be in the room too while I teach. It’s in her contract that she has to be in all of the classes, so there’s not much I could do about that. But I’m going to be helping her with lightening the load of classes. We have Tuesday and Wednesdays loaded up with 6 classes each day. I requested to take 4 of those classes off since I’m on a different agreement than her, but I’m still doing way more than I am assigned to do. I will be in 20 classes when my contract is only for 15, so I’m doing more than I’m getting paid for. But I’m not really worried about that. I find it more enjoyable than anything.

The meeting lasted around 4 hours to talk to all the different grade heads to punch out the syllabus and tie up other loose ends. I’m really excited that I will be able to take on the lead role in some of the classes. Even though I know that CP will step in and try to take over, it’s in her nature. I know what I’m doing and it’s going to mess the flow of things, but we’ll see how things go. She might even leave after this semester because she might get paid less. That’s not something that she wants so I believe that there are some tough times ahead for her and for the school to have to make some decisions about what to do. I think the people that I will be working with are going to be very good, so I’m super excited about that and now I know what I need to get done so I can finally start planning the rest of the year. It’s a shame that it’s all at the last minute, but at least I have it.

I was one of the last teachers to leave the school again. I mean there were only about 5 left after me. That’s quite rare, and I think it sucks for them because they still had a lot more work left too and it was already past 8pm and it was a Saturday.

I grabbed dinner at Mos Burger, which was pretty good. Then I came home swiftly and started to work on my website and updating my pictures. So now that things are starting to wrap up with that, I’m getting happier. I’ll post the link later since there are still some pages that I haven’t even started, but I wanted to get those done first before I release the final version. I’ll need to do that soon, since school will be starting and I won’t have too much time to take care of that, once things start picking up. But I did take the time to finish writing this entry. So now I won’t be falling behind either.