Vacation? What Vacation? Is that food?

I have been logging in and out of Facebook lately, and I could say that the students are already damn bored of their vacation that they are so ready to go back to school.

This, for me, made me realize that the school year is about to start and I still haven't got the hang of my so-called "vacation." I mean, I'm still fed up going to school because of paper work and that so wrong advanced English classes. It didn't help at all. The students are refreshed, but I'm still stressed and fed up. Go figure. It also doesn't help that we will report to work starting the 16th. My problem is that those three weeks before classes should be spent writing and refining our lesson plans and not warming the chairs in our auditorium listening to some "expert" blabbering about what we should do inside our classrooms.

Come June and the students are refreshed, eager to learn, but I am still pissed off.

End of School Year Blues

I am just blinks away from the end of the school year.

And I am fucking loving it.

 

So I renewed my contract and all, but it doesn't mean that I like the school. No, I just did that so I wouldn't have difficulties looking for another school. I don't want them asking me why I left the school for only a year, because I don't want to tell them that I freaking hate the TOO much paperwork. I need to save my neck, you see. At least if I stayed for two years, then there is the possibility that they'll think the school where I came from sucks. So, on with my 2-year stay.

I have been making my incoming absence in the lives of my students felt. Today is my last day of classes with them and most of them, well, feel relieved or sad that they wouldn't see me again given that they would have a different teacher next year.

It has been a stressful year for me. I could only count on my fingers the moments when I felt that I am happy with what I am doing. Being the natural worrier that I am doesn't help me at all either. There were days when I felt that I am not human anymore, that I am just waking up and teaching these students just for compliance and for covering the necessary unnecessary information that they need to know to be unloaded on their test papers.

Today, however, I felt that I am going to miss my students.

 

But I do not want to be stuck with them for another year, so...

Go on bastards.

Not looking forward to another school year either.