*Sleep...*
The thing about graduate programs is this... it RUINS your SLEEP SCHEDULE! %&#*$@%...
I taught my first class today as a Masters student. Doesn't feel any different, and I definitely didn't feel any wiser about teaching... but it's a powerful feeling, teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Pretty neat...
I've also just come out of a 3-day workshop. My WHOLE weekend was consumed by this workshop! And quite honestly, I really didn't think it was all that helpful. I was expecting a lot more help and tips about teaching adults during the workshop. I figure since they were making 17 of us spend 7 hours a day cooped up in a 20X20 room, the weekend before we're plunged into our 10-week teaching marathon... they'd give us something USEFUL. I was definitely disappointed and rather angry about wasting my time there, instead of developing my lesson plans and course direction.
SO... I guess my plans for a relaxing weekend this coming weekend is out of the question. Instead, I'm going to have to spend the weekend working on my plans and catching up on my reading. As much as I love it here, and how really great this school is... I sometimes question whether or not people DO think of others. Are people really this egocentric?
Funny... I was talking to my mum just now, and she warned me about NOT letting "boys" interfere with my studies. To which I replied: "I don't even have time to sleep, do you think I have time to look at boys?". It really wasn't until that moment that it occurred to me that I'm completely swamped here...
Oh my goodness. I just realised that I don't have my Starbucks Tea Flask with me. I left it in my classroom just now while I was giving my students a tour of the school. I didn't bring it back with me, but I had cleared my room before I left. Someone must've swiped it while I was on that 5 minute tour of the school. THIS SUCKS! I'm so saaaaaaaad.... *SOB*...~