Week 2 of the New Year contains many aches and pains--both physical and metaphorical! Tuesday was a bit of a struggle getting into the gym, but I did it! Could not quite jog as much because my legs felt like jello and my thighs were pulsing from the Hip Abductions (hope I got it right honey!). By Wednesday I was wrecked! Now mind you I started out on a completely new adventure Wednesday morning...substitute teaching! That's right folks, I am subbing. My first gig was for 2 groups of preschoolers, morning and afternoon classes. It was great! Circle time, ABCs, colors....LOVED IT AND LOVE THAT AGE! I went home feeling so good about my decision to quit my full time (and then some) job in the home mortgage/banking industry and become a part time substitute teacher. I went to the gym with the family this time and did some walking around an indoor track so we could all be "together" and found out from some strange man who took it upon himself to stalk me and my gait, that I apparently need something called orthotics and to see a podiatrist asap! Went home with such a splitting headache and could not actually do any type of real workout whatsoever. Then Thursday came along.....
Today I picked up another gig at an elementary school as a "floater" for some testing they were doing. I taught 1st graders in the morning and 4th graders in the afternoon. Can I just say, OMG! Let's just say I'm drinking a vat of wine right now and sent the kids to the gym with their father. No workout for me today, need a mental health hour so I'm taking it now! So basically I had 1 girl ask me if I wanted to see her new "booty" dance, listened to another tell some boy she was going to punch him in the face and he started to cry, one young man complained he didn't feel good and then threw up in the room because we didn't send him to the office, and the principal caught 2 girls in the bathroom discussing something "nasty and inappropriate" and suspended them---and this was 1st grade! I'm NOT KIDDING! It gets better...so the afternoon was filled with loud obnoxious kids throwing dominoes, refusing to do their assignments, so loud I could not hear the principal over the intercom, fighting (girls of course--oh the 4th grade drama) bathroom visits every 10 seconds--including 1 girl who explained to me that she had a hard colon and would be in there for awhile while she waits for the poop to come out as her friends giggled behind her then asked to also go to the bathroom (not too obvious, right?)---the 4th grade teacher almost looked giddy when I came to her class because she got to LEAVE! What am I doing? But out of all that chaos, I also met some pretty, bright, smart, attentive kids. I guess that's why teachers choose to do what they do and where they do it. It certainly isn't the pay or the hours (hello, lesson plans are done on their own time). It's that one young girl sitting quietly amidst the chaos doing her social studies assignment and doing the next day's assignment. The ray of sunlight peaking out from the clouds. That just made me smile. Could be the wine...lol
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