crazy week
this past week of relief teaching at my mums school has been crazy. i expected to have a hard time cos of my class load, but i didnt expect pure abuse! ive been openly cussed at in various languages, been crudely gestured to every lesson, had half my class walk out on me on my first day, marked a journal entry that was entirely about how pathetic i am etcetcetc.
and yes its all quite funny in retrospect but i cannot tell u how awful it is when its actually happening. so so so awful. especially when u really dont know what uve been doing wrong. yes, i know half of it is cos they know ure not much older and that ure temporary, but it still sucks.
and then theres the tough ones who suddenly dun seem so tough when they write to you in their journals and ur heart reallyreally melts and u want to write back an essay long reply but u end up writing one thats about 5 lines long because u have about 200 journals to mark by the next day. actually its more cos ure not sure that they want to read ur essay long reply.
then theres the cutie who asked me if animal farm was a true story :) hahahah. and the boy who shouted very happily to me from across the overheadbridge. and the girls who followed me to the sch gate saying that i just COULDNT leave, and basically despite all the horrible things that have happened so far, theres always the small few things that eventually outweigh everything else.
i love kids. (i know, 16 year olds arent so much kids anymore. but still) i love that they actually turn up at school eventhough they hate it.
i wish they loved me too :)
