Here I sit, on a public holiday Monday, procrastinating on assignments that desperately need my attention. Prac has come to an end and I have no lesson plans to write and no excuses to not start the next necessary part of my course! I live on an acre and my boys want to be my study room, talking, playing and arguing, I keep asking what is dad doing? Hoping to encourage them not to be within one metre of me today, while I struggle to find the motivation to study.
Just as Jill wrote, I’m a little sad that prac has come to an end, just as your getting into the gist of teaching it all dissolves and now the next part of my education journey begins/continues. At least this prac has defiantly confirmed that I haven’t wasted the last four years of my life (what life, my social life has taken a dive due to family, study and work commitments). I really enjoy teaching and the last three weeks have been hard work, but the satisfaction is in the students faces when you know they are interested and they have come away with something positive that I have taught them!!
So this weekend I have indulged a little, well maybe a lot, as of Friday afternoon 4pm,(Yes my last day I stayed until 4 I am a nerd) I have put uni aside and enjoyed a few wines and spent some time with my neglected family ( apart from my earlier rant about trying to study with my boys within a metre of me). Today is usually my quite study day alone, but it’s also a public holiday, but I am grateful as there was no morning rush to get to the 7:25 bus, no uniforms to organise, no breakfast to rush through and best of all NO LUNCHES TO MAKE, (lunches are my pet hate!)
I guess the moral of the story is I love my family and I love teaching I just have to find the balance.
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