Welcome to a Saturday of ‘just a teacher’. For those who still question why we have so many holidays we say … what holidays???
Here’s a day for you! A Saturday. Think about what you did today verse many teachers across the globe.
It’s Saturday and the alarm goes off at 7am. The one day I can sleep in, I don’t. Instead I am up folding the washing from the past few days, making a coffee and a list of food for the weeks lunch boxes!
Appointment booked for installation of roof racks, booked a week ago, at 11. So head off at 10:00 with 42 year 12 papers I have to draft in two days.
We have to make use of every moment, in order to get them back to the students. Drop car and find a spot to whole up, and the process begins.
In a cafe while nursing a large coffee, number 2 of the day.
Rung by the roof rack place to let me know they had sold my ordered racks to someone else and can I come back after tuesday. I said ‘sure because I am always at the gym, dressed in Lycra, sipping mojitos with my friends all day 🤯 If only they knew!
Annoyed and cranky at the waste of driving time, that’s a whole paper marked wasted with driving.
Return home to begin the marking marathon!
After all, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and you are stuck inside.
It’s now 4pm and still going! Not even way through half 😰
Only half done, another a day of this tomorrow.
All to get the drafts back on time for the students. So a Saturday as a teacher is not what we think it is.
Remember that, we do what we do because we love what we do and we do it for them.
That’s a wrap! Now time for me and my own child.
Until the sun breaks tomorrow and it all begins again.
Sleep well all, hope you enjoyed the sunshine and what was a beautiful Saturday.
Parenting, patience, relationships and resilience! 