Changes

Since I lost my Kindys *sob* my job has necessitated some changes. Now, instead of being primarily a kindergarten teacher (3 hours a day, five days a week), I am now teaching a wider variety of students. I am choosing to look at this as a positive thing--it diversifies my experience level, making me a more versatile employee. It also gives me the opportunity to teach writing, which is really my jam, if you know me at all.

Before, my schedule looked like this:

And now it looks likes this:

A few, slight changes.

• My math class became a reading class with the same students. This is a relief because although I enjoyed teaching math, I really didn't feel like my students were learning English.
• I get more planning time! What a relief! I don't think I will be scrambling as much to get my lesson plans done.
• I am officially teaching high school students. Korea keeps trying to tell me they are middle school students, but they are 16 so I refuse to accept that they are still in middle school.
• I am also teaching writing--this means I get to teach elements of writing, like topic sentences, identifying parts of sentences, brainstorming, outlining, proper construction of an essay, etc. This is all the stuff I live for!

Although I actually had to hold back a sob today when one of the kindergartners asked me where my students were today and then cruelly started shouting their names through the hallway, I think this will be good for me. I don't have the patient personality of The Canadian. And I haven't worked with high school students in a long time. And I'll get to sleep in later and since winter is coming, I want to spend as much time under the covers as possible. So I will keep telling myself this is a good thing, even if I am quite anxious about this change. The only thing I can do is try, right?