Weekends

I love the weekends so much. I wish they were three days long. I need one whole day to do nothing, one day to do chores, and one day to do work. Two days is not enough. Next weekend I'm taking a trip to Baltimore because my mother's going to be there for a work thing. I'm taking the train right after work on Friday and I'm coming back Sunday evening. I'm pretty excited, it'll be my first vacation since school started. I don't know what we're going to do down there, but it'll be nice to see my mom and hang out. I'm going to try and take a nap on the train since I can't stay up past 9:00 on Friday without one. I am also giving a test this week, so I'll try and grade those on the train when I wake up from my nap. So much work to do forever.

Oh my goodness! I almost forgot. My school had the first dance of the year on Friday and I chaperoned. Hilarity! Middle schoolers are amazing at school dances. It was the Halloween dance, so a lot of them were dressed up too. So bizarre. Middle school aged people are so funny and interesting. I love it. Very awkward and there was some whole thing going to down with these two popular kids who went to the dance together, I don't know. I didn't get all the gossip. I was mostly moving around the gym trying to position myself near the kids who were dancing too close so they would get so uncomfortable with me being near them that they would stop. I didn't break much stuff up, only some really sexually explicit moves. Which is disgusting by the way, 12 year olds!

I also realized that the end of the quarter is coming up soon. I can't believe that in an entire quarter I've done one unit. I feel very ineffective. Being a teacher is so overwhelming, I feel like there are a lot of things I would like to do but I just don't have the energy to create them. Like I wanted to do a review bingo that would have questions just like on the test, but I just don't have the energy to do that. I am going to have to have the kids come up with the questions for half the period and then play the game based on those questions. I can't possibly design two different jeopardy games and create two tests and grade projects. I don't have that kind of energy. I also should get going because I absolutely have to do laundry today because I'm going out of town next weekend.

Perhaps I shall post again before I leave, but it is not likely.