No, I did not wake up with gum in my hair nor eat lima beans for dinner and my best friend didn't desert me....but like Alex, I did have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
It all started Sunday to be honest. I woke up with that God Awful feeling that you know strep is coming around the corner, ready to attack. My throat was on fire and by the end of the day, that early sick feeling was coming. So, like Dr. Jill requested, I gargled my hot salt water, took an Advil PM (that was my own prescription) and passed out by 8:00. I woke up this morning feeling a little better, but when I got to school, I noticed my throat was scratchy. ( I didn't notice until school, because I have no other Human contact before 7:00 usually, so of course I don't talk aloud). Awesome, I get to spend all day with a scratchy throat. Good thing my kids were doing a reading and doing a group activity and I didn't have to speak all day. Well, group activities normally go great with my kids, since they have the attention span of a 3 year old and they can't focus on a 45 min. lecture. But today was different. They couldn't focus at all. All they had to do was sit down, read and answer 14 questions. 14!!!!!!!!!!!! Not a whole lot. I even told them that they would see all 14 of these questions in some way, shape or form on the test they have on Wednesday. WEDNESDAY. 14 TEST QUESTIONS! No, they wouldn't focus for long enough to do their darn work. (Side note: I do have some awesome, hard workers who I definitely take notice and appreciate) That frustrated the BAJEEZES out of me. So, tomorrow we are going over all of the information, old school powerpoint style. At least I have pretty pictures to show them. Anywho, after lunch I was so side tracked with trying to get kids to focus and getting other students their make-up work from last week, that I forgot to lock my phone back up. BIG MISTAKE. After the final bell rang, I finally made it back to my desk only to notice that my phone had disappeared into the sticky hands of a little darling. I was PISSED. I checked EVERYWHERE and it was nowhere to be seen. I even went back into other teacher's rooms, the bathroom, the work room, the AP's office in our wing, NADDA. So I cancelled my old man of an I-Phone, cried my way to my mom's house to pick up my 5 year old Ghetto-fabulous Samsung and drove to the AT&T store. When I got there I was excited to hear that my contract was up and I was actually due for an upgrade. So, I thought about it and decided it was time anyway to upgrade my 3G to a 4S. That is a HUGE leap in software. I just went from an Oldsmobile to a Mercedes in phones. At the end of the day, I was excited to have a new phone, but very disappointed with my students. I have no idea how to motivate them, and I'm frustrated because I care so much, put so much effort into teaching them and they don't even care. I say they, but really only mean a small percentage. I hate how a small number of kids can be so exhausting.
I definitely had a case of the Mondays.
Please God I pray that this week will go more smoothly.
If I were your student, I would care.
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