Goodness

The first week of the 2012-2013 school year has officially ended and it was - dare I say - GOOD. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be so smooth. I remember being really stressed out at the beginning of the last school year, not knowing when or what forms I would be teaching. I don't know if it's because I've handled this chaos before or because I only have three months (is that possible?) left at my school, but my brain is just like, "sure, whatever, I can teach five lessons tomorrow." And then I go home and bust out a bunch of quality lesson plans.

I think it helps that I actually have things to do, so I'm more productive in general. I don't wake up and think, "I'll do that one thing I have to do today sometime within the next nine hours." I guess I do better with a fuller schedule. I'm currently teaching the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th forms, and I will probably end up co-teaching the 3rd and 10th. I'm teaching both sections of the 9th form, which means that I've been handed back the section that I refused to teach last year. So far, things have been pleasant but I'm fairly certain they were screamed at prior to our first lesson together to behave or else. My school also enacted a stricter cell phone policy - if it gets taken away, your parents have to come to school to claim it - and I've only seen one cell phone in class all week! This is a glorious victory.

Maybe all of this goodness is because I have a better attitude about it, or because I want to finish my service strong. I'm not really sure, but I'm not sure it matters either. I'm just going to enjoy it.