More Self-Assessment

Further to the analysis I began making below, about my work, there are a couple of issues I want to explore further, in writing, here. One is the issue of CONTROL. And the other is the issue of WHY do I care this much – enough to be spending my weekend obsessing about how to [...]

Monday

2 more ‘peep’s in USA!: Cool!
Went to work today: all was well. Only 3 students = bit of an anticlimax… I was somewhat overprepared, shall we say.
Very tired, now – so I’m going to bed early. It’s the exhaustion of anticipation and trepidation AND anticlimax…Look forward to starting to feel a bit more normal about [...]

Anticipation

Well, here I am again – only a couple of hours later, on Saturday, and still thinking about going to work on Monday.
I think now that, even though I have established a reasonable amount of calmess in advance, I won’t really calm down till Monday is over, and maybe Tuesday as well. It is anticipation [...]

“The Last Post”

So here we are: my “last post” before the students return.
It’s Saturday and I shouldn’t be thinking about work. But I am such a control freak that I need to feel adequately prepared for the “new year”, so I needed to get myself and my classroom up to a certain stage of readiness by yesterday, [...]