This Week

This week has been very interesting. It was full of the extreme ups and downs that comes with being a teacher, I think.

I went to class late...three times this week!!
I don't think it's ever excusable to go to a class late (for me) unless I'm dealing with a life and death situation...which doesn't happen much as a JET. But it was the same old thing. I started the week having to teach a class that I never quite feel prepared for. The teacher always "gives" me the latter 30 minutes to do an "ALT activity." He doesn't care about what it is just as long as I occupy the students' time. Nor does he ever help out.

So, frantically, I had to prepare for the second period class in the morning and since I didn't have enough time, I quickly rushed back between to break trying to come up with sometime. One thing led to another, and I was still in the staff room 15mins past the starting time. The teacher actually had to come down and said, "Can you come to class, please?" in a panicked voice because he didn't have anything else prepared himself. Hahahahaha....

Man, I'm just really disappointed at my own lack of professionalism. Although I should, I feel no sense of responsibility to the teacher though. He obviously saw me as a time filler and someone who can make his job slightly easier.

I just feel like I'm letting the students down.