The big switch

UGH, we were supposed to hire a new guy named Richard from Australia, but at literally the last minute he decided to not get on his flight and stay in Australia out of fear of North Korea attacking. So now, everyone at ECC is pulling double time and having their schedule's switched to make up for this calamity. I myself became deeply affected as it resulted in my whole schedule being turned on it's head and then having another schedule stacked on top of it.

To start, I'll mention that all of my favourite classes got yanked from me and replaced with entirely new classes filled with kids whose names I'm going to have to learn all over again. They even took away the class with my little dude Eric who drew the picture of me! He came to meet me before class as usual and when I told him I wasn't his teacher anymore, he looked like he was going to cry. Every one of my other good classes, including one where I explicitly promised the students I would not leave, got wiped off my schedule. The only classes that remained were my sinfully boring class, my screaming class and my nightmare hell class. In fact, they added 2 new students to my nightmare hell class, one of which has been diagnosed with ADHD. THANKS.

All this switching was done to accomodate the fact that, as of June, I have become a full-fledged Kindergarten teacher to replace the one that never arrived. That means I show up at 9 every morning, have a desgnated class I teach a broad range of subjects to, and *shudder* occasionally eat lunch with them. Even after Kindergarten ends, I still have classes up until the time I left normally, which means I went from working 7 hour days to working 9 and a half hour days with less breaks.

Now, they say this is only for June, but if Gord and Charlotte's experience at Dongdaemun tells me anything, they will probably just assume that because everyone is begrudgingly accepting their new schedules, then everything must be fine and they won't need to get anyone new. I really hope they don't think this. They might though because it's a business, and any cost cutting measure is considered.

So everything kind of sucks now. I also had to spend $300 on two CT scans of my head so I can finally find out what the hell is wrong with me.

And I am in pain all the time.

And it's been 3 months since I've seen Jessica. I've never spent so much time alone in my life.

Next post will be all good news, I promise. There's something exciting on the horizon.