I am so tired today. It is Friday night and I'm supposed to go to dinner at a friend's house but I don't even want to move. My eyes keep welling up with tears but I don't actually cry.
Today my students were little shits. Not all of them, but I had some really awful ones today. I wonder how many times I yelled, "Stop chatting" today. Then I had a few of the smart ass kids who make some sort of comment after everything I say.
I had to cut my lesson short in three of my classes because they were behaving so badly and I kept several students after today to give them a talking to and doll out various threats.
And all I wanted, at the end of this awful day, was so to come home and be held by my fiancé, to lay in his arms or to get a massage from him or to have him listen to my stories. I miss having someone to come home to after work.
Yes, we only have 24 days until our visit and I am so happy for that. And trust me, I am concentrating on the positives of that. But I cannot forget that January will come eventually and it will then be 4 more months until I see him.
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Try to send the misbehaving students out of class and write them up (Ask your supervisor how to go about this. At the lycee, there was a student who was sort of the class monitor who would be in charge of taking the misbehaving student to the proper "authorities" and bring back confirmation that it had been done). This usually worked for awhile to show them that you're serious. And then immediately when they start to act that way again, repeat the punishment. They're just trying to push you to see how far you'll go, and they can be little shits as a result.
What also surprised me was how common talking over one another and the teacher was-I felt it was just common knowledge when I was in school that you shut up when the teacher told you to. But in France, it seemed to happen all the time. I would get so mad when students would interrupt each other when they were trying to speak to me in English, and I really don't think they understood how frustrating it was for me. Be tough!
Bisous!
@Rach- thanks for writing all that. I definitely made myself aware of all the discipline procedures at my school. I talked to their professeur principale and had her talk to them as a warning...but if this one kid keeps it up, he is going to CPE/Vie Scolaire next week. And I already did kick one of the girls out permanently.
Most of my kids just get overly excited to be in a "fun" class, so they can no longer control their talking/behavior. But I am definitely going to be more tough with them next week.
Glad to hear you're feeling better. If I were you, I'd make myself a sort of advent calendar to count down when you'll be able to see your fiancee again- it's so soon, really!