torn, a boring afternoon, and a new friend, prospect rackets

background music : hollaback girl by gwen stefani

the highschoolers at iskul bukol had half a day today. good for them. the teachers? well we had to stay the whole day for professional development crap.

i dislike these things. sometimes we get good workshops though, but most of the time? it's a waste of our time. teachers get to experience how it is to be students for a change. we sit on our asses for a few hours listening to some experts prattle on an on about how we can teach better, ladidadidah. another thing i dislike about such time consuming workshops is i get to witness how some of my well meaning colleagues can get really annoying and well, overachievers.

i usually position myself in the farthest table, preferably on the corner of a table near the exit because i have to pee all the time. this afternoon i sat with the ed box and english teachers. good thing S came well armed with reproducible word puzzles so we were engaged, pretending to take notes on the seminar.

so after the two hour ordeal, we were set free with new strategies to bring into the classroom. good luck.

the only consolation i had on today's workshop is i got to entertain my group mates with my commentaries on the workshop. S, another english teacher was amused and amazed at how "bad" i am. she said she always thought i was this meek little thing smiling and gliding my way along the hallways of iskul bukol. i gave her a hearty chuckle. moi? meek? that's precious.

this is S's first year in teaching.she is disheartened by the system, the kids, by her own inexperience. i told her the first year is always the worst. it only gets better. after a few more minutes we said our goodbyes and we left off w/ a feeling that we both made a new friend in each other. but wait there's more, there's a third musketeer in the picture, K. she teaches the same kids that i teach. she's very nice. very positive and very pretty. patient and always encouraging. we said we should go out for drinks tomorrow, since it payday friday. maybe we will.

in other news, i just landed myself a part time job as a lecturer/reviewer for the language arts component of the High School Proficiency Assessment. my parder , the math teacher who teaches next door, and i are going to try our best to prep some kids for the test every saturday, form 9-12. what did i get myself into?

in some other news, R from the technology dept asked me if i would consider teaching basic technology applications to adult non native english speakers. me teach technology?! hold your horses tonto, it's just basic email, web surfing and word application how to stuff. so if the budget pushes through, i might have another work two nights a week teaching mostly parents how to make an email account, surf the web, chat and what not.

whew. and i still tutor richard and olivia. not that i'm complaining.
yet.

bahala na si batman. joke. salamat po at may trabaho ako.