1. No sooner did I wake up but it hit me, this is midterm exam week, and that thought alone sent me crawling under my sheets for another good twenty minutes. There’s a certain satisfaction I get with exam week and I must admit, part of it has to do with the fact that I’m no longer on the receiving end of it all. Mind ya, marking exams is brutal. But what I love about exam week is seeing students get all serious and prepping in the classrooms. Numerous students have printed off my lecture files and that always thrills me. I love it how some of them are so dedicated, so eager to prove themselves on my exam. It’s awesome and, quite honestly, it makes me feel proud.
2. Oh gosh, have you ever experienced one of those “did you just hear what you said?” moments where something so obvious is not so obvious to those around you?! I definitely had one of those today and it came as a result of a staff meeting. Oh the things I’d love to say if there were no repercussions, I tell you. “Great joke guys,… too bad you don’t realize you’re your own punch line!”
3. Talk about not thinking, turns out my midterm reading exam is missing question 5 in Part C (multiple choice section)… oops.
4. While students eagerly slaved away at my exam in the second period, I just as eagerly slaved away at marking the first classes’ set of exams. Some of the students blew me away with their novel-like answers for Part E… wow!!!
5. I’m still in the process of marking the reading logs that I received last week and so a big chunk of my evening was spent marking those.
6. “Only two weeks… only two weeks” I continually had to tell myself today in order to keep myself from sinking and drowning in the already high mound of things to mark for school. In two weeks this marking will be over and then it’ll be back to preparing Power Point lecture files as being my biggest stress of the week.
7. Fitting boxing into my day is no problem as it is a much needed escape from the massive pile of exams and reports haunting me at my house. Finding energy to box after hours on end of marking however, now that’s a whole different issue.
8. Junior Mint was much under the weather today and so I agreed to manage the boxing club so that he could go home. I really didn’t have the time to spare but considering he’s no good to me if he’s not up to par at training, I figured it was the least I could do and his health is just as important to me as my health.
9. From 7:30pm to closing (10:30pm) I managed the club. One problem however, my training never goes on for three hours and so I tried to kill time by cleaning the club and testing out new training techniques. Only one other member was at the club and so I did an ab workout with him and then we played catch with the heavy medicine ball (which I note is awesome for the wrists!).
10. By the time I got home, showered, and downed a super ghetto protein shake, it was 11pm and I was wondering in the minus energy levels. I was KO by 11:05pm.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
-- Lorraine Hansberry
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
2 comments:
Hey Amy!
About what level are your students? I mean, they aren't exactly fluent in English, would you say they're in like middle school level english? The reason I ask is that it seems your stress comes from the SIZE of your classes and the AMOUNT of students you have, not so much the material. Like the difference between teaching 1st grade and highschool, that the younger the grade the easier the material, yet the more difficult the students, and in highschool its the opposite...kind of lol.
I have been realizing that a big reason why I don't do homework and don't run and don't talk is because I don't get any sleep. Lately I've been noticing I fall asleep later and later. These last two days I only got about 6 hours, and they were school days, and by last bell I'm ready to pass out. I've been falling asleep in my study hall, and it's getting worse. So my question is, how do you get to sleep? You have more to worry and think about than most, so how do you get yourself asleep? I've always had trouble sleeping. I think about things, listen to music, etc. Any advice sis?!
:P
Question OTD:
Only when I'm sleeping, and then wake up and I don't feel like thinking, but then my morning math class wakes me up!
Quote OTD:
I think too much! I need to sit and sleep.
Much love from the states,
-Bman
Yo Bman,
My students are ALL different levels. They're only grouped according to major and the English course they've choosen. So this means that in one class you have quite the varied range of English levels. I've been able to conquer this problem in my reading class with having them bring in their own reading materials but it's kind of hard for my listening class.
The amount of students is a HUGE problem when it comes to marking. Take me marking the reading students' reports, for instances. It's killing up my time and eating up my energy.
I think my main problem though lies with my listening class and the drier than dry textbook they make us teach out of. It's brutal.
As for how I sleep, it's more of a question of how do I stay up! I do my boxing training usually later in the evening and so it's very demanding on my body, so by the time I get home I have just enough energy to make a small snack, do a little of Korean studies and then I'm totally out like a light!
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