Is it the end of term yet??

It's TUESDAY.  That means two more days until Easter Holiday.  CAN'T WAIT.  You get to that point where you are just like "Ok...I'm ready for a holiday" - and I am at that point.

I was eavesdropping on two of our PGC students today - well - they were talking quite loud in the quiet work area and I was busy working, but also listening - and one asked the other if she still wanted to be a teacher after four weeks of student teaching.  The girl replied that she was always tired, her feet constantly hurt, her eyes were being held up with matchsticks....she didn't know if she wanted to be a teacher after all.

Come on.  It's a hard job - does anyone really think it's a walk in the park.  Some days I'm ready to throw the towel in - days like today where one thing went wrong after the other - but I don't.  I go home, do what I need to do, and the next day I am refreshed and ready.  It is hard, but I couldn't give up my job.  I love being a teacher.  

Consider - I've come from a completely different lifestyle.  I wasn't raised with the system of education they were raised with.   Just figuring everything out and trying to establish yourself as a part of the community as a foreigner - it's hard work.  Stressful, emotional and downright annoying.   But I do it.  And I think I do it well.  

BUT - as much as I love my job, I know when I need to recharge my batteries.  I definitely need to recharge as soon as possible.  

TWO days....two days.  Then, it's off to...... who knows.