For anyone who is a teacher, or works mon-fri , you all know the euphoria that is Friday afternoon. It is such a great feeling that I don’t know if I will ever get tired of feeling. Talking to Margaret who has been teaching for years says that the high of Friday never goes away, and likewise the dread of Monday as well. It’s not that I don’t enjoy my job, but by the end of the week I am utterly exhausted. On top of teaching every day I have been a lot better with my running, and have been sticking to 5 days a week, which means Tues-Thurs, I’m up and out the door running by 5am. The days are pretty long if you’re up that early and I do my best to be in bed before 10 so that I’m not a zombie during the day.
On Tuesday Robyn was feeling a little bit of cabin fever so we went out for dinner and picked up some groceries on our way out. What we didn’t know was that we would have our closest to near death experience that I’ve had in China so far. I’ve had cars close to me, I’ve been stuck inbetween two buses on the street and highway, I’ve almost been hit by a car, scooter, bike, etc. but I have never been so scared as we were on Tuesday leaving the school. We were just at the intersection leaving the school and our cab driver was not going slow…and neither was the truck coming the other way. Like I said, I’ve gasped and been afraid in cabs before living in Wuhan, but on this special occasion I screamed and braced myself. My heard actually stopped, along with Robyn. I also feel that the cab driver was generally concerned, not just a crazy China driver. It was not how I wanted to spend my afternoon….but we’re both still alive and that’s all that matters.
Other than my near death experience the week has gone by pretty well. I just finished up a hockey unit in PE which was super fun. In English I had to plan for next week and ended up doing most of it myself, since most of the English department had a pretty heavy load and my partner was really feeling it. She appreciated it a lot and I was glad to help. I needed something to occupy my prep times during the day.
Oh, random thought from last week as well. I saw a scorpion when I was running in the morning. It was the most freaked out I have ever been on a run….which includes that time I saw a bear in Mundy Park. It was so big it looked like a lobster. The bugs are starting to come out and I am not enjoying that part. I thought the bugs at Shuswap were weird and gross looking…the ones here are even worse.
Last night one of my students from my grade 11 class last semester put on a “No Pop” concert for the students. He was so proud of it and did an awesome job. Some of the teachers were involved in some of the performances and it was awesome. It’s neat that these students are so open to doing stuff like that. I guess if I lived on campus, having something to go to instead of doing self study would make me excited as well. The opening act was Ewan (the VP) singing school of Rock with Bryn on the bass guitar. Later on Shane from across the hall did a guitar and singing solo which was sooooooo good. It was nice for the students to see the teachers let loose a little.
Today was April Fools. Nothing like it would have been in Canada teaching at a high school. We pranked Mitch in the other office, the one that had previously put crabs in my desk. Sanya and I took his desk out of his office and set it up in the hallway. It was pretty funny. Hopefully nothing comes back my way again :S
Anyways, that is all for now. I think we may be planning an adventure for next weekend before we have a week of Mid-terms (not a fun time for the English Department…marking wise :S).
Wishing everyone well,
-Taryn
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