Ahh holidays! The great sigh of relief from the working world. Now let’s just get what I’m thinking out in the open right away; if you have EVER said or thought to yourself or are thinking it now for the first time- that teachers get it easy, well, I hope you choke on your toothbrush, yeh I mean it. I’ve thought about what I just said and I don’t take it back. This term was the most epic and unimaginably testing of my entire (3 year) career and I have just spent the first week and a half of this two week break feeling particularly and overwhelmingly sick, uninspired and completely lacking in any form of motivation.
All I’ve done so far is watch documentaries on the Mayans, participate in endless games of Cluedo and eat home-made pizza (quite literally- I am genuinely currently surviving on home-made pizza). I’ve learnt quite a lot of useless information and I’m almost convinced I missed my calling and was meant to be a detective or some kind of female renaissance version of Indiana Jones (den-den-den-den). Alas and regardless of all this, I am yet to tick a single task off the list that I so enthusiastically created pre-holidays; ignorant in my assumptions that I would actually achieve all of these things:
TO DO:
1. Clean and organize study
2. Cook a delicious dinner party for my friends
3. Learn a new song on the guitar for Grandma’s Birthday concert
4. Finish ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’
5. Complete my full teacher registration
6. Mark all my year 9’s English essays
BORING
If only my list had have looked more like the following I could have ticked the shit out of it:
TO DO
Duh ! The problem’s not in the list maker’s productivity levels, it’s in the list maker’s list making. There’s a lesson to be learned here… I can’t exactly put my finger on what it is, seeing I’m all relaxed, prostrate and switched off but it seems like there’s some moral to this story… or is this just the effect of vague remnants of a looming teacher’s hat??
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