Our week in a nutshell (What's it doing in a nutshell?)

This week has been quite interesting...

We thought this might be our first full week of teaching but we were told on Monday that Tuesday would be a sports day and that classes would be cancelled from 12:00. Yay because we only start teaching at 13:00. We arrived at school thinking it would be a full on sports day, students participating and cheering for their departments. Nope, we arrived at school to find it was a ghost town, one or two students but all the teachers were there.

It seemed that the sports day was more for the teachers. We were both roped into the tug-of-war (roped...hee hee see what I did there) Jurie for the men's team, me for the ladies. The other staff were wearing casual clothes...Jurie and I didn't get the memo. But we competed in our work clothes in any case.

The ladies won the tug of war, 2-1. We competed against another department. The men won too but they had to compete against more departments.

Needless to say, the next day we were both very stiff and had weird bruises on our arms.

The teaching is getting better. The only thing we find annoying is having to repeat ourselves to the students.

"Teacher class finished!"

"No, class is 50 minutes, what time did we start?"

"11:00"  

"Plus 50 minutes?

"

"11:50"

"Is it 11:50 now?"

"No."

We have a stare off.

"Teacher class finished."

 Another annoyance is having students talk while we are teaching. 

Today we had to proctor an entrance exam. At least we weren't thrown into the deep end and they paired us up with experienced teachers. We will also be marking these exams on Saturday (the weekend) Usually, if teachers do this then they can get a day off at the end of the semester. There were only 47 spots and we managed to secure ourselves one. YESSSSSSSSS! 

So at the end of April, we get to have an extra day off. So in the short term, 6-day week next week. In the long term, extra day off...hmmmm.