Sorry I haven't written since Tuesday, but unfortunately, I have been sick. A little preamble.....on Wednesday, I had an issue with a young boy who was defiant and that night, I couldn't sleep wondering how I was going to be able to go through all this again like I did with the boy in the grade two class last year. I got about 3 hours sleep that night and I guess my immune system was low and on Thursday, I came down with a fever. That night, I went to bed at 6:30pm and slept through until 6:30am Friday morning. I went to school with a sore throat and sore ears - Dad bought me some lozenges to suck on and I took some Tylenol every few hours. Friday night, I sweated so much that I had to turn the comforter over in the middle of the night and put a towel on the sheets (twice) and change my pillowcase. I went to bed on Friday night at 7pm and slept through until 7am yesterday morning. I spent Saturday sitting on my comfy chair with my comforter up around my neck watching tv. I took a long nap in the afternoon and spent the evening sitting in my chair again. The pain in my throat was so bad yesterday - I was taking a Tylenol every two hours and you know how much I HATE taking pills so you can imagine how painful my throat and ears were. And to top it off, I didn't even have ANY desire to have chocolate - now THAT's sad! Today, I am feeling a little better - my fever is gone, but my glands are still swollen and my throat still hurts. I am taking one Tylenol every four hours and that does help.
And to top it off, the boy who was defiant on Wednesday that I worried about dealing with for the rest of the year, was fine on both Thursday and Friday - sheesh! :-) Thursday and Friday teaching days were okay - there's another defiant child, a girl, who had a hissy fit and I took outside of the science room and told her I was going to take her back to the classroom and she started saying 'no, no' and settled back down. I have to say that the experience of teaching here in Hervey Bay has made me appreciate teaching at R. J. Lee so much!!! There are so many issues with these kids and it makes it much harder to teach them. I seem to have lost my love of teaching here which makes me so sad as I absolutely LOVED teaching in Canada - every day, I loved going in and helping the children learn. But, there, I was actually teaching, not managing the classroom. Both Chantelle and Sam said that they think I have to be more tough which I don't like to be, but I am going to have to be, I think. But, it makes me sad to not enjoy teaching - it's all I have ever wanted to do and it was such an amazing experience living my dream in Canada. It's not a dream doing it here - the other night I even thought of getting a job outside of the teaching field - that really surprised me when I thought about that - made me sad, but I can understand why those thoughts came into my mind. We shall have to see how the next week goes.
Dad spent Wednesday doing work around here: mowing the grass, trimming around the edges of the lawn, weeding, spraying for insects, clearing the outside wall vents and filling them with powder so that wasps and ants won't build their homes in them and spraying the attic for spiders. On Thursday, he couldn't do 'Meals on Wheels' because he had to be home for the guys who delivered our stuff - yep, it's finally here - all our lovely stuff which has gone around the world practically finally arrived - and it all fit into the garage with just enough room to fit the car in. We have been able to live here without any of this stuff so far and so we will go through the boxes/containers a little at a time. I do know that I want to get into my school books boxes as we are starting a unit on fairy tales after the school holidays and I know I have a couple of books which can help with our planning of that unit. Dad is also anxious to get his tool box out of its wrapper and get his tools into it. Dad spent Friday at the Family History Centre - it was a very quiet day so Dad was able to get a lot of computer updating done. Yesterday, he mostly just hung around the house doing stuff on the computer and waiting on me. :-) His census forms were delivered - 42 boxes of them! Luckily for us, we have no furniture in our living room and so all the boxes went in there.
So, that has been our very (un)exciting week here. I am sure that this coming week will be a much better one! :-)
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