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Dead.
Y'know how I was going in to work to sign stuff and study the books I'll be using next week for the class I've picked up (which, incidentally, I am sharing with another teacher)? Well, I got a phone-call this morning at 8:05am (after a very late night. I was too wired about buying furniture. I've never done that before ^__^) from the DoS.
My first thought? Oh, shit! I'm late!!! *ack!flail!panic!*
"Sheena! It's the DoS at IH here. You know how you were coming in at 10am today? Do you think you could come in and do a relief shift starting at 9:30? One of the FCE teachers just phoned in sick. It's mock test day, so you won't have to do any prep work...?"
Don't ask me how she did it, but she managed to sound like she was doing puppy dog eyes through the phone.
Please note: I was still in my PJ's in bed at this point.
Anyway, I said yes and don't ask me how, but I was dressed, medicated (asthma stuff) and out the door by 8:10am. I snagged an apple from the fruit box on the way out. Managed to get to the train station just as a city train was rolling in. I was in at the school with about 40 or so minutes to spare.
It was a really, really easy test to do. All I had to do was sit and stare at them while they did the mock test. And mark one of them. Simple.
My ringtone totally embarrased me at one point, though. One of the other teacher's phone rang. It was some pop song or something or other. She muttered something about having to change it and I piped up with "It's not as bad as mine, trust me!"
....
....
My phone rang just as the words left my mouth.
*to the tune of Raiders March from Indianna Jones* "Kiss a Wooki-ie! Kick a Droi-id! Fly the Falco-on through an as-ta-roid. 'Til the Prince-ess is annoye-ed! This is space ships, it's monsters, it's Star Wars, we love it!"
Let's just say the office cracked up laughing and left it at that.
A few minutes after that my message tone goes off (G1 Cybertronian transforming) and one of the other teachers actually recognised it.
I think I've been labled a geek on my first day. *grins*
So, the job itself. It's actually two different IELTS classes. I teach one of them in the morning and one of them in the afternoon and it's two different things. The great thing is that I only have to write one lesson plan for the entire week! Sweet!
Mondays: 8:30-11:30 Int IELTS. 12:30-2:30 Upper-Int IELTS skills class. Then run to Uni (via my favourite Chinese restaurant at the bottom of the Myer Centre for a steamed pork bun...the owner has learnt my snack and drink order O.o) for my Semantics, Syntax and Morphology lecture starting at 4pm. I finish at 6pm that day.
Tuesday: 6pm - 9pm is my Critical Perspectives in TESOL lecture and tutorial
Wednesday: Day off (unless I get called for relief work)
Thursday: 8:30-11:30 Int IELTS. 12:30-2:30 Int IELTS skills class.
Friday: Day off (unless I get called for relief work).
I'll be doing 10 hours p/week at this job. More than I was expecting that's for sure.
*snickers* I'm watching Effie, one of the cats, chase a moth around. It's kinda amusing. And speaking of cats... I came home to one of the housemates playing the tin whistle. Tom, pyscho-bi-polar-kitty, didn't like it. He'd wrapped his paws around the housemate's arm and was trying to pull the whistle away from his mouth. I found it highly amusing.
Effie hopped up on the couch earlier to see what I was up to and I ended up with a mouth full of tail fur when she decided the she wasn't all that interested in what I was doing. Ah, the joys of living with cats.
Y'know how I was going in to work to sign stuff and study the books I'll be using next week for the class I've picked up (which, incidentally, I am sharing with another teacher)? Well, I got a phone-call this morning at 8:05am (after a very late night. I was too wired about buying furniture. I've never done that before ^__^) from the DoS.
My first thought? Oh, shit! I'm late!!! *ack!flail!panic!*
"Sheena! It's the DoS at IH here. You know how you were coming in at 10am today? Do you think you could come in and do a relief shift starting at 9:30? One of the FCE teachers just phoned in sick. It's mock test day, so you won't have to do any prep work...?"
Don't ask me how she did it, but she managed to sound like she was doing puppy dog eyes through the phone.
Please note: I was still in my PJ's in bed at this point.
Anyway, I said yes and don't ask me how, but I was dressed, medicated (asthma stuff) and out the door by 8:10am. I snagged an apple from the fruit box on the way out. Managed to get to the train station just as a city train was rolling in. I was in at the school with about 40 or so minutes to spare.
It was a really, really easy test to do. All I had to do was sit and stare at them while they did the mock test. And mark one of them. Simple.
My ringtone totally embarrased me at one point, though. One of the other teacher's phone rang. It was some pop song or something or other. She muttered something about having to change it and I piped up with "It's not as bad as mine, trust me!"
....
....
My phone rang just as the words left my mouth.
*to the tune of Raiders March from Indianna Jones* "Kiss a Wooki-ie! Kick a Droi-id! Fly the Falco-on through an as-ta-roid. 'Til the Prince-ess is annoye-ed! This is space ships, it's monsters, it's Star Wars, we love it!"
Let's just say the office cracked up laughing and left it at that.
A few minutes after that my message tone goes off (G1 Cybertronian transforming) and one of the other teachers actually recognised it.
I think I've been labled a geek on my first day. *grins*
So, the job itself. It's actually two different IELTS classes. I teach one of them in the morning and one of them in the afternoon and it's two different things. The great thing is that I only have to write one lesson plan for the entire week! Sweet!
Mondays: 8:30-11:30 Int IELTS. 12:30-2:30 Upper-Int IELTS skills class. Then run to Uni (via my favourite Chinese restaurant at the bottom of the Myer Centre for a steamed pork bun...the owner has learnt my snack and drink order O.o) for my Semantics, Syntax and Morphology lecture starting at 4pm. I finish at 6pm that day.
Tuesday: 6pm - 9pm is my Critical Perspectives in TESOL lecture and tutorial
Wednesday: Day off (unless I get called for relief work)
Thursday: 8:30-11:30 Int IELTS. 12:30-2:30 Int IELTS skills class.
Friday: Day off (unless I get called for relief work).
I'll be doing 10 hours p/week at this job. More than I was expecting that's for sure.
*snickers* I'm watching Effie, one of the cats, chase a moth around. It's kinda amusing. And speaking of cats... I came home to one of the housemates playing the tin whistle. Tom, pyscho-bi-polar-kitty, didn't like it. He'd wrapped his paws around the housemate's arm and was trying to pull the whistle away from his mouth. I found it highly amusing.
Effie hopped up on the couch earlier to see what I was up to and I ended up with a mouth full of tail fur when she decided the she wasn't all that interested in what I was doing. Ah, the joys of living with cats.
