When Jay first told me I would be doing cover work in Taipei last week, he gave me a schedule that included no assigned work on Thursday and Friday, but the stipulation that I was to call in on standby these days. Standby, essentially, means that you call in very early in the morning (by the standards of an EFL teacher, anyway) to find out if you will be needed that day to cover for anyone who's sick.
I had no idea whether any work would materialize for these days, but somehow, I have an assignment for tomorrow, teaching kindergarten at a school I've never been to before and am certain to get lost on the way to. And--here's the best part--it starts at 9:00 in the morning. This means I'll need to get there by 8:00 or so to prepare (assuming the school is even open that early--my branch in Taoyuan never was, when I had a 9:30 class twice a week). Which means I'll need to leave home by 6:00 to get there. This, after having worked until 10:00 tonight and not having gotten back to Taoyuan until midnight. It's a miracle I'm hear blogging; I wouldn't be, if I didn't feel an urgent need to check my e-mail and have some semblance of communication with the world beyond this small island.
I have realized these last couple of days that I loathe teaching kindergarten. Loathe, loathe, loathe, loathe, loathe it. Nothing ever made me want to be a kindergarten teacher before, but teaching a class the other teachers at the school call the kindy class from hell has made me really not want to teach kindy. And those classes were only for an hour a piece.
Luckily, from what the teacher I'll be covering said, I don't have to do much.
And so, off to bed.
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