Day 7: Teaching is exhausting

Before LTS, I thought I knew more about teachers' sacrifices than the ordinary non-teacher. After all, my parents are teachers so I've seen the problems they have to face every day. But seeing other people teach, and actually teaching, are two really different things. Yesterday's class hit me over the head with that, in addition to draining me physically.

I had come into yesterday's class with an lp I fitted for Janice, and I followed it, but when I reached the last item, I realized that we had only spent half an hour for everything. I scrambled to think of something, and I did, but it was like time passed really slow. So for the last 5 minutes or so, I asked Janice what she wanted to do the following day, and asked her if she wanted to make stars out of popsicle sticks. She said yes, and Almira and I decided to make it like a starting review for both Janice and Clares as a way to make Janice more active, and placate Clares who has apparently started to get bored of reading. So Almira and I bought and prepared the materials yesterday after LTS. And as I write this on Tuesday morning, I've only finished preparing 3/4 of my materials for Janice, and I still need to think of a game.

It's like all the effort I've been exerting on the materials has finally caught up on me, and I'm just really drained. If during the past few weeks I realized that I needed to make an effort on the materials, now I realize that while I do need to do so, I shouldn't push myself either. I must look really fatigued, because my mom asked me this morning if I wanted to stay home and rest, but I said I couldn't, because I need to be in class today, I need to be in class every day, especially now that I'm handling Janice alone. Which is why I need to pace myself from now on so I don't get sick and miss a class.