After 7 weeks of summer bliss I am back to the drawing board again and this time with one more preparation (Physical Science for Grade 9) AND 48 students more compared to last year's. And oh, one more class to teach, too! (One AP Chemistry class, 3 upper school Chemistry classes, and 2 upper school Physical Science classes.) We are only in our second week of school and already I am to my forehead with papers to mark. It's not that I am whining (actually, I am, but only to myself), it's just that I still have to "learn" how to NOT go through my students' handed-in in-class or bring-home assignments thoroughly. One would think that after almost 10 years of teaching I'd learn the art of skimming over students' papers but no, I still don't and when my lesson reaches Stoichiometry, oh boy, you rarely can find me online. But oh well, I love my job (what job can give you a 2-months paid summer break, a one week break in October, a 2-week vacation in December, a one-week vacation for the Chinese New Year, a one week spring vacation, plus all those free Saturdays and Sundays and many long weekends? And oh, the opportunity to travel, travel, travel?) that's why for most part of the year, I say to myself (albeit convincingly) that I love my job and I don't want to be a chemist confined to the walls of the laboratory again. I love teaching, teaching, teaching!!!!
Uh wait, how many days until the October break again? Ugh!!!
(Originally posted on 18 June 2009)
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