As a teacher you sometimes have moments of going: I love my job. You also have those moments where you go: Why on earth am I doing this. Very occassionally you have days of both. Today was such a day.
On the one hand you have being in Bangladesh (with all the frustrations that entails), teaching for 5 lessons straight, having an aching jaw, despair that the year 11s are all going to fail, hideous piles of marking, students who have no idea where their own mute button is, rediculous numbers of targets to set for students on a rediculously tight deadline (seriously thinking up 6 targets for students you met less than 2 months ago is very hard) when the power cuts out regularly and being told that 8 of your 10 ppa slots the following week are going to be disrupted/taken over to do something you have to plan but arent quite sure what your supposed to be doing with them.
On the other you have your year 10s coming into lesson sitting down and working solidly on something for 45 minutes while you play some worship music.
God rocks! He also provides a way to deal with hard circumstances and is infact the provider of them in the first place to help us grow.
I love my job! (most of the time
please note that listening to music was not all i did in the lesson but it was mostly them working independantly with some guidance.....
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