I hate senseless things

[wiseheart]

God, this is so unbearably dull!

I spent over five hours at school, doing - well, basically nothing. I don't have classes any more, I don't have a classroom, I don't have to prepare myself for anything that might or might not happen in the next 3 months as I'll be spending my working time with overseeing the kids while they play, eat and do their homework. Not exactly rocket science - and certainly not worth the 9 years spent on 3 different colleges, earning my diploms for 3 different possible occupations: that of a lower primary teacher, that of a German teacher and that of a religion teacher. Not to mention my various language proficiency exams in both German and English.

So I tried to make myself useful. I helped our music teacher (the same lovely lady who leads our choir) to write down name lists for her numerous classes (some 15 of them). You'd say that printing them out would be easier - and you'd be right. The only problem is that the pre-printed teacher's notebooks have measures that are impossible to fit with any letter sizes on any printer. Hence: hand-writing. And since I can write rather tidily if I give it some effort, my colleagues are always grateful when I offer my services.

I also took my sewing kit with me again. I've made another mini sewing kit and almost finished the first needle book. There will be pictures later, I promise.

When we were finally released from mandatory boredom, we went to a small nearby eatery for lunch. It isn't really a restaurant as it mostly opens for lunchtime - lunch being the main meal over here, when we eat something cooked - and has only two dishes to choose from. Two different ones on each day, that is. But it is nice, cosy, clean, and the food is good; not even too expensive, although I couldn't afford to eat there every day.

In any case, the 8 of us had a lovely time; even an already retired colleague living nearby joined us with her hubby. Spontaneous things like this make school term bearable.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Mostly German. I'm not a trained English teacher, but I did teach English, back in the Stone Ages (some, ah, 10 or so years ago), when there weren't enough language teachers and you were allowed to do so, as long as you had a language proficiency exam and a diplom for teaching another foreign language.

I also used to teach every single subject in lower primary, from reading and writing through maths to science and singing and drawing and PE. In our school system lower primary teachers get to teach basically everything in the first 4 classes.

[meathiel]

Oh - it's the same here. My friend is a trained primary school teacher and she had to teach all the subjects as well ... Even in Hauptschule she had to - she always said she was 2 pages ahead in the book ... haha ...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know the feeling. I suck at maths and was teaching in lower primary 30-some years ago when the teaching reform came out - not even people who were good at maths could really follow. I was insanely happy when I gained my diplom as a language teacher and never had to teach maths again.