Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Today I went to work

Today, I went to work, but I went to the wrong school.  I looked at my schedule, and saw that I needed to go fifteen more miles.  I needed gas; I was on fumes.  When I got to the school, the secretary gave me a list of rooms to go to and the times when I was to go to them.  That was all right.  I went to the break room and had two cookies and a cup of coffee.  Then I went to the first class room.  It was a math class.  I supervised a project that they had to do.  Then I had to go to another room, which was also a math class.  That one was not so good.  There was a student who did not want to do anything.  This math teacher had given out Hot Wheels cars to measure and write down the measurements, however, the student wanted to play with  the cars.  I took them away from him, and everybody argued with me.  After that class, I had a break, because there were no kids in the next room I went to.  I told this teacher from the other class that his students were playing with the cars that they were supposed to be measuring.  I talked for a while to the security guard, and then went to my next assignment.  This teacher had the kids for two periods, and most of them were serious students.  Then I had to cover an extra one, for only a few minutes, and another sub came to relieve me.  She took over and told the kids that the only one who was going to yell was her.  I didn’t listen anymore.  The worst class was one in which I had to operate some kind of computer thingy that I had never seen.  It was a math quiz thing, where the kids punched in the answers on a kind of calculator thing.  The whole day turned out to be really tiring, because my legs hurt, but God got me through it.