School work is picking up, I'm starting to have more homework to do and more things to memorize; and on top of that I have my job and report cards to write.
Many people are confused when I say that I have report cards to write, but I do them for the swimming lesson classes I teach.
For the term I'm working, there's a total of 10 weeks, therefore 10 classes. By around the 7th or 8th week, we start to write report cards for the kids in the classes, hand them in to the looked over for week 9 and then hand them out on week 10.
I thought that it would be a breeze, but I was very wrong.
I have many classes with little kids and I can't say that many of them are passing.
They all have the same main problem which is they can't float.
While writing report cards, I can't wright the same thing in them because of they're friends within classes and parents compare report cards, that doesn't reflect too well on myself.
There's only oh so many ways you can word "Remember to squeeze your bum and to look up at the ceiling to help you float!"
Personalizing every single report cards wasn't the issue, it was the phrasing.
However I have managed to get almost all of them done, I believe that I have completed around 65 report cards and only have 10 more.
I didn't realize that I taught so many kids.
As you could imaging, 65 report cards with 10 more to go, schoolwork and general life events have made it difficult for me to write.
My Sunday evening was spent at the dining room table, report cards and worksheets all around me.
I love blogging, it's something that I want to do seriously when I'm older, but at the moment other things such as work and school will have to come first.
Admittedly, I've been feeling stressed because of the report cards.
I honestly wondered if teaching and writing a total of 75 report cards was worth it when I could make sandwiches or pour coffee into a cup for the same amount of money.
Then I realized that it was.
It's such a great feeling when a kid gets something right after weeks of working on it and you can pass them to the next level.
Writing so many report cards is worst is because you get to know these kids over the span of 10 weeks and you get to know their personalities and some of them you grow to like.
One father asked if I would have his daughter next term and I honestly hope so because even though she didn't cover all of the skills, she was always smiling and having fun and that's what makes my job great.
There's always going to be a stressful factor whether it's report cards, the environment you work in, the location, the people, the coworkers; but if there's something to balance out that stress, then you know it's worth it.
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