As I completed my first year teaching, I had plans on relaxing all summer. You know, sitting around doing nothing...well not really. I wanted to work on my writing and blog a lot more. I also wanted to spend time concentrating on school (one more year of grad school left!). Tuesday the chair of my department at work called me in to work for a summer school program. The job is very easy. All I do is sit at a desk all day and tell the students to get off of myspace. That's it. It's so boring, but it does pay $25 an hour. By working 9 hours a day for three weeks, I'm able to rack up a nice piece of change. This money would make for a great savings cushion, but I recently purchased a MacBook (soooooo worth it) and this money will be used to pay off that purchase.
After this assignment is done, I'll be attending a conference in Orlando, FL which is paid for by my job. The conference is a week long and I pick up my plane tickets and money this week. Once I get back, I have to teach a week long course for students that have to retake their state standardized exam and I also have to proctor the exam the week after that. Once I'm done with that I'll have a week to myself, which I plan to travel to Jacksonville and Maryland to visit friends. After that vacation week, it is back to work for school in-service. So this summer is ending up to be very busy for me! I definitely did not plan on this, but I am glad all this happened becuase I got a chance to purchase something I've been wanting for a while and then it keeps me busy.
I do feel that I have gotten off track with a lot of things. I'm not as structured as I used to be. I've been spending more and most of the time is on silly unnecessary things. I feel like I need to get back to survival mode, like I was when I first started this blog. Then, I was dead broke, working minimum wage depressed because I couldn't find a job with my degree, and I was frustrated with the process of correcting my credit report. I was making plans to get out of my situation and I feel now I've gotten comfortable, which I shouldn't be.
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