140 Characters Aren’t Enough

I was updating my Twitter about how I was suddenly excited to start my job (it’s on Thursday, by the way!), and I kept adding another comment to that statement and then erasing it to choose a better one because they didn’t all fit into 140 characters. “Why don’t you just write a blog, then?” I told myself. So here I am. Sorry again – it’s not the long-overdue LeakyCon Day 3 (part 2) post.

I sent an e-mail to my co-worker today when I finished making my schedule, and asked her if everything was all right and stuff. I also got an e-mail from one of the bosses with the student list for the first camp. So now I’m all ready to go.

I can’t wait to see them. I was kind of scared, even yesterday, because I had no idea of who they were. Right now I know nothing more about them except their name and their grade (and date of birth – I checked if it’d be someone’s birthday during the camp… we’ll sing happy birthday or something… I might bring some cookies, that’d be cool! haha I’m so excited about that, poor little girl, she doesn’t even know who I am yet…). But yeah, just the fact that they have names and seeing that they actually exist makes me excited. That’s a good sign. I’m still nervous and a bit scared, but it’s in a positive way. It’d be bad if I didn’t care, wouldn’t it?

Also I found out that I was kind of bored today. I can’t remember the last time that it happened. Did I mention that I finished my summer course on Monday at around 8:15pm? This means that it was my first day off, my first day without anything school-related to bother me. When I finished writing that e-mail with my schedule, I didn’t have anything left to do to prepare for my job, either, so I wasn’t procrastinating anything. That was a strange feeling, actually. So I can’t wait to start my job so I’m not bored again! Yeah, well, I’m sure I’d find something to do of that time if I didn’t work this summer, lol.

Speaking of the summer, I have this awesome project with Marie-Eve, and I was afraid that we couldn’t do it because of me working all the time, but I think it’ll work out. In theory, I only work until 12pm every day (I’ll probably leave a bit later than that because of corrections and preparation for the next day, but still), so that leaves plenty of time on the rest of the day. It’s perfect. I just wish it paid a bit more but I’m not complaining – it’s more than what most of my friends make per hour.

And it’ll be fun. I can’t wait to start teaching – I’m going to learn so much from that experience! In November, I’m having my first teaching experience in a school (part of my bachelor’s degree), so I’m really happy to have the opportunity to teach before it “counts”. Not that those children don’t count – it’s just that it’s not going to affect my whole career if I’m bad. They’ll fire me and that’s it. I don’t think that’ll happen, lol, but I’m less nervous for that than I’d be if it were for school.

I’ll leave it here. That was way more than 140 characters, eh?

~ par Jacinthe le 24 juin 2009.