im ok

so im a bit overwhelmed bc they kind of screwed me over this cycle with scheduling. my contract says minimum of 35 hours, so being a new teacher i expected them to give me the minimum to allow me to get the hang of things, explore the resource rooms at the sites i would be working at (there are 4, and i thought i would be working at maybe 2 if not 1), develop my lesson plans for the 3 or 4 different levels that i would be teaching (that i could use again in the future), and get myself situated in other ways. well they didnt do that. they put me at 43 hours, all 4 sites at some point throughout the week, with 7 different levels. i wake up at 530, get on the metro by 6, start my first class at 7, after class work on my lesson plans for the afternoon, end my last class of the morning at 1230, eat lunch (sometimes), try and finish ALL of my lesson plans for the afternoon and the next morning until about 230, then take the hour commute to the next site for my class that starts at 4, then travel to the next site at 530 for my class that starts at 620, then get home by 830, and am in bed by 930. 

my days are long, but honestly i think ill be ok. i already let the higher ups know that they pretty much fucked me, and they seem to be concerned with that and have promised to remedy it the next cycle which starts in a month. i think things will only be kind of hellish until june, bc thats when the childrens program semester ends, which is the part thats killing me softly because its 5 different courses. and by june ill have a good base, and things will be much easier from then on.

ok so thats my life. it will probably be exactly like that until about march or april, but whatever im the masochist that likes challenging myself by getting a job im absolutely not qualified for and faking it til i make it, so i really should stop complaining.