Spoke Too Soon

Two blogs ago I said I was confident in my schedule, I should have known better than to say such a thing.

Before I tell you what happened I am reminded of a scene from a movie. So the original Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory, the one with Gene Wilder(no offense Johnny Depp). In the movie there is one scene that keeps replaying in my mind when I think of what I said.
The scene goes something like this: Wonka says "so little to do, so much time we have," then he goes stop, strike that, reverse it. I'm not postive of the exact lines yet I can't help but think that I should be doing the same thing.
Whatever I have told you before, stop,strike it, and reverse it.

On Tuesday morning I was asked to help with the timetable because there were more changes to be made. Now I had been aware that some of the Senior 1 students had complained about not being able to understand my English accent, but I really felt that should not have stopped me from teaching these two classes. The students would learn to understand, not to mention that in the long run it would have been helpful to them to have a native English speaker speaking to them, but whatever, its not my choice, and I am not going to make it a big deal.

This means that I found myself spending another 4 hours remaking the timetable againg for that what?teenth time??(I stopped counting after 5 times). Well while I was working on it I found out that the classes that I teach had been changed. I am no longer teaching my two S1 classes. Instead I was given another S5 and a S4 class. My schedule at the moment is now, S5BCM1, S5BCM2, S4BCM, and S4PCM, for a total of 23 hrs/week. In theory I have no problem with this, but it is a little odd taking a class that has been taught by another teacher for the past 6 weeks, not to mention that I most likely would not have given them the same notes..which makes it a little hard to just pick up where they left off since I would have never left off there..haha
But on the bright side it does give me a good lesson in teaching, having to be prepared to teach anything at anytime, even if I don't agree.

Hopefully in the next month, aka the last part of my frist term my schedule will not change..so here's hoping. :)