Today, marks my fifth day being an English teacher's assistant. I spent it like the other four days: grading and editing terrible Teen Wolf, One Direction and Doctor Who high school fan-fiction. Six months until I get out of here. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, during a regular checkup at the dentist, I got a wisdom tooth pulled out which resulted in me looking like a fat hamster. Tomorrow is my first day as an English teacher in high school. FML
Today, the Chinese student I've been teaching English to got on stage in front of hundreds of people to read her final essay. She ended with, "What a fucking day." I don't swear, and I no longer have a job. FML
Today, I've been sick for five days and I have two college essays and a exam coming up, along with a few other assignments. I've been working non-stop for five days with less than six hours of sleep per day, and more assignments are flowing in as I am working. FML
Today, my teacher said that since I was sick last week, I had to do all the work that the others had done, which I didn't know about because no one said anything about it. So now I've got to watch a total of 5 hours-worth of documentaries, and write analysis of them. Before tomorrow. FML
Today, I was hired as a student assistant. I was excited, until I learned on my very first day that "Supporting the academic staff in their research" actually meant walking the professor's dog. FML
Today, my parents got a call from my English teacher. She told them that I have 14 days of detention because I've been cutting class. I've been there every day, but apparently she never noticed me. FML
Today, I had 15 teenagers literally laugh in my face when I asked them to be quiet. I'm a student teaching in a high school, which is the culmination of 2 years of my life and $20,000, and I might in fact actually hate doing it. FML
Today, it was the last day of school. My students shared what they thought of me. Expecting to hear wonderful things, all of their complaints can be summed up in a few words: I'm a liar, a killer of dreams, I need to grow up, and I was a big disappointment to them. I'm a first-year teacher. FML
Today, I kissed my 3.5 GPA goodbye because my English teacher was too caught up planning her parrot's birthday party to put in the credit I deserve for three different essays I completed for her class. FML
Today, I realized some of my English students have just been going to their Philosophy professor to help them complete their essays. FML
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DocBastard 40
Count your blessings - no Twilight.
ItsAUnicorn 27
Good luck with reading stories that start all innocent, cute and lovely... And always end with gay sex :)
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Comments (86)
YellowKettleBell 31
I would love to have your job.
LunarDubstep 24
I love doctor who :3 but at least I get an A+ on all my stories
5secondsofvvifi 21
Fanfiction really isn't too bad, it's more of a regular story but with celebrity's names. But if there is alternate universe stories try to forget about where they're from, and just read it as a story, or announce to the class that you don't want them writing fan fiction.
Addiction333 14
Still a better love story then Twilight
sleepyolivia 14
I dunno, I love fanfiction and a lot of it is pretty awesome. But then again, it's not Teen Wolf, One Direction, or Doctor Who fanfiction. I've never read any of those fanfictions, but I'm just saying, Misfit by MelancholyMango on Wattpad has some awesome use of foreshadowing. However, I agree that fanfiction should probably be kept out of class unless it's either practice for analyzations or based on a book the class is reading together (we had a warm-up assignment one day where we had to predict the next chapter of a book by actually writing it).
peterblackmer91 12
I'm thinking you're not cut out to be a teacher.