Today, I spent a sizable chunk of the day at my office at the BC Institute of Technology. I knew that I'd start classes next week. What I didn't know until yesterday, is that I shall also be spending the next 5 1/2 weekends there too.My boss called to ask if I could pick up two classes during November. I reluctantly agreed. I surely want to make things easy for our department. My usual class will meet weekday afternoons. Additionally, my weekend course runs from 8:30 to 4:30 on Saturday and Sundays! I'm not sure how educationally or physiologically sound that schedule is. Yet, I've taught it in the past and was shocked to see the great progress the students made. It just goes to show how extremely motivated some of our Professional English Language Development students can be!
I was just saying in this blog this week how I had been out of the classroom for three months. I think it's strange that I'm going to be practically living in one from the month of November. It some strange way, this feels like the hangover for being so relaxed since the beginning of August!