Day 48: Death By Boredom

Today was such a boring day!!!

Our elementary classes were all given a dialogue to memorize for class, and so we've been practicing it all class long for the last few days. It's a mock dialogue/conversation on eating and it's not so much the material that is boring, but the fact that we've been doing it over and over and over... I sit and recite the same words endlessly, while the kids recite the same responses back to me. It's completely dry and uninspiring but hey repitition is part of learning a new language and if this is what Steven wants us to do, then I gotta go along with it.

BUT IT'S JUST SO FUCKING BORING!!

Seriously, there was one point in class today that I thought I was gonna lose it. I have to recite this dialogue probably *at least* 15-20 times in each class, so you multiple this by 3 classes, multipled by 2 days, (and counting...) and that's A LOT OF REPETITION!!! I try really REALLY hard not to keep looking at the clock, cause everytime I do I swear it's moved backwards.... It's like being in a time warp or something...classes today went by soooooo sloooooowly. I know I'm sounding over-dramatic, but I guess I just didn't have the patience for it today.

And to make matters worse, just when I thought I was getting over my cold, I've started to lose my voice in the last few days. Yesterday, and especially today, my voice has been 'coming and going', cracking, groaning, and I just haven't been up to full vocal capacity. And in a job like this, you really need to have a good, strong, clear voice 100% of the time! This did not add to the 'fun and joy' of repeating that god-damned dialogue a million times over. But hey no one said that being an English Teacher was gonna be fun and games every single day. Today wasn't a bad day, just a really, really boring one!

Death to monotony!