seriously?

welcome to the latest edition of jordan's vent fest. i seriously do not know how much more i can take. today i was assigned to substitute again. nevermind the fact that i don't think it's really appropriate for me to be substituting. i'm brand new to the school system, country, etc... i mean, let me get my feet wet before you throw me to the wolves (aka 12th grade). i was already annoyed about having to sub again because of the aforementioned reasons... PLUS, i had a bulgarian lesson at the same time as the classes. it's really important for me to learn the language for obvious reasons, and it's been really hard to coordinate something with my tutor because our schedules are so different. (she is also a teacher).

anyhow, OF COURSE, i get to school today and none of the students showed up. they don't have the substitute system that we have back home. basically, the school gets a teacher who already works at the school to fill in if/when they have a free period. so sometimes, they will just cancel class altogether if there is no one available. so basically, the 12th grade was told they would have a substitute and subsequentially no one bothered to show up for either class. so not only did i waste my time sitting around waiting on students.... but i canceled my bulgarian lesson for nothing.

now i am waiting around for the next period to see if anyone comes to that. it is 11th grade and supposedly they will be there. as you can imagine, i am more than a little skeptical.