Not only is it the last day until the weekend, but I also only teach 5 classes instead of 6 on Fridays, which gives me time to do all the other things I need to do during working hours... Or go on facebook, depending on how I feel.
Yesterday was Thursday. Thursdays are not the best days, and I was very harsh with the kids. It's just so tiring knowing the the weekend is coming but you not only have to work today, you have to work an entire day tomorrow.
But not on Friday! I know that I have only another # classes before I can go home and take a nap. Or go drink a beer. Or grade all the stuff I need to grade... No, I have all weekend to do that. Today is Friday. Today I do nothing.
But on top of all this relaxing and awesome free-time after a stressful week of teaching, I have found that I am also a much better and more patient teacher on Fridays. Maybe it's the knowledge that I am soon to have 2 whole days of doing whatever I want, maybe it's the fact that I get so many breaks, maybe it's the classes I have on Friday, or maybe it's that the students are really happy to be almost done, too, but I will teach the same lesson on Thursday much differently than on Friday. I will also be much harder on my students Monday-Thursday. Way more warnings are given out on Fridays. A lot more jokes are made. I will hum and sing to myself.
In conclusion, Fridays are great.
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Advice to anyone wanting to teach in a foreign country: Learn the bad words and the insults of where you're going. One of the students could call you an insulting word and you would have no idea, when really he should probably get expelled for a few days for calling a teacher a "faggot" to his face. Well, a maricon, but you know.
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