I learned today just how annoying, infectious, and maddening crying children can be! Today, at the end of the day during what should have been my cleaning time for my classroom, I had to help sub out on the playground. For over an hour I had to stand in the cold pouring rain, surrounded by crying children. I have no idea why all the crying children kept flocking towards me but, in the end, they were all somehow holding my hands while they just stood there crying non stop! It started with me finding one crying child (who missed her mom), so I tried to comfort her. She just wanted to hold my hand and walk with me. But then another cold and home-sick kid found me, followed by another! Before I knew it, I had three kids holding my hands, crying for their moms and complaining that it was too wet and cold to be outside. As if I hadn't already noticed! If it was up to me, I wouldn't be putting kids out in the cold rain for hours at the end of the day because clearly they don't handle it well!
So there I stood for over an hour, magnetizing every crying child, rain dripping down my hat and face, waiting for someone to come a relieve me from the playground. I was only suppose to be out there for a half an hour, but once I got out there, I was ditched! There was only me and one other teacher, so if I left it would put the child to teacher ratio out of balance. I was stuck! Everyone who was normally out there I guess decided it would be okay to totally dump their crying children on me and go back inside to get their cleaning done! By the time they came back, I literally had four minutes to clean my room before I had to clock out! It was ridiculous! To make matters worse, a parent teacher conference is being held in my class tonight and our classroom is a mess! The one night we're hosting a meeting with all the parents and I didn't clean the room!
The screaming, crying children absolutely drained me emotionally and the cold rain has chilled me to the bone (and of course now my throat is starting to hurt!) so I am completely done with today! I am pissed with everyone ditching me on the playground, and I am tired and achy from a busy day. I am done!
Sitting in an Pickle garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You get a tan from standing in the Pickle rain.
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