This is a personality flaw that is hugely disadvantageous, but I'm the kind of person who, when something interesting happens to them, despises telling their story over and over and over again.
I bring this up because I became hyper aware of my annoyance at everyone asking me how my first few days of student teaching went. Here's an example:
Person: "How was your first day of student teaching!?!?!?!"
Me: "It went well, I enjoyed it."
Person: "What did you teach?"
Me: *sigh* "Nothing much, it was the first day, we won't teach anything serious until Monday."
Person: "Then what did you do?"
Me: (exasperated) "Mostly sat around and helped with attendance."
Person: "Well that sounds boring."
Me: =/ "Um, kind of?"
It's bad enough I didn't have much to contribute because I was only there two days and we didn't do much but get used to the classroom and the schedule. But then came the stupid questions and statements that only served to irk me. And I felt like an asshole getting angry at these people, because they were genuinely excited and happy for me and were only trying to be pleasant. I really wish I had more patience.....
No comments:
Post a Comment