Deep breaths . . . deep . . . breaths

Well, today's one of those days where lots of stressful things have converged. I think I'm going to come out of it alright, though.

Tonight's my first night of student teaching, and I am nervous about how it's going to go. Actually, I'm nervous about how it's going to go for the other student teachers more than for myself, for different reasons. But my nervousness about them is distracting me from focusing on what I have to do.

The job I want to apply for in Chile actually has an application deadline of Thursday. However, I sent the program a message and got a reply from them that I can ask for an extension, and they'd love to have me apply. Now I just have to ask for that extension, which sounds easy, but as a procrastinator by nature, I might ask too late. My excuse this time is that I'm not sure about making an international long distance phone call this afternoon. NO excuses!

I'm going to do this application as soon as I can. However, I have the inconvenience of teaching on Thursday as well this week, so I'll have to focus on creating a lesson plan first.

My final stressor, one that is the scariest at the moment, is that my hours at work have been cut way back. I've felt pretty comfortable about money, but this will change a lot for me. Basically, everyone got a note that their hours would be cut back since business has been extremely slow since Christmas. And we might be expecting this regularly if it doesn't pick up again.

Boy, that makes me want to leave the country for a while.

I'll try to post again when I see the light at the end of the tunnel!