{"id":1090,"date":"2011-09-01T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T05:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2011-09-09T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:28:04","slug":"remember-when-i-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Remember when I said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was really excited about only having 12 (maybe 14) teaching hours this semseter.\u00a0 Part of the reason I was so excited was so I could put more effort into studying Chinese.\u00a0 (My listening is improving tremendously, thank you for asking.) \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I was going to have weekend class and two tutor kids, each twice a week.\u00a0 Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>However, things change.\u00a0 The FOC Homeschool is beginning it&#8217;s first year and I&#8217;m its math teacher.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to teach math. (add three hours a week)\u00a0 My Chinese friend Gretl taught for a Co-op (sort of like a homeschool with a few different families who have a few teachers for a few subjects and the rest is done online) last year and asked me if I was interested in teaching for this co-op.\u00a0 They want a native English speaker to teach them English\/Literature and also Physical Science.\u00a0 There are 5 girls in this class. Three are 13, one is 15, and one is 17.\u00a0 The 17-year-old also wants me to tutor her in math so she can take the SAT.\u00a0 (add 1.5 hours for science, 1.5 hours for English, 1 hour for math)\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to teach these girls, too.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;.I see my free time dwindling away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I find myself with 19 teaching hours, only 6 Chinese class hours, and 4 B studies.\u00a0 We need to revisit this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other news: The brakes work on my bike (for now), I&#8217;m still not entirely unpacked, I&#8217;m photographing a wedding on Sunday, my washer still jumps around, and I have 1.5 days to plan my classes for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.\u00a0 I better quit here!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was really excited about only having 12 (maybe 14) teaching hours this semseter.\u00a0 Part of the reason I was so excited was so I could put more effort into studying Chinese.\u00a0 (My listening is improving tremendously, thank you for asking.) \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I was going to have weekend class and two tutor kids, each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}