Let Me Thrive

A teacher who needs more escapism

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About Me

I’m currently a grade 2 teacher teaching at the Canadian equivalent of a title 1 school without the extra funding. I’m just trying to find more escapism through reading to have a personality outside of teaching.

Teaching posts are mostly me venting so I don’t take negative energy home, crying about behaviours, phonics instruction tips, as well as general things educators would love to tell parents but can’t because of the TQS.

I mostly read Danmei or queer lit.

You can find books I’ve finished reading if you search my tags

Books I’m currently reading:

- Ballad of sword and wine

- Heaven official’s blessing (Vol 3)

- Hungerstone

Books on my TBR/want to read

- Wolf Song

- Don’t let the Forest In

- Heaven Official’s Blessing (Vol 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

- The disabled tyrant’s beloved pet fish (Vol 2, 3, 4)

- The Wife Comes First (Vol 2, 3, 4)

- SVSSS (all volumes)

- QJJ (Vol. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

- ERHA (all volumes)

- The Little Mushroom (all volumes)

- Astrolabe Rebirth

- The Defectives

- The Approach

- Guardian (all volumes)

- Remnants of Filth

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We’re going to the zoo tomorrow and it’s gonna be pouring rain. RIP 💀

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Today’s trials and tribulations only included what to teach for social studies (cause we’re literally done our last unit with 13 days left), writing report cards and EAL (english as additional language) comments.

They want us to make the EAL comments so wordy. Ex. An approaching level of understanding reading was demonstrated. This was demonstrated by reading decodable passages where the student successfully read utility words and simple repetitive sentences.

Why the fuck are we making EAL so wordy when the families are literally still English language learners and Google Translate can only go so far??? 😭 it’s so discriminatory

Also, today I’m catching up on my sapphic lit book for my book club

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It’s Saturday, the sun is shining (for now), and my coffee is iced

You know what that meanssss

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GUIISEEEE

It literally won’t stop raining 😭 I don’t want to teach onlineeeee 😭 I haven’t even set up my Google Classroom properly cause I didn’t have access to the password changing tool until after spring break so it just felt pointless to get it going plus I teach second grade what homework am I gonna put on there???

Fuuuuuuck

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I just finished QJJ!! Omg! 10000/10

It had such a slow start and had so much political intrigue, warfare and it was sooo dense but I really thought that the repetitive nature of light novels really played into its strength this time cause otherwise I would have been so confused haha

Love the spice at the end, perfect and I can’t wait to start volume two.

I’m going to move onto the third volume of heaven officials blessing so stay tuned

No balc pics today cause it’s actually flooding here

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I’m definitely not going to keep up daily updates or stories of my classroom (I’m so tried at the end of the day, I can barely remember anything that happened 😂) buuuuut my students continue to enjoy math, they love getting the right answer and understanding math concepts. They were getting soooo hyped up today during our addition and subtraction review. My little hype crew 🥰

I may have barely gotten past the first two hundred pages of pure politics, but it’s reaching peak territory

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As I get closer to next year, the more worried I become. I’m moving from grade 2 to grade 4 which means I have my kids from last year.

Last year was a nightmare. I was a shell of my former self, I was crying, tired, apathetic to everyone and everything around me. I was hit, had chairs thrown at me, screamed at, and burned out before the second semester even started. I’m thankful my relationship lasted through that era of my life, my boyfriend is so loving and caring. My family was supportive.

Now, I get to relive those memories once again with those students. I want to cry every time I think about it. I feel like my principal hates me. This year was lovely, I started to feel like myself again and discover my old joys and personality.

I’m terrified. I don’t want to become that person again. I don’t want to lose everything that made me, me, again. I don’t want to dread waking up.

Anyways, yaoi on the balcony.