All the worlds a stage...

GUESS WHO GOT AN LTO!!!!!

For those of you not in touch with the teaching lingo of 2018, a LTO is a Long Term Occasional teaching position. This is when teachers require a supply teacher for more than 10 consecutive school days. Eg. Maternity leave, sickness, surgery, personal leave, etc etc.

AND I GOT ONE!

Here is how the story goes...

Imagine me sitting at the desk of an empty geography classroom in South Kitchener. I log onto my computer during my prep and I take a gander at the jobs available within my board for the next week.... fa la la la....I take a casual search of job postings..maybe a nearby school board is opening, maybe there is an opportunity for volunteer.. who is to know!

Fast forward about 20 minutes of awkward searching and sidetracked googling and BAM I see a posting for 2 periods of Dramatic Arts a few towns away.

I hmm and haaa about whether I should apply. "What a waste of time.. writing ANOTHER cover letter for a job not even in my board." Then I said F*^&@ IT and wrote my cover letter and was on my way to teaching my next supply class.

FAST FORWARD to 3 days later... a Friday if you will. I am sitting on the couch as it was a PA day for my board, and I get a call from an unknown number.
"Hello?" I say. "May I speak to Ashley please" "Speaking..." and then they offer me a freakin interview at the school for this drama LTO!

WAHOO! AN INTERVIEW!

I ask when and then things get awkward... I have supply work on Monday at the time they want to interview me... do I cancel my supply? do I cancel the interview? WHAT ARE MY ETHIC RESPONSIBILITIES!

I take the interview.

The weekend comes and goes and Monday shows up out of nowhere! Am I even ready for an interview!? I haven't done Drama in AGES, I'm a Geography person now! AHH!

Breathe Ash, breathe.

Lets speed this up..
-Walk into the school
-Get lost
-Find office
-Wait
-Principals office
-Get tangled taking off purse... make awkward jokes
-Answer questions
-Hesitate
-Answer questions
-INSTANTLY have to pee
-Done

Literally, in and out of the school in 30 minutes.

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!

Such a quick interview, they probably hated me.. it must have been the purse.. UGH!

I drive back to another school I had agreed to supply for that afternoon. I go about my business and sit down while the school finishes their lunch...I get a call.

WHAT THE MOTHER EFF! THEY'RE OFFERING ME THE JOB I INTERVIEWED FOR LESS THAN 3 HOURS AGO!

I must be a total boss. It has nothing to do with the lack of Drama qualified teachers in the area... Great job Ash :)

So that was a Monday, I started teaching on WEDNESDAY!

Fast forward one last time to today 05/24.. Ive been here just about 3 weeks and LOVING IT! 

Reignited my love of teaching Drama and I have gotten so so so lucky with the students I have and the colleagues I get to work with (one being a Brock Grad! weeooo!).

I am just overall really pleased with the opportunities I have been dealt since coming home from the UK in August. I thought I'd be at Tim Horton's waiting and waiting to become a teacher and get back into the classroom. Things don't always work out as you expect.

PACE,
Ashley :)