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Interesting Times #11/Sunday Update
Mar. 20th, 2022 01:23 pmI'm back in Minsk. I can hopefully just finish out the year and then go home. We've got exactly three months left until the last day of school. Something like 70% of the students are still here, while many staff are still out, especially at the secondary level. It'll be a challenge. Before I left Vilnius yesterday, I met up with two of my friends who are also on staff and are taking it week by week as to when/if they want to come back to Minsk. There are some hard feelings brewing, even though there are few, if any, good choices to make in this situation. We always say things like we have to take care of ourselves and our families, but when people make decisions that are at odds with what others think that looks like, woof, it can get ugly.
So far, I don't see a lot of actually ugliness in the feelings of our staff. We had a pretty good community to start with, unlike my last school which was a toxic stew even in the Before Times and has only gotten worse. I don't have any hard feelings toward my coworkers. I suppose that could change when I see what extra duties I might be asked to pick up, but probably it will be fine. I suppose it also helps to know that I only have these three months to get through. I gave my notice before actual war broke out. Minsk is just not the place for me. If it were still the best of times, when I could easily travel on breaks, then I'd probably stay, but it hasn't been the best of times for a few years, thanks to the pandemic, so I'm not missing anything of the Before Times because I didn't experience them here.
I am missing my creativity, but I have been recharging with books. And I dropped my GYWO goal this year from 240 days on the habit tracker to 180 in anticipation of all the changes I knew were coming. This should accomodate the changes I didn't anticipate as well.
Which is to say, there's no new snippet today. I need to write the test for tomorrow morning's class, and then I'm going to keep reading before meeting my friends for dinner.
Fingers crossed for Tuesday's job interview.
So far, I don't see a lot of actually ugliness in the feelings of our staff. We had a pretty good community to start with, unlike my last school which was a toxic stew even in the Before Times and has only gotten worse. I don't have any hard feelings toward my coworkers. I suppose that could change when I see what extra duties I might be asked to pick up, but probably it will be fine. I suppose it also helps to know that I only have these three months to get through. I gave my notice before actual war broke out. Minsk is just not the place for me. If it were still the best of times, when I could easily travel on breaks, then I'd probably stay, but it hasn't been the best of times for a few years, thanks to the pandemic, so I'm not missing anything of the Before Times because I didn't experience them here.
I am missing my creativity, but I have been recharging with books. And I dropped my GYWO goal this year from 240 days on the habit tracker to 180 in anticipation of all the changes I knew were coming. This should accomodate the changes I didn't anticipate as well.
Which is to say, there's no new snippet today. I need to write the test for tomorrow morning's class, and then I'm going to keep reading before meeting my friends for dinner.
Fingers crossed for Tuesday's job interview.
