Prayers please!

I wouldn't normally ask for prayers for a field trip, but I definitely think that I'm going to need some tomorrow. I'm taking my crazy class to a farm tomorrow! We've only been on one field trip and it was to watch a concert. They were easy to handle in a contained space, but tomorrow they're going to have a lot of space to move and get lost!

I also need prayers because I don't know how much more patience I have for my crazy teaching partner. I sat through her going on and on about how she basically bosses the principal around (not true, he's not the type of guy that gets pushed around by anyone) and how great of a teacher she is. I know that she must have some serious self-esteem issues if she has to hear herself talk about how great she is, but it is so hard to take, especially when I hear her yelling at her class all the time. I almost cried when I split up my class for next year. She's moving up to grade two and half of my students are going to her. Those poor kiddies are going to get really freaked out when she yells at them on a daily basis. I've mentioned before, I'm not a yeller. I know that kids don't respond to yelling. Yelling to them means that they get to be louder. My teaching partner doesn't realize that.

She also rings an old fashioned teacher's bell (like the one that my elementary school teacher used to ring outside at the end of recess) in her classroom to get the kid's attention. Their poor ears!

Only six more teaching days left. I'm barely holding it together. The hot flashes are getting worse and I'm not exactly emotionally stable. I started to cry last night because Mr. JB was going to listen to the i.P.od while I was watching something on the F.ood N.etwork!

Thank God our basement is almost done and I can put my house back together.

Gotta go, I'm feeling a wave of heat overtake me. I need an icepack. Fast!

Argh!!!!