sicko

i only had a 3 day work week, and yet, by the end of it, i was completely exhausted. i got home from the philippines on tuesday night and went back to work wednesday morning, very curious to see how things were going to work with half the amount of teachers. they hired a korean teacher to help out with the kindergarten in the morning, but in the afternoons, mary and i have just had to combine classes and add more to our teaching load. we've managed to keep a music class (which i am so happy about), but now on top of music, i teach some in the classroom as well, and what it comes down to is that neither of us have a moment throughout the day where we are not teaching. no prep time, no down time, no breathing time. it is an adjustment. i think i'll get used to it. i hope.

but i think all the stress from before christmas and traveling for a week and a half and coming back to work doing twice as much work as usual caught up to me b/c by the time i got home friday night, i felt completely beaten. i woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible fever and i was sweating and shivering and turning up the heat and then running downstairs to turn it down and putting on big socks and layers and then ripping them off 5 minutes later. it's been awful. i haven't left my apartment in 2 days. i think my body finally saw a moment to show how exhausted and stressed its been. it's sunday night and tomorrow morning i have to wake up to an entire week of intense teaching and being sick is just not an option. so pray for my health, paleeeeeaase...