I've been in this position for just over a month now. Feels like an absolute LIFE TIME. I've only got 8 weeks left, once you take away all the school holidays they have over here. So...do I really need to make an effort to be friends with the people I work with? I guess technically I don't know anybody over here yet, apart from the people I live with....but that still doesn't convince me that I need to be social.
I haven't felt particularly invited into the teacher clique yet, although, that probably comes down to my shitty ability to read people. And perhaps my lingering teenage afinity to being an outsider. I just don't do groups very well. My goodness, what is it about being a teacher that makes me feel like I'm in high school again? And not in the obvious way...
I spend my lunch hours hidden away in the hole that is my 'classroom', doing work, rather than 'socialising'. Oh! Speaking of my hole, I finally took a picture of it...and of the adjoining classroom so you can get a sense of what I'm really missing out on.
So where do you get to draw the whole work/social line? Is being social a necessity? Especially if you aren't there permanently? Its not like I never talk to people...I'm very friendly and chatty to everyone, when I come out of my den. Oi....eight weeks and I can get back to supply teaching. I'd like to say the grass is always greener, but then I knew how freaking green it was when I was there.
