Teacher Kat Goes to School

Monday 12:02am, Text message sent to Ferdie: “Please don’t think of me. I can’t sleep.

12:03am, Ferdie to Kat: “Sorry, can’t help it.”

4:30am, Kat wakes up and gets ready for school with barely four hours of sleep.

5:30am, Kat arrives at the office where she thought she had left her class cards.

5:31am-6:00am, Kat frantically searches her workstation for her missing class cards and registration form. She does not find them.

6:01am onwards,Kat travels from Makati City to her school in the far, far south.

7:30am, Kat’s first class. And she’s still on a jeepney, still 15 minutes away.

7:45am, Kat indulges herself to a Jollibee breakfast to feel better.

8:00am, Kat explains to the exasperated clerk at the registrar’s office that she lost all of her documents.

8:00am-9:00am, Kat’s processes a request for a new registration form and new class cards. She finally gets new ones.

9:01am-10:30am, Kat walks around the school, waiting for her next class.

Three high school boys on the third floor of the high school building calls her, saying “Ate, what’s your name?”

Kat thinks “Ampft, gumalang pa kayo.”

Kat goes to the publication office several times, but it was always closed.

Kat suddenly discovers her index finger bleeding, and does not know how she got cut.

Kat sits on a table in the cafeteria and shared that table with high school students. (Loooooser!)

10:30am, Kat goes to class. The professor has got the colds and was asked not to go to school because of the A (H1N1) scare. (One hundred forty-seven cases in the Philippines as of writing time.)

11:00am, Kat goes back to the office and takes one sachet of Extra Joss.

7:15pm, And another sachet of Extra Joss

8:30pm, Kat yawns for the 76th time today.

and struggles not to fall asleep while teaching….

 

Okay, maybe I overestimated my own powers.

Tomorrow is another day.