time commitment

I just sat down and tallied up my responsibilities this year.  Every week I:

• am at school around 31 hours, teaching 24 lessons in 9 grades (from 1st kindergarten (3 years old) to sixth grade) and to teachers
• commute 8 hours to and from class
• physically attend class for 9 hours
• complete around four hours of homework (reading can be done on the bus, granted)
• plan for my lessons (At Krudy I usually spent about one hour per week straight-up planning for lessons per grade, plus time spent creating materials.  Obviously, I will not be doing that here: the teachers will provide me with a great amount of material.  But even if I spend only 20 minutes per grade planning/preparing materials, that's still 3 hours a week.)

In addition to these things, every two months I have to complete a final project for my two classes.  This time, it's a research paper and a didactic unit.  Every six weeks I have a training for the Beda program.  About once a month I have to dedicate a Saturday to something for school.  I also need to start writing my masters thesis soon enough, because I don't have a dedicated time for that.  I'll also hopefully give a few private lessons... Madrid is not cheap.  Madrid is EXPENSIVE.

I knew this was going to be a time commitment, but right now my head is spinning a little bit!  I know also that I can do this, it's just that I've gotten so lazy.  Give me some time and I'll get back in the swing of things for sure.  I think I can rest assured that I'll be doing a bit less traveling this year!

One place I will be traveling, though?  Budapest... I just bought a ticket to visit for the weekend of November 26th. :)