Unplanned School Vacation

A few people have been asking how school has been since coming over here. I'm about 2/3 the way through my Master's in School Psychology and Applied Child Psychology through the University of Calgary back in Canada. It's an online program that allowed me to work full-time and do school, which was fantastic (but costly on several dimensions).

So as I sit here currently courseless in Korea, the answer to that question is mixed. Regular semester courses have been fine, I have lots of time to watch the classes, assignments are easy to manage since they're spread out, and group work can be handled between weekends and early morning/late evenings when they're needed.

Stats kicked my butt, and I am nearly sick with the thought that I have to do *2* more courses in it!! I wish that I could even say that the foundation for one would give me a reason to be calm about the others, but they are all 3 completely unrelated! It was packed into 6 weeks though, so easy come and easy go.

I was to have started an ethics course this week just past. I actually went to the first class on Friday morning. Most teachers have been fine with my inability to attend the classes in person since I'm over here in Korea and they're over in Alberta... class time there is Thursdays 5-8pm, which makes it Fridays 8-11am here, so there's no way my boss would give me the next 6 mornings off. As I was saying, most teachers have been fine with my doing the first 30 minutes and then watching the recordings at the end of the day, but no matter which way I explained it, this one wouldn't budge. "You will have to make arrangements for the  next 6 weeks as you will be expected to be present or you will not pass the course" was the email message after I wrote to ask her if there was any room in the requirement. Today's message was "I hope you can accommate the University demands in another time good luck."

I had the thought that I should email the Program Director, because I'm pretty sure the way this whole program runs is that they can't MAKE you be present, but that you are required to watch all course videos and complete all assignments and discussion boards.

Right now I'm too annoyed, because I think she may have just set my M.Ed. graduation back a year, so I'm going to hold my tongue for a bit and check out my program manual before looking up the boss. Grr.  I'll figure it out.