I feel enlightened... I think I just had my own study abroad experience. Two days of immersion in the world of faculty at a small public college may have forever altered my view of this job.
Highlights:
-Constant talk of faculty politics and union negotiating
-The Wednesday morning "breakfast club" with four faculty ladies, at which they chatted about everything from pumpkin pancakes to transgender coppermining in the Levant
-More talk of unions and senates and contracts
-A lengthy discussion of college sports and who has what athletes in what classes
-A post-breakfast-club birdwatching walk ("see that through the mist? That's Atlantic City!" and "oh, it's just a yellowrump.")
-pet ducks.
FacultyLand? Did you get a side job? Are you really a teacher!?
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