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Firstly, sorry for how deadly silent I’ve been. A lot has happened and there was a period of time I wasn’t really feeling my tc BUT ever since I saw him not too long ago during qrntn (my school re-opened) things have changed haha. For better or worse idk??
Also because I’m kinda late here are the answers for the first six days :))
1. What was your first impression of your tc?
This is going to be really hard to explain without going in depth about how I first met him. But to explain it briefly he came off as a very bold, friendly person ofc he was gorgeous too. But he also seemed like one of those teachers who’s genuinely invested in their students which was nice because I haven’t had many of those :)
2. Is your tc single or taken? or are you unsure? and are you single or taken?
I’m pretty sure he’s taken and that his gf is another teacher. They arrive at and leave school together. I’ve seen them twice now. Around twice before qrntn and once more during the time lockdown was kind of lifted and I was at school. Which obviously means they were like together during qrntn because no mixing with other households (as we knoW). Also some of my friends have seen him and her together at other times as well haha. Eventhough reason would suggest he’s taken it’s not something I know for sure. So maybe he just has a female roommate?? Haha okay no. That sounds stupid.
3. How long have you had feelings for them, and what made you realize that you did?
I’m not sure tbh towards the start I definitely did but then it kinda started to be an on and off thing (hence my absence on here). I realised I did when I started to really care about what they had to say about my work and I started to care about how I was coming across to them. It was also when I started having conversations with them outside of the classroom that I really gained some insight on what he’s like as a person rather than just a teacher yk??
4. Have you kept in touch with them during quarantine/online learning?
During online learning I was kinda slacking off so no BUT THEN my school reopened and when I went in and had him for actual lessons it was fucking great. And I actually ended up having a really good conversation with him during the middle of the week in his office. I wasn’t supposed to see him but he wanted to give me back a grade or something and asked me to like come in - so I did. And then he kinda like turned it into a conversation but yeh the energy was gooood.
5. Is your tc more of the athletic type, the nerdy type or the artsy type?
Athletic type! As well as being an English teacher he’s also a coach for one of the sports teams at my school. I’ve seen him a couple of times because of that near the school field or lugging around sports gear haha.
Also he’s definitely nerdy about his subject. He loves to use big words that no one understands and we have to get him to give the definition of and he just seems like a very learned person haha
6. If you and your tc were in high school together, do you think you’d be friends?
That’s a really good question and the truth is idk. We’re quite similar but we’re also quite different. We’d probably be taking the same subjects and playing the same sports so I’d at the very least be acquaintances with him but friends? Ns. Maybe a better answer is I don’t see why we wouldn’t be :)
I got these questions from @baeby-tc and @sheisthesweetest-tc . Then I kinda mixed and matched them like @honeydewloveme :)
If you don’t know how to start up a conversation with your tc, since Christmas is coming up, write them a Christmas card!!
If you don’t want people to get suspicious write Christmas cards for all your teachers (if you have too many, maybe your favourites other than tc) but just make your tcs really personalised.
If you want to seem even less suspicious get other people to sign it as well, like the rest of your class (just their names or maybe a little message with that) and after everyone has, you can write a personalised paragraph or two yourself without people finding out how personal you made it or how much you wrote.
If you’re not sure about when to give it to them, I’d suggest on like the last day or two days (in case they end up not coming in or something) before the Christmas break or at the end of your last lesson with them before the break. You can go to their office and hand it in and have a little chat or you can just do it after lesson and have a little chat. If it’s after lesson you probably want to wait behind a bit so it’s not awkward for you if people see you or end up listening in on your conversation and also so you don’t feel rushed. I’m telling you about it now so you have time to think about what you’re gonna write, what card you’re gonna get etc etc (if you don’t have the money to buy one, make one!!)
Good luck!!
P.S. this is a little disclaimer, please respect their privacy and don’t do anything reckless that’ll get them to lose their job.
P.S.S. This is also applicable to birthdays. If you know their birthday you can write one for then too.
I went to give in my essay today so we talk for a bit about it and then he goes ‘I wish everyone could be as proactive as you but don’t tell everyone about doing this because then it’d be too much for me to get through, if it’s just you it’s fine’ I was buzzing tbh. Later on I go ‘I just want to apologise as well because I probably should have given it in before the half term so you’d have the time to mark it, but that’s due to my own being unorganised’ he replies with ‘don’t ever apologise for giving in extra work, I’ll find the time’ he’s honestly so sweeeet like the way he said it makes me feel like I should never apologise for anything ever again to him, it was lowkey overwhelming. I then asked ‘Am I distracting??’ and he seemed to be thinking really hard about this and struggling to come up with an answer so I expanded and said ‘like in lesson would you say I’m disruptive, I just wanna know so I can be more self-aware’ he said that it wasn’t necessarily me but the girls on my table (E + J haha I mentioned them before) saying how he was going to implement a seating plan, obviously I don’t want to move because they’re my friends so I literally go ‘noooo pleaseeee don’t Sir’ begging like a fucking child, it worked though. He says he was going to give it one more week, now this wasn’t enough for me and I say ‘how about we make an agreement (he was very amused at this point) if we’re good next week we can stay in the same places’, ‘okay fine, fine’ he says and I’m just smiling uncontrollably because everything was in harmony again. We joked a bit more before I left but I realised that I’d gone without wishing him a good weekend so I quickly popped my head past the door and said ‘happy weekend!’ The confrontation was great tbh, if anything maybe this is a platonic infatuation I have for him, is that a thing?? (if not, I’m making it a thing now lmao) I can acknowledge he’s attractive but honestly I just want to be close to him (like close friends). Also I forgot to ask for his birthday, also also, it was easier to talk to him because he normally shares his office with other teachers but when I went to see him he was the only one there so that was a plus.
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Tc community: Wandering the halls like you’re lost just so you can potentially cross paths with your tc in the corridors
re downloaded the app and thankfully no reply
but
what if i get in trouble or she hates me or won’t speak to me anymore ???
i already don’t know what to do because i am officially out of school. it’ll only be a few weeks before we lose our school email addresses , i have no reason to be in school anymore and to top it off she’ll be away all summer . it’s pretty common here to come back at christmas time after you have started uni to say hi to teachers , but i can’t wait that long . 7 years can’t be reduced to this .
and it hurts so so so much because no matter how strong my feelings are it won’t change anything for her and there is nothing i can do to change that and the email was . stupid . but here we are
my friends and i went out the other night and i got drunk and emailed her 😭😭😭😭😭so embarrassed i just deleted the whole email app
it wasn’t even bad , but i have to go in and give books back now so going to be very awkward. also mildly afraid she’ll hate me ??
stop talking to other students and kiss me
“does your crush go to this school?”
…..yeah. something like that.
I just wanna fall asleep on the couch watching documentaries with u or something. I just wanna be with you without being in class, I’m sorry, I know it’s weird. But something’s pulling me towards the person you are underneath all the teacher shit. I want you to see the person I am underneath all the student shit.
You probably don’t feel the same, I understand, but it still hurts nonetheless. I want it so much it hurts. Walking through the hallways, sitting in class, on the bus, it hurts.
I wish I could tell you, and I wish it wouldn’t be so awful if I did.