I cannot believe it is March 2, (and 20 degrees to boot). Despite some slow weeks and adjusting to my first year of teaching, this year, as a whole is going so quickly, I can barely keep up. This time last year I was counting down the days till student teaching was over, and now I am trying to slow time down until the end of the year. While I complain that March is going to be a slow month, with only one day off for PD, I know I will miss teaching come summer. I will miss the people, and (most) of the kids, being a routine, and having something to do each day. Not that I will be bored this summer taking a full load of grad school classes, but it will be different. I think there will be a great sense of accomplishment at the end of the year, that I made it through my first year. These last three months, after Christmas break, I have fallen into a good routine with teaching, I feel like my plans are creative, I get the kids up moving, I feel like they are learning something, and besides the parent that told me the reason that his son had a D in my class was because he was GIFTED, and was not being challenged, the year has been going really well. With my feet on the ground with teaching, I was able to become close with two teachers at school that really have welcomed me with open arms. I feel fortunate they have been so supportive, and absolutely hilarious to work with. Since I am my own department, teaching can often feel isolating, and so venting my sarcasm to other teachers was not always possible. However, I have come to rely on these two teachers, on their classroom experience, advice, shared middle school stories, and their acceptance of me into their “group.” They are pretty great people, really good teachers, and I feel really lucky to be able to work with them every day, as colleagues and as friends. There are just some people that come into your life that you just naturally click with, you just feel comfortable talking to, they just understand your situation, your personality, your sense of humor, you have so much in common in very different ways, there is always someone there if you are having a good day or bad, I have realized the importance of having work friends, because I would go insane without adult interaction dealing with 12 and 13 year olds all day. I feel lucky that both of them came into my life during this crazy first year of teaching, and during this crazy often confusing part of life. A lot of different people have come into my life, and it’s funny how once they arrive, you cannot imagine your life without them in it. They come in and bring more clearly into focus where your life is headed, who you are as a person, what you value, and what you deserve.
I am going to Florida in exactly 6 weeks, I am so excited I cannot even take it. It is a LONG overdue trip to visit some amazing friends, and I cannot wait. I am so happy that I have the money and time to go, and so happy to get out of this negative degree weather, seriously, enough is enough. I have the travel bug, Florida in 6 weeks, Europe for the summer????:)
Seriously though, in addition to grad school, I am looking into doing some sort of volunteering this summer, I have this drive to help people lately, I like the way it makes me feel. We will see how it goes and what I can find.
So my 5k. I hurt my knee and am currently wearing a knee brace, but I am still running 3 times a week, elliptical one a week, weights once a week. I am sore, my hips are cracking, my knee is throbbing, but I am determined to make it across that finish line in May.
So its WEIGHTS day, so I am off to work out to ALL THE SINGLE LADIES…..until next time:)
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