So, I was cleaning out our office and I found an old journal of mine from last year. (First year of teaching) I'm really sad I didn't stick with it because I'm sure it would have been hilarious. Here's an excerpt from pretty much the only thing I said about school.
November 18, 2009
"Well 1st year teaching is no longer killing me. Do I absolutely LOVE it? No. Do I wake up each morning full of excitement that that's what I get to do every day? Definitely no
t. Do I just want to give up and take my own life and hope that somehow that is pardonable? Not anymore! Baby steps."I thought I'd share that since not much is going on in my actual life right now. No trips or anything at least.
I have been starting to think a lot about school and I think it's kind of stressing me out, but I am hoping for much improvement on my part or at least a little from experiencing the horrors of my first year. I think out of fear I'm just trying to think of any and every little thing possible I can prepare. Now I'm starting to think I should have been doing this all summer. I even started a blog about teaching stuff generally and my classroom specifically. If you look on my profile it's my other blog listed. I hope to keep up with that once school starts and journal about each day giving the kids code names or something, and of course not posting their pictures. I can do that right?
I gotta get my sleep pattern fixed before school starts! Off to bed!
