Abide

Hoy cumplí tres semanas de mi tercer año de enseñar.  Y en camino a casa hoy estaba pensando en la diferencia grande de tener más experiencia.  Y además tengo el mejor horario.  Mi clases cambiaron la semana antes del comienzo del año escolar.  Iba a enseñar español 3 y 4 pero por el renuncio de dos de mis colegas no faltaba un maestro de español para hispanohablantes.  Así que decidí ofrecer a cambiar al horario de mi colega que iba enseñar esa clase y lo aceptaron.  ¡Y mis clases son fenomenales!  En serio, espero que no sea simplemente porque estamos a principios del año todavía.  Mis estudiantes parecen interesados en el español.  Participan mucho y quieren hablar.  :-D  Otra ventaja del cambio de horario es que ya no estoy enseñando español 3 lo cual me alivia solo porque tengo más libertad de hacer mis propias planes con los cursos que me tocan ahora.  Soy la única maestra de los hispanohablantes nivel 1 y solo hay una ma...

I go back to school Monday.   Mixed feelings.  A good deal of dread.  It's hard to give up control of your schedule and go back to the grind of way early mornings, bells, lesson planning, and grading.  Also, meeting new students a little overwhelming just because there's only one of me and so many of them.  It's exciting, but challenging. This summer had been crazy and pack, but oh so good, and I don't want it to end.   Here's a summ ary of summ er: Completed 2 classes: basic stats & general psych.   Visited UIC to inquire about their social work program. Took 2 classes at my school district to complete my mentor program. Bought a house.   Packed & cleaned the townshouse. Moved.  Unpacked.  Organized. Organized a a ridiculous amount of messy papers & important documents. Interviewed for a job outside of teaching. Awesome trip to St. John in the USVI. My schedule changed for school (as of last we...

It's Wednesday evening.  The first day of school this week after the freezing temps gave us two days off.  I'm inside keeping warm, waiting for my husband to get home, and feeling so thankful.  I can usually list off a pretty long list of things that I am thankful for, but the sad thing is that I don't always FEEL thankful for them.  I can acknowledge that they are good things in my life that I KNOW I am thankful for, yet sometimes I'm just not feeling grateful. Today I am very grateful.  I very much enjoyed having two extra days off this week.  Generally, during the school year, I feel like I can never catch up on sleep.  I wake up so early every day that usually on the weekends I can't sleep in long enough to feel like it has helped.  But this weekend I slept in.  Yesterday I slept until 10, and it was glorious. I am also thankful for my husband.   He is just so wonderful and loving, and we got to spend a lot of quality time toget...