Dear Mara,
The kids of 202 miss you dearly! However, I think that they and I will get along just wonderfully!
Well needless to say this semester will be very different from last semester... for many reasons. The first being the obvious: it is physically in a different place! I have literally a 5 minute commute! I cannot wait to start riding my bike!! The next being, yesterday morning the PTA supplied breakfast for us teachers and it was AMAZINGGGGG! It was a huge spread and deliciousness that my inner fat kid obviously loved. It was a very pleasant surprise! The next thing that is totally different is... well, I'm working in hogwarts! Steele is this cool mix of staircases, twists and turns and unexpected surprises all over and I will have fun figuring it all out. This morning when I woke up, I was full a strange mix of emotions. I was nervous, excited, ambivalent, confused, scared... well you get the idea. It was funny knowing that despite feeling like I was pretty solidly getting a grasp on life, I'm starting over again. There are 29 kids whose names I need to learn, a new mentor whose rhythms I need to learn and more importantly, a new community I need to create for myself. I am confident I will be able to do all of those things, but I can't lie... I miss my tollgate babies. They were in the back of my mind all day and I know they will always be in my heart as my first non-preschool class. The next thing that struck me as hugely different was when we passed "it" (it is a GIRL frog that the kids pass in order to speak) around to share exciting things that happened during break... The responses were " I got a nintendo Ds", "I got a nintendo DS 3D", " I got an iPad"... you get the idea. It was just so different from last semester where I was constantly reminded to thank my lucky stars for everything. It's not bad, it's just different. I am confident that I will come to love these kids just as much as I did the other, its just the hard part of this job. Kids stealing your hearts and then leaving your life, its just the way it goes. I’m just maybe not quite ready for that… at all. I’m really excited for this crazy adventure… Trevor is super cool and I’m really looking forward to working with him… As crazy as it is… IS IT TOMORROW YET???? I’m ready to get into the swing of things! To get to know the kids better and to just begin this fun adventure! I’m ready I’m ready I’m ready!
No comments:
Post a Comment