Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Room 214

I am here, in my classroom, feeling excited about the upcoming school year. For almost 40 years August has been an exciting month for me...

thinking about what the new school year will bring...

reflecting on how nice it is to have a fresh start and to avoid the mistakes made the previous year...

wondering who will be in my lunch...

shopping for pretty binders and new clothes...

changing my room around and putting up new visual candy...

vowing I'll gossip less this year...

dreaming those awful dreams of being unprepared while the kids go wild...

knowing that THIS will be the best year yet...

This cycle is something that I love, like the changing of the seasons, feeling the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. Check back next June and you'll read a different angle, but for now my grudges have dissolved, my frustrations have melted away, my discontent has vanished. I feel refreshed, energized, renewed. I am a teacher, and I am blessed.

my room, as a photocubist collage

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