You should have seen me this morning. I was pacing back and forth in my apartment going from one stack of papers to the other thinking only "what if? What If?" I was terrified of tomorrow coming. Tomorrow I'll be a teacher and not just on paper but honest to goodness the person in charge at the front of the classroom! Am I ready? hell no!... well maybe!
I got a lot of work done this afternoon then got my mind off of school stuff cleaning the apartment and getting together for dinner with my friend Jason. He is also a middle school Latin teacher in Norfolk who is going into his second year of teaching this year. His statement at dinner of, "Tomorrow everything is just going to fall apart" was oddly comforting and settled a lot of my fears and worries. If he is still here, smiling and ready for the year to begin even when everything fell apart for him last year I can do this! So, thanks to Jason I'm feeling fully confident going into tomorrow. I still am not exactly sure how the schedule at my school works or how I'm supposed to know when to take my students to lunch but it will all get worked out tomorrow. It will fall apart and I will ask my students to help me pick up the pieces and figure out how the whole teaching thing is supposed to work out!
Bring on day # 1!!!!
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