There is a stream of comments that comes to someone only when it is his/her first year on the job. Most focus on a genuine curiosity as to my experience in my first 12 months in our community. Others follow the theme that the pace/season must leave me absolutely exhausted and desperate for a long break.
Truth be told, while I sleep well (education is not a low-energy calling), I am not quite ready for the students to leave. I think of all the things I'll miss next Wednesday - shaking 400 hands to start the day, being called on to produce a third grade challenge project, being able to help the PreK with an epic game of hide and seek, knowing that at any point - among any group of GCDS students - I can start up a rousing chorus of "Oh GCDS" (you may have now realized how happy that makes me).
Savor and celebrate the time you have with your students this week and the first few days of next - they are precious and you'll miss them, all of them, even while you're on the beach this summer.
Truth be told, while I sleep well (education is not a low-energy calling), I am not quite ready for the students to leave. I think of all the things I'll miss next Wednesday - shaking 400 hands to start the day, being called on to produce a third grade challenge project, being able to help the PreK with an epic game of hide and seek, knowing that at any point - among any group of GCDS students - I can start up a rousing chorus of "Oh GCDS" (you may have now realized how happy that makes me).
Savor and celebrate the time you have with your students this week and the first few days of next - they are precious and you'll miss them, all of them, even while you're on the beach this summer.