The End

After thinking that I just might die if we had one more day of school, we have arrived at Fall Break. And how are you celebrating, you might ask. By waking up at the crack of dawn as usual, listening to the cats bang against my bedroom door as they sense that I am no longer in a deep sleep, throwing them outside, and attempting to listen to "This American Life" if iTunes will let me download the most recent episode. I know that, at the end of break, it will be difficult to wake up at my normal school-schedule time but right now it is frustrating that I can't sleep in when I want to!

I think my students and I will be happier campers once we've had a bit of a break from each other. I had a couple small incidents in my classroom yesterday that just made me livid. I brought one student out into the hallway with me to reprimand her. I just keep reminding myself that that was almost a daily occurrence at York. I was just so disappointed and shocked! And I think the combination of those two emotions made it so that I didn't handle the situation properly. However, I think that there are always things that I will second-guess myself on. Perhaps when you stop second-guessing how you handled a situation or taught a concept, you've lost that learner's touch that is so essential for a teacher to have.

Yesterday afternoon, Kim and I did celebrate the beginning of break by hitting up our local Starbucks. "Local" wasn't incredibly local yesterday - a 25-minute drive. It was so nice though! Then to Lara's for a great dinner of homemade pizza. And finally, back up to campus for closing night of the Senior Play - "Emma." Brought back memories of student directing my senior play. That was a lot of fun!