Back to s’cool!

The last day of my last weekend off before I return to work.

It’s so weird to be my older age and have these long periods of having work off, but that’s part of working at a school. I anticipate if/when I become a teacher my Summers will be a lot more activity-filled. And to be honest, this Summer felt a lot faster than last year. I went so long I genuinely started forgetting the daily regiment. Though being in a new class helped with forgetting the old regiment too.

This year, I’m moving to a whole new building. I’m heading up to the High School, with a new staff member and working with a much different age group then before. In fact, I don’t think it’s possible to have a sharper change in age group in the school district; from kindergartners to 18-21 year olds. But it’s a change I welcome and look forward to.

I worked Fridays at the High School this past Spring and took to it a lot better than I thought I would. When I first was considering being a para, I wanted to work with younger kids so much more since I had helped out with babysitting youngins’ over the years before. I thought for sure older students wouldn’t be the best fit. Oddly enough, I always thought if I taught, the opposite would be the case. I’m no math whiz, I always mess something up with science…but I feel comfortable with my writing (ya know, blog and wordy statuses and DMs and all that), and teaching younger children the finer points of writing……….yeah, that doesn’t click.

But here we are. A new experience, a new me.

I just hope the good will I’ve built in the last year in finding my stride and the work I did at the High School didn’t give the wrong idea. The “imposter syndrome” is real right now, if I’m taking too big a bite out of all this. But at the same time, there’s nothing to it but to do it. Who knows? Maybe this time next week, before we even have kids, I’ll feel like I’m ready to take on the world? That’d be nice.

In the meantime, I’ll enjoy this final day of my break……OK, well, there’s tomorrow too, but who considers Mondays a break, right?

“Whatever tomorrow* brings I’ll be there, with open arms and open eyes.”
* – or Tuesday, whatevs.

You are loved, you are appreciated, and you matter.