First day of school
Comments: 0 - Date: August 28th, 2007 - Categories: Education related
Yesterday was the first day of school. I was at home with my feverish four-year-old. As I sat on the couch watching a foreign film from Netflix that we’d had for like 3 months, I realized that, for the first time in 13 years of being in education, I was missing the first day of school. That feeling of walking into the building and seeing all the kids and feeling like you had just been there, done that. Helping kids in the hall with no idea where to go, giving your spiel about rules and supplies, collapsing exhausted with no voice at the end of the day. Wow. Weird. If I had gone into work, it would have been in the ad building. No kids, just a computer. I miss the first day of school. I miss the excitement and chaos and return to bad lunches. I’ve loved my new position, but I am looking forward to the day I will be able to get back on a campus with kids, problems to solve, and days that end voiceless.
