Exhausted... how can that be?!?! It was a four day week! It feels like it should be the beginning of the school year again. The kids are wild! The teachers are out of shape and it is nearly grueling! However, it has the excitement of the beginning of the year too. For some reason I am loving the kids, more now then ever. Even though one student made my blood pressure rise, yes I felt it and at 23 years old I should not feel it rise! Thankfully I learned in my student teaching days, count to 10 and you can be over it, wait a class period and the kid will be over it. Either way the show must go on! Sure enough, the next day the kid was really kind to me, asking me questions and having a good time.
I have a smile book at school. It is where I write down all the things the kids do or say that crack me up and make me want to stay in this career for another day. Since we all know there are days where we all think about changing our careers completely. This week I was able to add two "make me smile stories" to the book. Have some quality conversations with the kids and cherish the moments of being an 8th grade teacher for a little while longer. Then it occurred to me...
Anytime I say I am a middle school teacher people always say, "that takes a special person" Wrong, it takes a person that wants to be there. It takes a person to see the good shine a little bit brighter than the bad, and it takes a person that can laugh off the moments when you want to curse or cry. AND we all have those qualities, some just have a little bit more practice in this form of art. AND that is why I love working with these kids.
I love this job! I love to teach! I love kids! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE... thus why it is still so gosh darn hard to wait. But wait I must. God is love, he won't let me down and take away my love. This I know, This I trust. Happy Weekend!
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