Life is Sweet

I totally forgot how utterly exhausting teaching school can be. It’s 8:30 on a Friday night… and I’m going to crawl into bed now.

I can’t believe how tired I am already…

Still. A great two days. The third year of teaching is much, much, much easier than the first two… Not only that, but: my class sizes are small, almost private-school-sized small (two sections of 17 students each and one of 24); I have, temporarily at least, a work-study aide who has graded my first two sections of pretests; the kids are actually _listening_ to me (huzzah!); and, best of all, at the end of the day, one of our master-teachers came by my room to pass on a comment she heard from one of my new kids, who says I’m cool and they’re glad they are in my class.

It does _not_ get much better than this. (Though the stamina to have a personal life wouldn’t be terrible…)

Good night, blogosphere!