So...you have been away from teaching for about 10-12 days. You hopefully felt relaxed and were able to catch up on some well-deserved sleep and rest. I know that is probably a little idealistic, but it sounded positive! Well, in reality you are just NOW able to relax and catch up on sleep and tomorrow is New Year's Eve!In a few more days, for most of you, it is back to schedules, lesson planning, testing, interventions, ...
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Okay...so I decided to remove all my shoes out of the closet to reorganize and see exactly what I had going on in there. After all, I am retired and isn't that something all retirees should do at some point during the fall when everyone is back teaching and you are sitting home? Of course the shoes were, and I emphasize were, in pairs, but it was a challenging job to get them all out so I thought...oh let ...
Yesterday I was notified that I was in a video that my school district showed at their "First Day Back For Teachers." My first thought was: Geez I am retired and I am not even there to see it, but many of my colleagues sent it to me so I was able to view it. There were clips of many teachers doing their job and I felt very fortunate to have been in the first few minutes ...
Today has been an interesting day for me. The teachers from my district (my former colleagues) had their first day back. I have to admit...it felt a bit strange not going back to school today so my friend, who also retired last year, and I decided to go to breakfast to celebrate our new found freedom. We chose to go to the Llanerch Diner and we were seated at the booth ...
