Moar snow days!

[lunadelcorvo]

Yes, folks, I was off today, and they called it around 2pm for tomorrow. That's a FULL extra week of break. Which is awesome!

It's also weird! I didn't have anything planned, and the snow made going anywhere impossible, which isn't a problem by itself. But I just sort of feel like I'm in some weird time bubble. There was already a sense of strangeness about the holidays this year, and now I'm in this long liminal thing... I know, cognitively, what day it is, but I don't have any feeling of time, if that makes sense.

It doesn't help that I know the kiddos will be freaking insane after the extra long break. They are not as bad as the crew last year, but gawd, they can be tiresome at times. Ah, well, I have three more days to chill, anyway.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Given the kinds of kids I taught- severely disabled and/or terminally ills kids- they were always glad to get back to the place they felt was normality and to someone who saw them as her kids.

[lunadelcorvo]

There are definitely some who will be glad to get back (mostly for different reasons!), but even then, as middle schoolers, that will manifest as bouncing off the walls... At that age they couldn't sit still or stop talking if their lives depended on it!

[cmcmck]

I don't miss teaching since retirement but I DO miss my kids! :o)

[lunadelcorvo]

For me, in some ways, it's the reverse. I feel like I am not really 'teaching' these days (more on that at some point in a loooooong post), but the kids - OMG. There are some darlings, and I do care about every single one, but egad, they also drive me up a wall. Last year was far worse (there were days I counted it a good day if no one punched anyone, and all the furniture remained on the floor.... it was a wild group), but I miss my gentle brainiacs at LCA. And I miss teaching actual content! I used to teach a mix - History, English, Geography, Latin, Art, etc. I really miss that part, too.

[cmcmck]

I originally trained to teach English but soon realised that special needs was where I really wanted to be- I wanted to teach kids, not a subject. Obviously my own life experience had an influence on that!