As summer school rages on…well maybe not rages, rather it kind of drags and gets caught on something…the summer is flying by. It’s hard to believe that I’m only going to have six weeks before things start moving forward with the next year. I promise, next year I will not be teaching summer school or doing any other kind of work. I’m going to work on sleeping in late, staying up late, and going to great places on vacation.

On the plus side of teaching, I’m able to really connect with a couple that teaches at the school. She’s teaching the algebra half of last year’s screw up and he’s the technology teacher. Both of them are fantastic and she actually lived in Norfolk for a few years when she was in the Navy. So it’s really nice to be able to hit it off with other teachers from the high school side.

I am very much looking forward to teaching English 9. I don’t really read for pleasure and I didn’t really read what I was supposed to when I was in high school. I feel like I’m getting to relive my freshman honors English class. It’s kind of cool actually. For summer, they have to read the Red Badge of Courage. I’m actually looking forward to it. Who knew that reading old books like that would be something that I actually look forward to.