A Day, August 16th

I sat in my car for twenty minutes before heading into school. I still had no key for the elevator and the thought of carrying the weight of responsibility as well as my empty lunch box up the stairs overwhelmed me. I always bring the lunch box so people think I have something to look forward to. Sometimes I have crackers.

U.S. History Honors learned how I expect vocabulary to be done. Then I assigned a writing exercise based on my welcome letter. Then a quiz on class expectations. I did an overview of the course, the syllabus, the supplies and grading scale. I also explained how I incorporate my website into the class. First and second periods got schedules and first day work. Then I accidentally dismissed second period early because I failed to learn the homeroom schedule had changed. For this I was ashamed.

AICE Global Perspectives and Research AS Level was welcomed to class. I made some of you very sad and then I taught about plagiarism. I went over my syllabus, the course requirements and explained the basics of Model United Nations. At lunch I sat at my desk and drank water and talked to a former student about ice cream. This only made me hungrier. After lunch we continued the above and dismissed, some of us knowing we would never return. But I will be back. Again and again into a future in which I see no hope of retirement.