A Healthy Start
I'm finishing up my fifth year teaching wondering how I e.v.e.r. made it this far. Flashback : I remember thinking my student teaching experience would never come. It came. While student teaching, I remember the fear of never getting a job offer. It came. I remember the excitement - the obsessive preparation that continued all summer long - for that first year of teaching. Then, I remember the absolute burnt.out . feeling mid-November, the worry of, " how will I ever make it? ". I remember finishing that year like I'd just completed the worlds longest roller coaster ride. The high of recovering from that final plummet. The exhilaration of survival. And finally, the can't.wait desire for the next one. I remember how much of a lunatic my husband thought I was that first year. How many times he questioned, " why would anyone ever choose this career? ". Then, I remember his astonishment when I said I wanted to do it again. I had to help h...