Ok, today was the teacher workday and the ice cream social for Carmel Elementary School (and, apparently, every other elementary school in the district – I mean, everyone had a workday, but ice cream socials were also apparently rampant).
Tomorrow… the students come FOR REAL.
I am both excited and nervous. I kept asking kids tonight, “Are you excited about tomorrow?” and they would hang their heads and say quietly, “Well, excited and kinda nervous.” “ME TOO,” I would say.
I am not really ready. I have not scripted what I am going to say. I have told five different people eight different things that I am doing tomorrow for my classes, and I have written down none of them, so the odds are very good I’ll get halfway through the day and think, “Well, shoot.”
I was less prepared last year, but I don’t remember being this nervous. I must have been, though, because let’s face it, I can get nervous about going to the ice cream shop, if there are too many variables involved.
Tomorrow is class, class, class, class, class, prep.
Oh, I was so happy to see the kids today, though. And plenty of them liked my room. And the computer worked AND the projector – I mean, what are the odds?
Good luck to anyone else starting this week! May the odds be always in our favor.
