me!
I just got the news that I have been selected for new teacher of the year. I couldn't be happier!
So yes, readers of my not so happy blog, the following is a VERY HAPPY POST.
Two years ago I was dying. Not literally, but emotionally. I was in despair and everything was going wrong. I hated my freaking job and I couldn't think of the positive things in my life because I was so engulfed in the negative aspects of it. Love: Blah. Work: Blah. Mission in life: Blah. Spirituality: Blah.
Then my best friend and sister told me : be a teacher... it's the most rewarding job ever.
I dumped the people I hated, took a course, and started as an assistant at this school I'm in right now. I loved waking up in the morning... I loved working with this super cool exotic teacher... I loved the children... and I loved when I could tell I was making a difference in the life of some kids. I still love that those kids remember me and hug me every time they see me.
Then I was hired to teach. My own classroom, my own students, my own opportunity to make a change. Me making a change? Little did I know that I was the one that was going to be changed.
The other new teachers rock my world. They're always so happy and relaxed. Everything they touch turns to gold and I feel like half the time I'm digging for clams. It's all consuming and oh so tiring. There is no better reward than watching a student READ for the first time, or ADD and SUBTRACT all on their own, or recognize the difference between them two. But I gotta say, getting a reward for rocking kinda rocks all on its own.
I love my life. I love it all.
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