The New September

Um...i've been back from beach bummin' for quite some time. I'm back in teacher-mode, back in student-mode, just back to my new york life...


It's hot outside today...but it's on the brink of that crisp fall-feeling we all anticipate. I hope so anyway.
Remember that back-to-school feeling? That tingle in your stomach and you weren't quite hungry for breakfast because you were too excited or nervous or scared or all of the above? I do. It was comforting to know that new beginnings were set in stone every single September. As adults we have to make our own - and it's a thrilling feeling to get that excited feeling; that tingle in your stomach again...

My year begins now. There are so many new beginnings happening that are going to really shape me this season.

What's going on with me?

~ I started my second semester of grad classes this week.....
~ I finally went food shopping and stocked my empty fridge....
~ I tried to catch up on "reading for pleasure" before I have reading assignments for classes with little to no success...
~ I began setting up the classroom I will be assistant teaching in
~ I am overwhelmed with the responsibiliities that lie before me, but I'm hiding it tremendously well ;)

This Fall, I hope to gain:

~a stronger sense of time management

~comfort in a first grade classroom

~ A's in my classes

~ a better version of me (as always)

Hopefully I will be able to write more creatively here this fall. I am taking a class in Diversity, and we have to keep a journal to write in after each class. We can write anything we want to, even draw or paint. I'm hoping to share some of my responses on this here, blog.

~Alice