June 10, 2021 Hello Teacher day 180
Today as I rise with the sunrise I realize this exceptional school year is about to come to a close. The plethora of emotions that I feel bubble to the surface of awareness during my early morning walk, but I am surprised that I am not overwhelmed with the flow of sadness or excitement or exhaustion that I normally feel as a school year comes to a close. Nothing was normal this year, not even my emotional response to it. Every once in a while I would fall into a routine of feeling a certain way on Monday mornings for example, or being excited the week before a school vacation, but I would catch myself and realize that the normal way of feeling no longer fits with what I’m actually going through, which is a year of teaching, mostly at home, during a global pandemic. This situation more than likely will not repeat itself for at least 100 years! Or maybe never again with the quick development of vaccines and scientists being able to mitigate such a catastrophe with the knowledge garnered from our unusual year.
Today my students and I or at least my eighth grade students and I will celebrate the end of their middle school years with a celebration of cultures! They are bringing in flags from their country, costumes, food of course, folkloric music will be played while we enjoy the last day of each other’s company. They will graduate, move onto high school, I will clean up and pack up my classroom, and summer…
