It's late, extremely early Christmas Eve morning and I have a million ideas swimming through my head. As I lay in bed making a mental note of my Christmas list, thoughts of the hectic weeks at work dance like sugar plums in my head. The natives (children in my class) were restless and they couldn't wait until Christmas break. I think I was more excited than they were, however I worked very hard to contain that excitement. I continued to think about work and I am grappling with the fact that I am getting old! All these happy thoughts lead us to a new Daley Laugh.
As I have mentioned before, I've been teaching since December 1998 and my first teaching gig was at an all-girl's Catholic high school. Well, lately I have been feeling ancient! One of my students from that all-girl high school was actually subbing in my building!!!!!!!!! I walked into the teacher's lounge and much to my surprise, I was greeted by one of my high school students!!!!!! When did she grow up? She looks exactly the same to me and it really does NOT seem that long ago that this girl (well...woman, now!) was sitting in my homeroom! I can't take it! I swear my face has not changed much since graduating from college (or is that just awesome genes?), so it can't be that long. I'm really feeling old!
As if being colleagues with one of my students wasn't bad enough, I'm running into girls I taught in high school at the bar!!!!!!!! I also have students asking me to hang out sometime! When did they reach the legal drinking age!?!?!?! Someone help me understand what is going on. I also need someone to reassure me that I am not getting older, I'm just getting better.
I'm glad I could share this senior moment with you. I hope you're getting a good laugh (at my expense, of course) out of this post.
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