The FINAL Week

This past Friday I completed my teaching experience and it was bittersweet at most. The kids know I am going to be around so it wasn't a tearful farewell. A number of my students made "going away" cards for me and one student in particular wrote me a metaphor for life. She compared it with a roller coaster and it was about a page long and filled with spelling errors. But I loved it and I will cherish it. I didn't know I had such an impact on these students' lives. Some of them more than others, but in the end, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

There is no place I would rather be than in my pod teaching those squirmy, awkward seventh graders. So there is my final week to take care of and I am ready for it to be over, but I don't want it to end either. I think that I need my own classroom and my own job. I am excited to go out into the world and establish myself in the world of English and Education. Raise you wine glass with me and cheers to this, my final week!