With the exception of the year I taught full time at Tyndale's Dept of Education (and that might not really even be an exception, since I still had a "class", technically speaking), this is the first time in my career that I have not spent the first day of school in, well, a SCHOOL! Or at the very least, in a Board office, logged onto a Board computer, thinking about and planning for a school!
Particularly curious is the fact that while I was supposed to have been enjoying a final day at the beach before heading back to Toronto (I'm still in PEI) to do some last minute packing and tying up of loose ends before heading off to Argentina for the year, I am instead holed up inside on a wet, cold, miserable Island day, working on LESSON PLANS, LOL!!!
Yep, just spent the last three hours mapping out my first week of "school" for Argentina, where I'll be primarily home schooling Alex and Simon.
It is a singular experience to have such a long stretch of uninterrupted time to plan in peace -- no announcements, no colleagues coming in to borrow stuff, no custodians chasing me out of the building... kind of nice, but a little strange, too.
Particularly curious is the fact that while I was supposed to have been enjoying a final day at the beach before heading back to Toronto (I'm still in PEI) to do some last minute packing and tying up of loose ends before heading off to Argentina for the year, I am instead holed up inside on a wet, cold, miserable Island day, working on LESSON PLANS, LOL!!!
Yep, just spent the last three hours mapping out my first week of "school" for Argentina, where I'll be primarily home schooling Alex and Simon.
It is a singular experience to have such a long stretch of uninterrupted time to plan in peace -- no announcements, no colleagues coming in to borrow stuff, no custodians chasing me out of the building... kind of nice, but a little strange, too.
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