I'm so homesick. I miss my girl friends a TON lately...maybe I'll just do two years here and move back...maybe.
Teaching would be a lot more fruitful if I had a damn office. I was thinking about how fucked our educational system is here (surprise!), and there is really a trickle down effect involved in every aspect. Teachers are treated like shit by administration, and then they have little energy/time for lesson planning, therefore their students suffer, therefore the students notice and give little to no effort themselves. All propogated by someone, somewhere in the DOE who sits on a throne giving orders that prompt administration to care about dumb crap like how our classroom bulletin boards look rather than if a teacher may need a working printer or paper for the copy machine. This is how I imagine it, at least.
"What shall we worry about today, DOE king?"
"Well, our students fail to graduate at an alarming rate, and show little to no math and language skills...how about...I know! Make sure that all schools have a uniform online grading system! And a 'word wall' in every classroom! And if someone doesn't, make sure that you seriously ream their assistant principal so that he/she can spend more time concerned about stupid little crap rather than actual learning!"
"Well done sir! Right away!"
I'm also very busy discovering the random places to eat around Williamsburg. This just in: there are seriously so many white people in this neighborhood. This also just in: I hate the word 'foodie' SO MUCH.
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I think change of seasons can be hard, especially when you're away from "home." I always get the same feelings when winter changes to spring too, and I remember it being particularly vivid the three years I lived in DC. I think seasons changing remind you of the past and makes you feel nostalgic for childhood, the "good old days", etc.
ReplyDeleteBut just think: you're totally making new memories to be nostalgic about in future years. Such is life... we're never satisfied with the time we have right here, right now. We're always wishing for the future or the past.
so, SO true...every time it gets colder or hotter or the leaves fall or return, I am so sad. I guess things just go by so fast here that the memory of a time when I had even a minute for introspection seems so nice...
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