I can’t deny that in some ways I have been dreading today. The return to a normal schedule after a long break is often difficult. After being able to wallow in bed for as long as I want and having no appointments to keep, it is now a bit trying to return to the “normal life” This is especially true when I realize that after a month we have another break. (This last half of the school year is going to zoom by . . .)

Yet I am excited, too. I have some new resources and I feel that I have a much more realistic approach to teaching now. I know what to expect out of myself and my students. But the most significant change is that I know my students. This in itself is the cause of some of my excitement. I look forward to seeing most of my students again. There are some that I don’t know well, and hence I am ambivalent. Yet many of my students–I am just anxious to see them again.