Living in the Daylight

I should be grading papers right now, but I’m procrastinating, and figured I’d update this since it’s been almost 6 months.

Busy doesn’t even begin to describe my life since returning to the States. Within 12 hours of landing, I had taken the test to get my teaching certificate in Florida, and started two classes for my gifted endorsement within a week. I also met up with a friend from high school, an amazing man who I’ve since been dating.

Between getting a charter school up and running in its first year, working with entirely new curriculum and a wonderful but challenging group of children, being on our third director, and driving back and forth between Ormond, Deltona, and Orlando, almost every moment of my days have been filled. I spend on average 12 hours a day at school, trying to plan, but mostly grading papers and getting caught up with what we’ve already done. I am taking another endorsement course that ends in December on Tuesday evenings, and I haven’t been very good about keeping up with that class because I feel like I have to complete my grading for my current school before I start doing my homework for the class where I’m a student. I’ve also been dealing with lots of random strange events, such as raccoons breaking into my house and jumping on my bed.

Despite being incredibly busy, Thad and I have managed to do quite a bit in the past few months, and I’m really looking forward to attending the Orlando Calling festival this weekend with him. We’re also planning on visiting our friends up in DC after Christmas, and doing a western Europe trip this summer (as well as Bulgaria).

So hopefully I’ll be able to find time at some point to go back and finish my trip to Greece, as well as write about the rest of what I saw in Turkey before I left, and before I go to DC. We shall see.