I am not a loser

YEAH! I got a new job! I will be teaching 4th grade at a school only 20 minutes from where we just bought a house. That will be so much better than if I would have had to drive almost an hour! So, Bob and I are both going to be teaching 4th grade starting in August, and our schools are only 20 minutes away.

It is really going to be a huge change, but I think I will enjoy it. This past year I taught 7th and 8th grade Language Arts. At my new job I will teach all of the subjects (Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies) to 4th graders. So, I will have the same students all day long, which will be interesting. I think it will be quite a challenge to make such a drastic change, but the location will be so much better. And, I think 4th graders will be nicer because they are still cute and sweet (at least some of them, I think).

So, I am really excited to change jobs, but it will be kind of sad too. I have to resign from my old job, which means I'll never see my old students again. I think that is going to be the hardest part, because if I stayed, I was going to be teaching 7th and 9th grade next year, so I would have had some of my same students that I had last year. I'm really going to miss them, because they are great kids! That will probably be the hardest part about teaching for me. Even when I keep a job, I'll still always be saying goodbye to students that I've really grown to enjoy. Anyway, I need to figure out a way to tell my principal. He knew I was looking for a new job, but I still think it will be hard for me to know how to tell him that I've found one.

In the meantime, I have a lot to prepare for! We will be moving into our house within 3-4 weeks, I need to clean out my old classroom, I need to plan for my new job, and I actually need to take 2 social studies classes (through correspondence) to be fully qualified for my new job. Who knew that July would be such an exciting month?