Up until yesterday, I think I completely forgot I had this blog for the past month or so. I had no idea that this 4th quarter would be so crazy! I accepted the opportunity to be the assistant coach for the Hershey girl's tennis team. I love every minute of it when I'm there, but it has certainly zapped all of my time. We have to travel to North Platte to practice because Hershey does not have their own courts. SO I usually don't walk in my door until 7-7:30 pm. Then of course we have meets during the week so I have to get sub plans ready and then Saturdays are usually "all day invites" which basically leaves Sundays for grading/planning. I'm bummed that I haven't gotten to hang out with some friends in a while, but hopefully that will change soon. We have 3 meets left before state! Oh yeah, state---I'll miss the last 2 1/2 days of school for state, so that should be "fun" leaving sub plans for the end of the year...ha!

In addition to me being gone all the time, so are the rest of the kids. When there's a track meet it usually wipes out all the students except for about 5 kids in each class. Not much point in continuing lessons since I'd have to repeat them all. Between Track, golf, and tennis, it's a miracle when all of us are in class at the same time! For next year I will design 4th quarter completely differently...lots of projects and independent study type of things. Oh the many things I will do differently next year. (Yes I signed my contract for the next year :)).

It was quite a predicament to decide what to do this summer. The first summer where I'll still be getting a pay check from the school year. I finally decided to teach summer school in Lex only for the month of June. I probably could work July too, but I decided I need/want a break. Plus, having the summers off is one of the perks of being a teacher that I full-heartedly want to take advantage of!! Other than that, no real plans for the summer. Hopefully hang out with lots of friends and I'd like to start looking at programs to begin my master's degree (in what--I have absolutely no idea).

Unfortunately my apartment tidiness has fallen behind as much as this blog has. Between work clothes and practice clothes, my laundry pile is more of a blanket across my whole apartment haha. Today I plan to clean and grade and plan and get sub plans ready.

Hopefully it gets all done today, but if not, it will get done eventually.
Enjoy your Spring!! :)