Well, the school year is up and running! Thank goodness too; last week was spent mostly in meetings, while I tried to get ready for the year and cope with my grandfather's faltering health*. I never thought it would be so hard to get my brain back into gear after three long months of mental inactivity; I'm pretty sure I had a headache every day last week and the first few days of this week.
Anyway, after two and a half grueling days of meeting with the full faculty, after helping a new crop of freshmen boarder girls get settled, the first day of school arrived. The funny thing about it was that I didn't teach! I happen to have Tuesdays off this year, so I got to witness all the first day hoopla but not participate, which was a bit anti-climactic. Yesterday, however, I had all three of my classes: Latin 1, Latin 3, and Greek 1. All three went smoothly, especially Greek, which I had been fretting about all summer. I think I have a good group of kids in each class, and am really excited to see how it plays out as the semester progresses.
Two anecdotes:
When one of my Latin 1 students from last year saw me, she ran up to me practically screaming my name and went babbling on about how she was really sad that I wasn't teaching her this year in Latin 2 and how she'd be coming to see me soon for help.
One of the girls who lives in my house, who is also one of my Latin 3 students, forgot quite a bit of stuff the first few days, and when her mom came by to drop some of it off, she came to my apartment. I wasn't home at the time, so she caught The Boyfriend instead, thinking that he was a member of the school staff. Tonight she came to drop off yet more stuff for this student and dropped off a huge basket of fresh veggies for us, fresh picked from her own garden. It was incredibly sweet.
ciao
* My grandfather died last Friday. It has been very hard, but thanks to the wonderful support system I have and the distraction of school, I've been doing ok.
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