Happy birthday to my Blog

1 year ago over Spring Break I decided to restart my blog. I know that I have significantly slowed my posts since I began student teaching (and ended it relatively successfully) and I really do miss putting things on here whenever I can get myself to sign in and type something.

My Spring Break is coming to a close. It's gone by fast with the 'help' of Sims 3. My characters are at the top level in their respective fields (Symphonic music and Athletics) and I am pleased with their overall progress in life. If only things were so easy. If I only had to worry about eating (and not catching the house on fire while cooking), going to the bathroom, gaining skills by watching TV, occasionally talking to someone else, and going to work on time then I'm sure that things would be much better. But since I don't live in the Sim world, I don't get that simplified version of life. Which brings me to what else I did over Spring Break.

I applied for a job at King William High School.

Had you asked me when I first started education school if I would ever return to my home county, I would have replied with a definite "never." But as job desperation creeps in and graduation races towards me, King William started to look like an ever more viable option. When I got home and read in the local paper that one of the history teachers was leaving to get a coaching job in Pennsylvania, I decided that there was an opportunity to get into the system and try for a job. Luckily for me I know the head of Human Resources (she's my old principal), the head of the history department (she's my old APUSH and APGov teacher), and countless other employees, so I think I may have an 'in' with them. Not to mention they could use me as a poster child of a success story for their school system. I'm actually very excited about this prospect. After student teaching I realized that I actually could teach and that I was, you know, relatively good at it. I just hope that things work out. It would be nice to have a job lined up before graduation.

So, once again, here's to new beginnings, but also to the return of things once known. If things have lined up so that I get a job in King William and don't have to pay housing for a year or two then, hey, I'm fine with that. At least for a little while.