I Survived Institute 2010

It’s true, I survived. I survived and am still standing! After 5 long weeks of 20 hour days, a gazillion lesson plans, and 3rd graders who challenged me (in a good way!) every day, I made it to the other side. While I won’t miss the tiny showers, dorm food and earwigs that kept me company at night, I’m definitely going to miss the people. There really were amazing people I was able to meet and work with and I am so fortunate to have that opportunity.

I’m also going to miss our 3rd graders like crazy. They helped make this an incredible experience and I hope that I was able to teach them at least half of what they taught me. I’m also happy to the the girl I made cry on the first day that absolutely hated me, ended up completely turning around and not only started earning the best grades in the class, but also gave me a hug on the last day and told me she didn’t want us to leave.

Now I get a couple weeks to try and organize my life before I’m back at work at my new school with a new group. I’ll be getting settled in Detroit starting Wednesday and it’ll be nice to finally be able to call someplace home again.

So now that I’m done, and starting life again, it means I finally can start reconnecting with people. To say I’ve been busy is an understatement and while I wish I could have explained everything that was going on with my days, it just seemed impossible to talk, let alone update anyone. Thank you all for the support over the past couple of months. I promise I’ll start returning emails and calls now

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