Back to School

I have completed my first three days in the classroom teaching 8th grade US History for this, my fourth year, and I am already a day behind (I took too long explaining my rules). New principal and new textbook this year, so you'd think my stress level would be up. Quite the contrary; I am more relaxed than I've ever been at this point in the year (obviously, subject to change at a moment's notice).

A couple of good signs; I slept like a baby the night before school started. That's a definite first; my first year, I was up at 4am and never got back to sleep. I am more confident in class. I am almost to the point where I enjoy the job and the students. Not quite yet--but as I said late last year, I continue to see light at the end of this particular tunnel.