Today is the fourth of July, but I don't feel like I'm on any sort of summer break! My district ended school two weeks ago, on June 18, but I immediately started teaching a county-sponsored band camp for rising 5th - 9th grade students. I was (misleadingly) informed that this camp would be very laid back, but I don't know what in the world is laid back about teaching hundreds of pre-teen kids with noise makers in their hands for five straight hours a day with no break! It's been fun nonetheless, and is getting me pumped about teaching middle school in the fall.
But, it is JULY and I haven't had a break! I started to come down with some sort of virus-cold two days ago and am not feeling 100%, so I'm trying to take it easy on this 3-day weekend. Pat's dad and stepmom are in town and we had a lovely dinner with them last night before they ventured into the city to enjoy a weekend away from kids (there are 3 little ones back in Tennessee with grandparents).
We keep on imagining fun vacation ideas. We're not able to take a real vacation for at least a year, as we're hard-core saving for a house, but it doesn't keep me from daydreaming about Hawaii, Switzerland, the west coast, Germany... Some day I will take an entire summer off - no school, no work, just vacation, reading, and relaxing. I don't see that happening anytime soon, but maybe it will. Until then, I'll just keep daydreaming :)
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