4:30am

This morning at 4:30 am a huge gust of wind woke me up out of a dead sleep.  It felt like the wind gust went right through my house.  The gust gave me an eerie feeling.  I was hoping and praying that the power would go out at school.  Alas, I was not granted that reprieve. 
School was busy even though there was professional development this afternoon.  The professional development was extremely boring.  I am very open minded and I'm willing to listen to what presenters have to say.  I did not learn anything today.  At least I had a book with me to help kill time.  My school district treats teachers like we are not worth anything.  Granted, there are a lot of stupid teachers out there.  It's just frustrating when administration wants us to work miracles, but offer no help.  I feel like I'm constantly being dumped on by the school.  We need to do everything!  It's overwhelming and I just take it one day at a time.  It's all I can do.  I know I do an awesome job with my students.  They respect me and I respect them and I know I'm making an impact on their lives.  A student wrote an essay about Beowolf and Me!  LOL! 
She said I'm a hero because I have a loud voice and I'm always bugging kids to do what they are supposed ot be doing!  It made me laugh so hard.  This student and I are always arguing about something and I was surprised that she would write about me.  That's the thing about teaching though, you never know who you impact as a teacher.  It's just difficult being in a profession that is constantly degraded and not valued.  Education has a lot of problems, but I'm sick of teachers being the source of the blame.  Ok, I will get off my soapbox now!

My reading progress for Eat Pray Love is going well.  I'm on page seventy something.  I really like the book and I've been reading on my lunch breaks. 

I'm so ready for Thanksgiving break, but I'm pushing my students until the end. 
Yay for tomorrow being Thursday!