contemplating

If any of you from Face Book think this is the amusing post. . .well, you are dead wrong.  Just scroll on down until you reach yesterday's posting. 

This post is DEAD SERIOUS and don't let anyone tell you it isn't.  So there!

Now that I've been teaching for weeks in my very last year(47, to be exact)), I have been contemplating what my life would be like when I retire from teaching. 

While, in the meantime, I am having the time of my life. 

 No bars hold. Just what does that mean?  Bars?  What  Huh?

Anyway, my fourth graders have written about a "special person."  And, by the way, they're doing a fantastic job simply because they're using two anecdotes.

ANECDOTES?  wHAT'S THAT?

Exactly.  I taught for thirty-something years before I knew what an anecdote was.

An anecdote is a personal story.

  Once I realized what an anecdote was, I was able to tell the students.  Duh!

So anyway, I am really, really, REALLY getting into the anecdotes this year.  Hey, I have nothing to lose.  It's my last year.  So I'm being very dramatic.

When a child writes,  My mom shouted, "I love you,";  then I read the paper out loud and I yell at the top of my lungs, "I LOVE YOU!"

Of course, the children cringe and I say,  "Was shouted the correct word?"

And they agree, it wasn't.

But, back to contemplation.

What will I do if I can't teach writing?

My sister says I should "sell myself".  You know, write a resume and visit schools in Kentucky.

And I say,  "Nah,  nobody wants an old fat lady teaching writing."

And then I wonder if I did it, if I would be the same as a prostitute... you know selling myself.

Comments

[Tiffany]

If so, that makes the rest of us in the service industry prostitutes. Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, Customer Service Reps. And for the record, You Have SKILLS! (to be shouted)

[Nancy]

I think that's "no holds barred". It means anything goes (especially in contact sports, or life, or whatever)!