I am a teacher. I get summers off....Not!!! I started planning for next year as soon as last year was over. I have two workshops to attend and a new curriculum to write. And I do want to spend quality time with my own family.
The first workshop has come and gone. It was a three day event on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I spent two nights away from my family...right in the middle of Vacation Bible School. This is normally a time for my co-workers and I to socialize away from school. Normally I enjoy the sitting around the "dinner table" and shooting the breeze. This year was a little different. A vast majority of the teachers attending were several years younger. Most enjoy the bar area. And clicks were formed. And I had a new book (the third in a series) that I was DYING to read. And I had a room to myself.
I am weird. I go to conferences to actually get new ideas...to improve my teaching. I don't go to let my hair down. I don't enjoy drinking. I don't enjoy being in that scene. I don't get why some think that conference means: oh, I can do things here that I can't or won't at home. I resent being made to feel that I have to be in that situation to socialize with my co-workers.
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