Yesterday, I turned in my key and drove away from school with all my stuff.  It’s sad.  I did get to meet the teacher, and he’s pretty awesome.  The kids are going to like him a lot.  Strange, he looks like a thinner version of me; same age and same salt-and-pepper gotee.  The two of us will spend one transition day together in January and then I’ll be an on-call sub again… unless I get another long-term assignment.  For now though, it’s going to be all about the studying as I prepare for my English CSET exam.

After school, I had a Christmas lunch with the middle school teachers.  They haven’t seen me since I began my long-term assignment, so they were asking me all about it.  I had had an opportunity to see the middle school kids earlier in the day, since they were having a rally at the High School gym, not far from my classroom.  So many of the kids that I had taught last year and a little bit this year have grown so much!  One of my master teachers from last year has lost a lot of weight!  After lunch, my wife and I went home, only to prepare for the next party for our lifegroup.  That party was fun and loud: good food, good conversations, lots of wine and scotch.

Jeffrey has now ended his third week of training, which I understand is a prelude to the week four events: obstacle course and gas chamber.  One sounds fun, the other sounds annoying: really, why subject people to teargas?