Thread:HuskerJules/@comment-30339728-20180718133349/@comment-30339728-20180725125037

Seeing your note is a nice way to start today.... Good to read all your news and best of luck on the interview.

The answers to your questions. I am good, feeling incredibly lazy and not ready for school to start. While I will be teaching one of my favorite subjects - English Language Arts (ie reading comprehension), I am not looking forward to yet again changing direction. Luckily, some of 7th I have already done once and some of it is like 5th grade in NC that eases things up a bit. I've not done 8th but  I plan to use some things I already have for teaching grammar/editing and vocabulary development (Greek/Latin roots) for both my 7th and 8th graders. Next year, I will create a second part for those who would be my 8th graders (this years 7th). Science (7th and 8th) will be a repeat of last year with minor changes in content made by the state. Hopefully, I will have the time to do a bit of studying and take the Science Teaching Praxis test I need to be "legally" qualified/licensed to teach that subject. I am SUPPOSED to also take grad school classes to get a Masters to be licensed to teach gifted, but I really don't want to do that. Honestly I don't think I have it in me - at 59 and not knowing how much longer I will work.

Summer vacation this year was two weeks in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Between the magnificance of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat, the sunrise walking of Buddist monks to collect offerings of rice/good merit, seeing little kids exploited by parents - (a 5 or 6 year old girl with an anaconda hawking herself for pictures for $5 and being yelled at by her mom), extreme poverty of people living in floating villages, natural beauty of Halong Bay and limestone formations/caves, riding/feeding/washing an elephant, and obvious governmental corruption - it was eye opening, heart wrenching, chaotic, omg inspiring and more.

Daughter teaching/dancing a bit, but looking for change and use of her education for a career change.

Don't be too proud of SS skills. Honestly, most of it is the daily zapping versus the playing. I am working on pink frames and gathering lions. So far I've done fairly well and have earned a bit over 1300 on my own. Unfortunately, I am affected by the current Frozen Wish List glitch and while I can gift/visit/play the new room appears locked to my friends and my progress isn't posting. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.

Till next time....have fun and be happy