My mom has spent the last couple of nights reading over all of her student's science fair project ideas. I have an interesting topic that I think would win grand prize: is there a correlation between how hard you worked at school to how hard you will work out at the gym.


My hypothesis: If a teacher has a hard day at school, then there will be an increase in the amount of calories she will burn when you keep food and time constant.


I might not win grand prize (unless there are only teachers for judges), but I think that I would find a lot of teachers who agree with me. I had one of those hard days, not awful, just hard. As I began to run on the treadmill, I realized I had a lot more stress energy to burn than normal. For the first time in a long time I ran for 9 minutes. When you are me, thats a huge accomplishment. I normally do not make it over 4! (I think that Glee helped me towards my goal!)


But when I was done, how my mood improved! That gives me an idea. I could do a second study on how exercising can improve the mood of teachers :)


My principal gave all the new teachers a word of advice, or insight, at new teacher in service: Take care of yourself outside of work. That advice did not make much sense till today. Today I realized that the stress of life itself can simply be removed by one quick prayer and a good, hard workout. Thank you Lord for treadmills!  

What am I getting myself into....

One minute I am overwhelmed enough to cry and the next, happy enough to laugh. This is the joy and curse of being a teacher. 

I am a first year middle school social studies teacher. Life does not get any more amusing than that, until you add in the twist. I teach at the middle school I attended, as well as the middle school that my mom works at. Yes, my mom and I teach in the same building, we are on the same team, we carpool to work, and yes, dare I say, we live together.  

My average day consists of waking up, getting ready, going to school, being at school, staying late, coming home, going to the gym, talking to my boyfriend on the phone, watching television with my parents, going to bed, and repeating the next day. It does not look to exciting when you put it in black and white; however, after spending one hour in the "being at school" section of my day, you will come to realize that life is the total opposite of boring, it is planned lessons that lead to unplanned/unpredictable amusing life lessons. 

Apart from teaching, one of my goals in life is to be published. I have tried numerous times to begin writing my memoir about losing weight, or my memoir of my relationships, or my memoir about college, but I realized very quickly, my life is not interesting enough to write an entire memoir, let alone get to page 3. However, I have found the loop hole. I can write on my blog, pretend people read it, and I am published. One dream down, check! 

As I go throughout my first months of teaching, I hope that my funny, sad, embarrassing, and first moments in the school can bring joy to those reading.