Show Yourselves Voyeurs!

I had a little surprise lately - some of my former students from Leland are reading my blog. Ironically, it took the post about the dirty things I saw in Bangkok to bring them out of hiding. I knew some students were reading it, because I sent the link out to my old email list of students I promised to keep updated about my travels, but these were random students that I was pretty surprised to hear from. (Hello John and Berton, thanks for the comments!)

So now I'm wondering, how many more of you are there? Was a year (or three) in my class just not enough for you? Leave me some comments, please! I want to know who else is reading this.

Hearing from former students has triggered something in my brain too -- the fact that I really miss teaching right now. During my year in Korea, I missed my Leland classroom tremendously, because while the job in Korea was easy as pie, it was not nearly as fun or inspiring as being a social studies teacher. Never mind the fact that I was stressed beyond belief and constantly plagued by self-doubt about how I was doing; I realized looking back that those were some of the most satisfying years of work I have ever had. I really did love that job, and I miss it a lot now.

Today on the ferry I was daydreaming about being back in the classroom and thinking of all the things I would incorporate into my class if I could teach world cultures again. All the things I did wrong before, and all the ways I would make it better. And I was actually smiling because it made me so happy to imagine it. Of course in my daydreams I have all the time and energy in the world to make the class absolutely perfect.

It's funny that being on such a long vacation has actually made me miss work.