Here we go!

Back to school!

... life is going to get busy again. Already has, in fact.

The week before school reminds me of Work Week for Rush in my college sorority. We would spend so much time anticipating the next group of younger girls. The more I think about it, the more associations I make with work week and the week before school starts. Although I hated work week, I like the week before school starts.

Work week in the sorority -- Week before school starts
1. Study the incoming girls -- Study the incoming students
2. Decorate the sorority house -- Decorate your classroom
3. Get to know your fellow sorority sisters and rekindle friendships after the summer -- catch up with teacher friends about their summers
4. Sit in many group meetings that seem incredibly pointless at the time -- sit in endless hours of trainings and meetings that seem pointless at the time but ultimately increase your "teacher efficacy" (new phrase we got on Tuesday)
5. Trapped in the house all day with no allowed contact with boys -- too exhausted to do anything social after trainings/working in your classroom.
6. Coke dates -- happy hours
7. One word, icebreakers (I still don't enjoy those)
8. Sing sorority songs -- sing school songs and songs for learning. "A for Apple, A - A - A..."
9. Attend the kick-off for all sororities -- Attend convocation (there is a difference here; kick-off was at night, convocation was at the butt-crack of dawn)
10. Excitement for Rush to start (and for me, excited for it to end) -- Excitement to see my kiddos again :)