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School started yesterday at my old school, and I miss my students horribly. I don’t miss the school, the admin, or any of the other bullshit. But the kids MAKE the job.
Still, I look out of my window and this is what I see:
I’m happy and having fun. I have a job in a little shop I love on Bourbon, and I walk everywhere. ~i know i’ve lost some inches, if not pounds. due in part to the fact that there are 59 steps leading up to our apartment, which stays surprisingly cool & mosquito free, considering it’s new orleans in august. the people who built this house are absolute geniuses~
I don’t know if Taylor the Teacher will continue to exist or not. ~if anyone wants to buy it, make me an offer~
But I am starting new blogs as soon as Cox Communications sees fit to bless me with Internet. ~apparently installing cable in the french quarter is too much for them. third try has come & gone~ When they’re up and going, I’ll post links here for anyone that’s interested.
But I still wish I was seeing Nicole, Kaelie and Nick every day like I used to.
10 responses so far ↓
1 millar prescott // Aug 20, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hope you continue blogging. Keep us posted and let us know when the new one is up and running.
millar prescott’s last blog post..fuck it
2 sadcox // Aug 20, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Not all teachers work in schools.
Not all school teachers are educators.
Keep this blog.
sadcox’s last blog post..Great News Story–You Forgot Something
3 mandy // Aug 20, 2008 at 4:43 pm
please keep blogging!!
and I just started reading “the house on first street:my new orleans story” by julie reed and was wondering how you are doing!!
mandy’s last blog post..…..and another thing
4 Taylor // Aug 20, 2008 at 7:29 pm
There is no question that I will keep blogging. Simply that I don’t know that ttt will be the primary place. But sadcox has me questioning that too.
5 Pat // Aug 21, 2008 at 6:25 am
I think you have so much knowledge and wisdom that would benefit so many others no matter which blog you do! Glad you are enjoying your new life. This beginning of the school year was much harder on me than last year for some reason. I really missed it this year, so hubby took me to Niagara Falls to get me away. (I think he was afraid I would try to go back! LOL)
Pat’s last blog post..Carnival of Education 8/20/08
6 Linda // Aug 24, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I tried to comment last week here but your blog ate my comment. So here goes my second attempt.
Your blog is an archive of your perspective on many things not just teaching or the current(often sad) state of public education. I like the array of topics you have covered-it shows your depth as a thinker/blogger.Keep the rest of us informed on your next move-whether it is here or not. I am awful fond of hanging out with you around the doll house.Miss you.
Your Barbie Buddy
~Linda
PS Twitter still sucks.
7 rimone // Sep 29, 2008 at 9:52 pm
i know what you mean. i was a Special Ed. teacher but left back in 2001 when my BF was offered an IT gig in DE and asked me to come along w/him. i’d never been out of the country and living in, not visting, any place in Europe was my oldest and most cherished dream.
it didn’t hit until a month or two after we’d arrived but it’s stayed w/me; not only do i miss my students but i miss teaching in general (apart from the endless idiotic admin paperwork).
i couldn’t teach in DE cause i could barely speak the language. now we’re here in England and my credits don’t transfer over, so i volunteer instead (at schools and at PDSA, a charity for those who can’t afford to take their pets to vets).
BTW, i was totally amazed after i learnt that teachers are paid on the same level as other professionals in DE. and the respect that goes w/being a teacher there is the same as the respect that’s built in when one’s a doctor or lawyer.
rimone’s last blog post..Lower East Side Story: II
8 Kaelie // Oct 2, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Me and Nick walked by your classroom the other day and were so sad. We really miss you, Taylor!
It’s been a really crazy year.
Kaelie’s last blog post..Day In Hell
9 Taylor // Oct 2, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Do tell! What’s been going on? I’d love to hear it, as would others I’m sure.
10 HENNESSY GONZALEZ // Nov 18, 2008 at 11:38 am
MY NAME IS HENNESSY.I WANT TO BE A TEACHER LIKE YOU.
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