7 more days...

...until my first year as a teacher is finished. i can't believe it. mostly i can't believe that this hasn't broken me...yet at least. there are still 7 days left to accomplish that task. there are about 1300 other things i should be working on but in this moment, i'd like to just sit and think. in 7 more days, these will not be MY students anymore. i'll be getting a new group and i'll be starting all over again. it's weird because i still have so much to teach them. they don't know all the states of the United States. they still have trouble spelling words like though and thought. they fight in the restroom and at recess and a myriad of other places. it's weird that i'm going to be giving them up. next year i'll see them in the hallway and they'll smile but they won't run up to me with a hug.

maybe i'm just getting old but time really does seem to fly by faster these days.