This IS My Life

Today I had a moment during first hour when I stopped what I was doing, took a look around, and thought, "huh. This really is my real life now, isn't it?" It was the second test for geometry today and the new car smell of the year has worn off already. Things are running like normal in Ms. Pint's classroom and I realized today just how weird that is.

First of all, it's weird because I'm starting to feel like an actual teacher and not like I'm student teaching still. I don't know when I'll get used to this feeling, but for right now it's pretty cool.

Second of all, it's weird because I'm teaching in Asia and that feels normal now too. During the first few weeks of school, I couldn't stop thinking about how weird it was that I was teaching in Taiwan; clearly I signed up to do this but it's one of those things that doesn't hit you until you get there. For the past week or so though, it's odd because I haven't been thinking about that at all. It hit me today that I have gotten used to this new norm in my life. Weird because it's totally opposite from the "normal" I used to know.

I can only imagine the culture shock I will experience when I go back and try to teach American students after this...