I was looking forward to the end of today, and now that time is here. It feels good to be done with my first parent meeting at Superkids. I hate how nervous they make me feel! 7 years of teaching and parents still manage to put me in a tizy. Fortunately, this year, I managed to control "pre-meeting" anxiety with a trip to Hoi An, which occupied my mind and my Sunday. Sunday turned into Monday, which came with a phone call from my friend Carol. She had arranged for an impromptu lunch made especially by her, in honor of our friend Ashleigh, who is moving back to the states on Wednesday. Spicy lemongrass chicken, along with banana flower and mint shrimp, green leafy vegetables with a name I can't say, and loads of rice were served and I got to watch and learn from the whole process. Hopefully, I'll be able to duplicate it and serve it to my babes. The meal filled all the spaces in my head that were full of scary, bad parent meeting thoughts. Thank You Carol!
I have a tendency to get ridiculously worked up sometimes and forget to trust my own confidence. Hello Angie?!$ You're money baby, money baby and you don't even know it :) If I had known it, I would have known that all of my worries were just a big waste of time.. but..... because I didn't "know it" I wasted at least an hour of time that could have been spent on painting the rat on my wall that I've been talking about for the last week, but not doing anything about.
So instead of painting, I got to school two and a half hours early (surprise surprise), ran thru "my lines"(over and over), added a few minor decorative touches to my room (totally unnecessary), and got ready for my "teachers day" debut. It wasn't until my students walked began walking into the class, excited and all aflutter to show off to their parents, that I realized I wasn't the star of this show. They were. Their lively and perceptive personalities shined, and the room lit up with smiles. I couldn't have been more proud of my beautiful babies:)
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