It's been busy

Come November, and I'm working much, much more, not less. There seems to be no end in sight to this maddness of working until 6 or 7 pm on the average evening and still bringing home work on the weekend. I seriously find myself wishing most nights that I could just put on my pajamas and stay at school over night. Not because I would rather be at school than at home, but the thought of bundling up in winter gear just to go out into the dark to have a thirty to fifty minute walking and trolley bussing commute home (complete with elbowing, pushing and shoving) only to eat dinner, fall asleep and get up at 5:30am to exercise and come right back to school again in the morning is exhausting. Next week is accreditation week, meaning a team of ten people will be spending the week at our school, coming in to observe at our classrooms any time, free to ask me or my students questions about anything at any time. Just a bit stressful. Ok, at least that is followed by the a four day weekend thanks to Latvia's 90th birthday! I'd like to say that after that things will calm down, but by then we are gearing up for the madness that is the winter festival. So I'm already counting down the days until December 19th, the first day of our winter vacation. It cannot come quickly enough.

Luckily, the good news is that my students are still stellar! I have started aerobics on Thursday nights at school, which happily gives me more energy that evening to do a bit of homework when I get home. (I just started an online class about teaching children with dyslexia to help out one of my students this year.) Also, we have a field trip planned to Lacu Maiznica to see how bread is made and make our own cookies as well. For those of you who have been there, or had the chance to eat their bread, cookies or grauzdini, you know what a treat this is to look forward to!

So sorry for not having more exciting things to write about lately, but the extent of my existance is truly eat, sleep, school. It's a good thing I like what I do.

Oh, and knitting season has started again, so during the five minutes I can keep my eyes open at night, some lovely Xmas presents are being created. :)