TGIF my friends! Even though I had a short week this week, I need my weekend quick.
Oh. I should probably tell you why I had short week. 
Last Thursday (a week from yesterday), I drove over to Santa Clara to stay the night and fly out of Oakland Friday morning. Where did I fly to? To Boise! To help Jenn celebrate her 30th birthday of course. (Keep watching her blog for pictures because I’m a ding dong and didn’t take very many.) Jenn and I haven’t seen each other in 2 years but it was like we’d just had lunch yesterday. We email and text every day – seeing each other while having those conversations was like the icing on a cake – a birthday cake! We ate and drank and ate some more all weekend until leaving on Tuesday afternoon. I was home early Wednesday afternoon giving me a full week of vacation time. Happy 30th, Jenn! It was a great time with great friends… I didn’t want it to end.
And now my Friday is here and while I’m back in the heat of the valley while Jenn is back in Boise, I’m looking forward to a hard workout at the gym (punishment), dipping myself into my family’s saltwater pool while sipping a deliciously cool glass of crisp wine with my friend, B, this afternoon. Vacations have to end but the fun doesn’t have to stop!
Thought you were teaching summer school? How’d you manage to get away for all that time? I agree, one really should take time to unwind and recharge, and that’s why I do NOT teach summer school.
I am teaching summer school. I had the trip already planned prior to being notified about teaching summer school. They told us so late in the year and I had to buy plane tickets. It all worked out. But I agree. I don’t think I’ll be teaching summer school next year.
Smart girl! Of course, you could teach an original credit course, where you get a different type of kid than the ones doing make up work.
And, if you are someone who desperately needs money, then it’s a way to do it. A teacher on our campus does it so she can pay private school tuition for her two boys. I understand that situation.
Our summers are now so short that if you do summer school, you only get two week’s vacation.