Today was the last day of school for me and my students.  There were many tears on their part, but as a teacher I know I’m coming back and need to get ready for the next ones to come along.  I will miss those leaving very much and I hope they keep in touch, but my job is to keep going.  But my thoughts immediately on my drive home were… “Wow! What do I get to learn now?!?”  Not that I stop learning during the year, but this will be on my time and what I want to improve upon for me.  I started wondering what other people do to improve themselves with their free time?  I realized that not everyone takes advantage of self-improvement time.  Many turn to TV, video games, gossip, drinking, partying, etc.  Everything that fills time, but doesn’t encourage growth.  I guess I’m just an EDUCATION JUNKY!  Here are some goals for the summer (you can check them out and keep me accountable!)…

1-Get my golf score average between 80-83.  2- Use my perfect pitch CDs and teach myself Perfect Pitch.  3-Write new songs  4-Train my puppy to be a good girl (and a few tricks!) 5-Run/workout and lose 15 pounds.  6- Read some good books to make my teaching better than the past year!