The First Day

Me feet have blisters.

I can barely walk.

I'm dehydrated.

My mind is spinning.

I'm overwhelmed.

I'm beyond exhausted.

But, I survived my first day of teaching.

It definitely didn't go as I planned, and I bungled various parts. Though, most of them were because no one had told me about the specific way to do it. I now realize how I fully despise teaching routines and procedures. Give me content any day of the week. Every part of the day just flew by. No part went completely as planned. I wasn't always the most positive in my classroom management style; I focused on the negative more.

The worst part was that I didn't feel confident; I didn't feel like I had done my best. I can't dwell on that because tomorrow I'm going to walk in to my classroom with one more day of experience. There's much I could have done differently and probably better. That's the way teaching works, the majority of the learning comes from experience.

However, I survived my first day of teaching, and I never have to have a first, first day of teaching again.