Monday begins a new semester. New classes and new students. This term should be interesting as I will have students in grade 9, 10, 11, and 12. All these in 3 periods. I am teaching 2 Business courses and an Engligh class. I am looking forward to teaching my favorite play, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. There is so much fun in that play - cross dressing, mistaken identities, a love story, drunken revelry, mischief and mockery.

The last semester is marked and put away and done. Time to turn a new page and begin anew. The next 5 months bring lots of excitement, and I know they will be very busy. And then, summer! (Hey, teachers are allowed to count down too!) Between here and summer is family day holiday, my birthday, march break, easter long weekend, may long weekend, and then the craziness of prom and the last days of school, spent in a school with a bad ventilation system and air conditioning that barely works and hot computer labs sweltering at 30+ degrees Celsius.
But then summer awaits!

Cheers to the new semester!