Same Situation, New Concerns

Classes start tomorrow!

This phrase has always given me anxiety, a feeling that another semester's worth of work and reading was about to start. Not that I wasn't excited to start a new term- new things to learn, new ideas to pursue, friendships renewed- but deadlines never excited me, and knowing that all the great things came with a price caused me pause.

This year, I get to be in a different spot- supporting our teachers get underway teaching the kids in the library. We are running kids and adult English, kids art, and women's exercise classes out of the library starting tomorrow. I do not have the usual jitters- I won't have test, or papers, or have to figureout how to weave me pervious experience into something a professor will find academically worthy; instead, I've traded those doubts with others, namely, will we have people there at all?

There are always trade-offs, and going from a student to the "profe" as we're called, is one I am eagerly anticipating. Sure the doubts about the success of the endevour are there, but this time they are different. I am sure I don't know half of the things that should be worrying me, but I'm content in a break from the predictable cycle that school had become. The unknown is exciting; let's get started!