Today’s post is brought to you by my hard-working intern, Erica Graphman. Take it away, Erica!
Ahh spring break! The time away from school and work to refresh and prepare for the end of the year. Or not. While some of my friends are down in Tennessee and Florida are having fun, I am stuck (for lack of a better word) at home.
I always imagine having time to relax and spend time with my family when I picture the long month and a half of school leading up to spring. Don’t get me wrong—I have spent lots of time with my family this break. In fact, that’s part of the problem with spring break this year! I’ve been so busy I haven’t really had time to complete any of the MOUNDS of work I have due the first two days after spring break is over.
I went to an early screening of Divergent with my mom and brother because my mom won tickets (she’s insanely lucky at winning things like that) and I saw The Monument’s Men with my dad. Divergent was amazing, by the way! My little brother, who, might I add, never reads, came out of the movie saying he wants to read all three books.
I thought that with everyone out of the house during the day, I would have plenty of quiet time by myself to work on the essays and reading and journals that I really really have to catch up on and finish. Somehow I neglected to remember that being home by myself means that I have to make my own lunch. Everyone else seemed to remember that though, and I got invited to lunch every day of the week. This lead to being gone during the day, and not having much time to do work in the evenings.
I’m not sure how satisfied I am with the result of this spring break. I’ve spent a lot of time with my family and I’ve had a week of no work and no homework. As much as I’ve loved being home and not really having anything to do, I’m finding that I’m overly anxious to get back because I know how much homework I have to get done on Sunday. I find it odd saying I wish we did not have spring break and we just got out of school a week early. I think that might be illegal for students to say. Spring break has been great, but is it worth the extra stress the week classes start again will generate?
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I’m going to try not to be jealous that you already saw Divergent! Thanks for posting, Erica. I’m with you. I’d rather not have spring break and just keep plugging along with school, but I don’t think the teachers would make it without that break. Maybe college profs would, but those teaching children need that break for sure!
Oh yes! I don’t think many teachers could make it without the break. I know my cousin, who teaches second grade, was very relieved to finally have spring break this week, especially with all the time they’ve been having to make up for snow days!