I got an email the other day to update my contact details or else I risk losing my domain. So I logged in and felt some nostalgia looking through my posts from my 2015 semester away. The strange thing was, I had seen a friend who also studied abroad at DIS Copenhagen during a different semester the day before this nice reminder email. And, my parents recently traveled to Stockholm making me feel all the feels for Scandinavia.

As I write this now, I’m back in school, teaching third grade. The Sunday scaries last night were real. It’s always a surprise how easy it is to fall right back into the routine, even after two weeks of winter break vacation. My class started their day as usual, dropping their backpacks in their cubbies and settling back into school. Before we departed for science class, I gave each student a post-it note and asked them to write down a word or sentence that described how they felt in that first moment back in the homeroom. Some responses were: good, okay, sleepy, cold, jetlagged, sad and good at the same time, happy and new.

Consider their teacher to be on the same page — here’s to 2020 and all the excitement I’m sure it will bring.

And for those who were wondering, my contact details remain the same.

S