Cincy

I am in Cincinnati. I will be here for another full week. Why? I am attending the AP Reader's conference here. I will be grading about 100 essays a day for the next 6 days. I don't know if I have ever graded that many.

I do know that I have never spent this many days away from K. I miss her already and I have only been away one night. Eight nights is going to tough. Every morning I am waking up at 5:30 our time. I don't want t get use to the time, completely, because I want to be able to slide back into our home time zone easily.

I am meeting a lot of new people from through the country. One teacher I met today is a Navy wife who is currently stationed in Guam. It took her 24 hours to fly here. I thought it was neat that they brought someone from there here. It helps contribute to the diversity of the readers.

One thing that kinda stinks is that just as I finally get to a point where I am learning more about the exam I am being given a different course. In the fall I am going to begin teaching AP US History and regular US History. I am happy to be going back to a course that I really enjoy, but at the same time I am nervous about the differences in the tests. I will be doing a lot of studying over the summer, as time allows, and going to a training session to get some more information. I just want to be ready to teach the course in the best possible way.

I am grateful for the experience, but will be happy to be in the arms of my love again.