She came. She saw. She conquered...
A love letter to the last 6 years… This year marks a change in my life that I thought about many times but that I never actually saw becoming a reality. For half of my adult life, I have taught in Chicopee. My first year, I was a high school teacher (and a rather terrible one) and then came the biggest transformative moment in my young life: I was going to be forced to teach middle school (I bolded forced on purpose, since there was no option and I cried hysterically when I got the news). So I became a 6 th and 7 th grade middle school teacher at the tender age of 25. This was my quarter life crisis. This was a moment when I faltered and thought to myself, “Should I stay and try this out or do I run far, far away from this?” When I decided to be a teacher I would say, “I’m thinking high school, because I was even a nightmare in middle school and I was a half decent kid.” I had a tough year in my own personal life that first year and the thought of more change or going to