Creepy Gnome

Well, I was reduced to tears for the first time in my teaching career today. Not in front of kids, but I had a little meltdown at lunchtime in the staff room. It's strange, I've had some bad classes, crazy students, rude students and students with horrible attitudes, and although they've been stressful and sometimes infuriating, they didn't come close to making me cry. Why? Because I always felt that I was doing the best possible job I could do being a teacher in those circumstances. Today, however, for the first time ever, due to a whole bunch of unfortunate things happening at once, I felt like I was doing a poor job, terrible even. In hindsight, it was probably one of those 'the straw that broke the camels back' moments of feeling overwhelmed and out of my depth. Completely expected in your first year of teaching they tell me :)

Honestly though, it really is all character building. We live, we make mistakes, we learn, and then we do it all over again.

On my way home I spotted this creepy little gnome in someones front garden.

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling