What a Great Day!

...and not only because it leads into the weekend! I left work today singing under my breath, and grinning a big grin. Just what a great day. My favorite part? The very end. A student came in after school - freshman, new transfer student. Big smile, great laugh, great personality. He came by to introduce himself a couple days ago as well. That takes guts - I would have never done that when I was 14, especially if I were new to a school. Would you?

So he just sat down and we just started chit chatting. He happened to see the SAT word magnets I had stuck on my desk drawers, and we spent the next 20 minutes with him picking off the magnets, reading the words he didn't know aloud, and me typing the words into Microsoft Word and checking the dictionary. Other times, I'd give him a sentence using the word so he could guess the meaning. It was just a great time and one of the best parts of my jobs: making a student feel like there's a safe place to go to in school, and making them feel cared-for, because they are. Caring about people is the best (and sometimes most difficult) part of my job.