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Whenever I come to visit Linh, it feels as though I realign myself with reality. There aren't many opportunities for me to speak to people my age, during the frenzy of the school year. So I lack a sense of awareness and scope, and more times than I would have liked to, I have been asked, "Are you happy?"

And I don't really know.

The teaching field is such that competency isn't really achieved until the third or fourth year. It might come sooner or later, but that has been the advice from some of the more veteran teachers. And I want to achieve competency, more than that...excellence, but I know that it takes time. It's easy to answer on the fourth day of working 10-12 hours on site...NO! I'm not happy! I'm stressed, burned-out, people are giving me grief, and despite the time and effort I spend, the work continues to pile and pile ... and is this really how it is? Now that I have a moment to breathe, the question inevitably returns.

...OK!! Enough deep thoughts for the hour. I will write about silly antics and accomplishments later, after the drive home.