A New Vocation

A few weeks ago, I was offered a teaching position as a 7th grade Language Arts teacher. I am so thrilled, scared, grateful, amazed to be given this opportunity. For pretty much all of my life, I've wanted to be a teacher. There were times where I thought I might want to do something different, but I always came back to the prospect of teaching. I am feeling a lot of emotions pertaining to the fact that I am FINALLY, really, really, going to be a teacher. I am nervous because I have more experience designing units for, and interacting with, high schoolers-I completed my student teaching at a nearby high school. I am about to cross unknown terrain, and being in the leadership position of a teacher, and everything that it entails, is honestly daunting. But wow, it feels great. I have to embrace the unknown. How awesome to be given the opportunity to guide kids in their education, and to hopefully ignite a genuine love for learning.
A professor of mine said it best: "Teaching is not a job. It is a lifestyle."
I say that for the best of them, it's a calling. I hope that is what I will find it to be for me.