The one thing that will be different, from my perspective is, I will be retired. I've been teaching the hormonally schizophrenic (otherwise known as middle school students) for 34 years. I started out teaching in Buena Park, California. I taught there for one year, then took a teaching position at Cucamonga Junior High School, now known as Cucamonga Middle School.
I'm not quite ready to step down yet, but I can see that opening at the end of the tunnel, and it's no longer a train barreling down the track, but an open window on a new world. I know many people who have no desire to retire for the simple reason they feel they'd be bored. Not me.
As I noted in another post, there's a lot of things I want to do. One of them is to experience different places in the fall. Having grown up in Southern California, we don't really have fall. Leave turn colors all through our winter as it gets colder. I want to see an actual fall sometime. I haven't been able to do that, because I'm always working in the fall. I guess my first trip when I retire will be to New Hampshire. Who knows? It could happen.
