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singularity6
Pre-Black Belt
Joined: 26 Jun 2017
Posts: 958
Location: Michigan
Styles: Jidokwan Taekwondo and Hapkido, Yoshokai Aikido, ZNIR Iaido, Kendo
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 5:54 am Post subject: Summer is over (for me, at least.) |
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Today is our first day back to school. Getting to this point has actually been rather stressful. I've had lots of irons in the fire, and tending to them all challenging. Two weeks ago, someone else found a bunch of irons in another fire and gave them to me (I shall spare you all the details.)
At any rate, I kept my head up, made sure I found time to train, and I persevered. So... here's to a wonderful Fall!
 
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5th Geup Jidokwan Tae Kwon Do/Hap Ki Do
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Bulltahr
Brown Belt
Joined: 08 Mar 2015
Posts: 727
Location: NEW ZEALAND
Styles: Shotokan, Seido Juku
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Only 3 more days till Spring here, extra training for me and my daughter on the lawn once it warms up a bit more.
Michigan, hhmmmmm I will be in WI this January again, I don't envy you with those winters............
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Lupin1
Black Belt
Joined: 15 Dec 2009
Posts: 1637
Location: Naples, FL
Styles: Isshinryu
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Kids here go back to school tomorrow (6th graders and 9th graders have new student orientation today).
Karate for us will be starting up in the next few weeks (we don't have classes during the summer). Looking forward to getting back into the routine. |
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singularity6
Pre-Black Belt
Joined: 26 Jun 2017
Posts: 958
Location: Michigan
Styles: Jidokwan Taekwondo and Hapkido, Yoshokai Aikido, ZNIR Iaido, Kendo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:50 am Post subject: |
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Only 3 more days till Spring here, extra training for me and my daughter on the lawn once it warms up a bit more.
Michigan, hhmmmmm I will be in WI this January again, I don't envy you with those winters............ |
Which part of WI? I'm about an hour from the WI/MI border, and a couple hours from Green Bay.
Winters aren't so bad. I actually moved to the UP to avoid the summer heat in Detroit. Summers in the UP are far more tolerable (we rarely see 90F, and 80's are far less frequent.)
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ashworth
Brown Belt
Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 707
Location: UK
Styles: Shotokan, IJR Karate, Iaido, Kobudo
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schools here don't go back until next week! its normally the first week of September that they go back, never go back whilst still in August!
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JR 137
Black Belt
Joined: 10 May 2015
Posts: 2442
Location: In the dojo
Styles: Seido Juku
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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We go back the Wednesday after Labor Day every year. I have to go in the day before students start for teacher professional development. The 2nd biggest waste of time day every year.
The day before school starts is always the most depressing day of the year for me. I realize how many things I didn't accomplish over the summer. Then the first day of school begins and I'm fine again.
Funny thing happened a few weeks ago - one of my coworkers said "I can't believe we only have 28 days left until we have to go back to work." My reply - "In what other profession would someone complain about only having 28 days of vacation left?" |
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singularity6
Pre-Black Belt
Joined: 26 Jun 2017
Posts: 958
Location: Michigan
Styles: Jidokwan Taekwondo and Hapkido, Yoshokai Aikido, ZNIR Iaido, Kendo
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| JR 137 wrote: |
We go back the Wednesday after Labor Day every year. I have to go in the day before students start for teacher professional development. The 2nd biggest waste of time day every year.
The day before school starts is always the most depressing day of the year for me. I realize how many things I didn't accomplish over the summer. Then the first day of school begins and I'm fine again.
Funny thing happened a few weeks ago - one of my coworkers said "I can't believe we only have 28 days left until we have to go back to work." My reply - "In what other profession would someone complain about only having 28 days of vacation left?" |
It's funny how no one is really happy, isn't it?
I think it's amusing that people think that teachers "get summers off." I've had so much going on this summer between work projects and family that it didn't feel like I had "time off." It was just time spent doing things that weren't in the classroom. There was more time for me to get my workouts in, however. I will miss that!
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Bulltahr
Brown Belt
Joined: 08 Mar 2015
Posts: 727
Location: NEW ZEALAND
Styles: Shotokan, Seido Juku
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Only 3 more days till Spring here, extra training for me and my daughter on the lawn once it warms up a bit more.
Michigan, hhmmmmm I will be in WI this January again, I don't envy you with those winters............ |
Which part of WI? I'm about an hour from the WI/MI border, and a couple hours from Green Bay.
Winters aren't so bad. I actually moved to the UP to avoid the summer heat in Detroit. Summers in the UP are far more tolerable (we rarely see 90F, and 80's are far less frequent.) |
I would love to visit the UP in summer, but alas, too much work at this end over that period. Furthest North I will be is St Germaine, snow mobiling for a few days....Then Stevens point, Berlin (Grimms) and Baraboo.
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