Learn Tech with Ruth

Now that we've been out of school for a week and I have had a chance to get some mental rest I am considering what exactly I am excited about. I had told my school friend Sabine who is still living in Germany where we grew up that in retirement, which is in three years, I want to move to Spain. She was surprised but then confessed she wants to open a bed and breakfast in Sweden where people can still visit with her even though she has a severely disabled husband. It's not really one of those fight or flight situations. I do want to move to Spain and open some kind of rest stop on the Camino de Santiago route. It sounds crazy, I know, but that's a long term plan. Now as far as immediate things I am excited about, there are a few things. We have puppies. They are one week old, too adorable. And there is hiking; we've explored a few new ones lately in the area. I had wanted to do a cross country road trip this summer. It's too bad I am not really that excited about spe

We have made it through an entire year with in person teaching during a pandamic. Let that sink in for a moment. We did well. Students learned a lot and we had smaller class sizes due to some students going on virtual school. In some regards this was a good year. It was peaceful. Virtually no discipline issues with any student in my classes. No, not all had the best attitude every day. But they came to school. We talked, we laughed and we learned. As a teacher with now 34 years of teaching behind me I am satisfied that I did my best. I am now slowly shedding the mask. I went to Walmart without one (yes, fully vaccinated). I felt a bit like a rebel doing it. Most people didn't wear one either. For some reason it is hard to plan things for this summer. I don't need rest. I need some excitement in my life. I want to travel somewhere but I can't decide where to go. Initially I wanted to do a cross country car trip in the SUV, but now that seems too hard. So we are doing smaller