[new academic year]

It's already a week into September.  Although it's light at 7:30pm the breeze tells me autumn is just around the corner.  My newly planted maple tree is swaying in the wind, a few of it's leaves already burnt with red and orange. This nip in the air adds chutzpah to tomorrow's first day of school/college/uni.  I know there are a few things that I still look forward to about my first day of *school*:

• a new outfit including
• new shoes!
• crisp notebooks, pages immaculate and ready to be filled
• buying pens! lots of pens! all sorts of different colours and sizes (though black fine point is my favourite)
• meeting up with friends after the summer break and finding out what everyone did with their two months break from classroom teaching (unless there was summer school...)
• clean and tidy classrooms
• clean and tidy students!
• the office supply closet is full (of pens! and paper and notebooks and paperclips and staples and folders and and and)

What are some of your favourite things about new starts?










Note: that amazing image of a Japanese Maple isn't mine (I have the usual Canadian kind). It's by one man's perspective on flickr.  


The photo of the books is from OmarC on flickr.