February 11

This dog. He pants and nudges and begs to be let out and then we open the door and he does this. He sticks his head out the door and sniffs for like 5 or 10 minutes and then comes back inside. Why are dogs so weird? It was otherwise a decent day. I feel like my class at work is falling behind a little, or maybe I overloaded the schedule. I don’t think we are going to finish the first phase of training by Friday as planned. But on the flip side, I’ve made some changes to the curriculum materials that are vast improvements, so at least now what I’m teaching them is accurate. Better to be late and get it right than finish early and get it wrong. I still have SO many things to do before next week. This whole class I’ve been behind the 8 ball, just trying to keep up, and it’s led to some mistakes. I’m working through them, but I hate feeling this disorganized. It’s not a good look for a teacher. But it’s my first class, it’s still better than the last few classes (by a lot), so I’m trying to take deep breaths and give myself grace. The true test is seeing how they do when they graduate. Still many weeks to go before then, so there are many opportunities to get it more right. Sempre avanti – always moving forward.