It's exciting to have a classroom full of new students. Actually, due to a scheduling snafu, I am not exactly sure where we'll meet this afternoon. Yet, I'm sure it will be relatively easy to find a free classroom for my apparently eager men and women. I am so glad I have avoided sliding into educational management. That's often what happens to the best teachers. I have little taste for the politics of an office. The skill set required for administrative work is not my cup of tea. I know exactly what I'm doing in front of a class of ESL learners. I get great pleasure from the process.
Also, I'm constantly amazed at how different each group turns out to be. Even when I take the same level and have individuals from similar language backgrounds, things on a daily basis never go exactly the same way twice. Simply beginning and ending with a number of different classes each year seems to keep things fresh. I can only imagine how boring it might be to have a job with the same tedious tasks to do day in and day out.