Hobbies

A.J. is in full swing with his student teaching and he recently made the comment that teachers don't have time to enjoy any hobbies. After reading Becky's blog and learning about her very busy first year, after talking with my roomate who is also a first year teacher, and then thinking about my own day as a third year teacher teaching new content so it's basically like I'm still a first year teacher, I decided to write about hobbies.

If I wasn't a teacher (or had any sort of responsible job) and had all the time in the world to do the things I love, here are some of the things I would do:

• Spend real time learning about photography and seriously start considering pursuing that further


• Read a book for fun


• Play my guitar more often


• Finish knitting the scarf I started working on 3 years ago


• Update this blog


• Plan the best wedding anyone's ever attended


• Call all my friends and family who I haven't had time (or energy) to consistently keep in touch with


• Practice my tap dance routine (that's right.. I am having fun with one hobby at the moment... I'm taking an adult tap class)


• Organize my music (because I'm a dork and I like organizing)


• Learn how to crochet


• Spend time in fellowship and good conversation with others over cups of coffee


• Put together the puzzle I got for Christmas 2 years ago


• Clean our apartment (not quite a hobby but in desperate need of being done)


• Learn the dance moves to the final song in Burlesque


• Take up the violin


• Brush up on my Espanol


• Audition for a community theatre production


• Watch all the movies I've been meaning to see


• Plan out a meal, go shopping for that meal, and actually cook the meal


• Learn German


• Alphabetize every book and movie and thing that has a title in our apartment


• Solve world hunger

Oh how I wish I had time for my hobbies.