Holiday! Celebrate!

I'm not exactly sure what we're celebrating, but all I know is that today is a holiday :)

Of course, it has slightly complicated things because we're in the middle of a workshop. So instead of spending time with our teams here helping them learn how to become literacy specialists, I slept in, read my book, checked out facebook, drank a leisurely cup of coffee... and we'll have to shift all the material that we were meant to cover today into Saturday's session.

But that's just fine with me! I so much needed a holiday today. It's been a tiring week. I've been wearing too many hats, and I haven't had a day off in a really long time. I was so tired the other night that I was almost in tears - that doesn't happen very often! So yesterday afternoon, when we found out that today was going to be a holiday... ah, the burden lifted. I feel like a have a wonderful respite from the busyness. I still have a lot of work to do, as I have a lesson to plan for Friday, still. So it won't be all play today. But it's just so nice to have had some extra sleep, have the freedom to read a few chapters in my book, and to just relax a bit. This holiday couldn't have come at a better time!

My tiredness aside, the workshop is actually going really well. The participants are really keen to learn, and they're pretty on top of things, too. So it's been fun! And maybe, just maybe, they'll be able to take what we've been teaching them and go and do something with it to actually teach people how to read :)