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it will be okay...
By anne
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sarah,
i think i see where you are coming from. when i first got out of school and started teaching, i was by far the youngest teacher in my school, and i had just moved to a small town where i knew absolutely NO ONE!| at first, i really thought that everyone was horrible, and i called all of my friends everyday crying. sad, but true. at first i thought that it was my age. now, i am not sure that that is so true. see, when i got married and moved to this new, big town, and started in my present job, i felt just as isolated. i wasn't the youngest this time, but i still felt out of the loop with everyone | |
there. guess what? i felt like crying everyday there too. i just didn't feel like i "belonged." i took about a year for me to really get to know everyone and i feel more "with" everyone. when i reflected about my first teaching experience, i realized that it took about a year there for me to really make friends and feel that i belong.
i totally understand your frustration and your feelings. all this advice that i can give you is to hang in there and realize that it will probabely take about a year to really start to feel like part of the group.
good luck!
anne
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