Preparing for spring break

Well, it's very ironic to call spring break the last week of February in Canada! We have a lot of snow planned for this week and maybe for next one (our spring break at DownTown U), so I would define it as wishful thinking. But, let me tell you I just can't wait for the real spring. It will not get here fast enough.

Except for my dreaming about a weather that will arrive here in approx. 2 months (by then I won't be able to even look at my winter coat!), I am preparing for next week: the break!!!!!! Finally! I don't know why but this semester has been particularly long and particularly heavy. And one week at home will help me plan the last six weeks of the semester that are already packed with things to do. There is so much to do and so little time. I will work as much as I can because the week after I will receive the visit of my parents and I would like to make time for them even if the semester will start again in full gear. 

All I need is good planning, doing the most important and time consuming things first: like teaching prep for my translation course, and planning the final exams (that at DU we have to give in by MidMarch, can you believe it?). I also have to write a book review, on which I have mixed feelings. I always accept enthusiastically, I put the book away and then I wake up one day and I have to read the book as fast as possible and I have to write as fast as possible. Well, this time I decided that I will work on this in advance. I want to read the book this week and start planning the review over the next one. If I can write everything, then by Mid-March I will just have to read it again and then send it out. 

By the first week of April the semester is over (the exams will follow shortly). I can't wait to have the first (almost) free summer in years!

My mantra for now is: 6 more weeks, 6 more weeks!