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From my last day in Quarantine: A Reflection on Year 4 and a Vision for Year 5

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The rain has slowed down for the first time in a few days. In less than a few hours, I'll leave my hotel home for the last two weeks, go home to my apartment and pets, and kick off getting ready for YEAR 5 of teaching! *gulp*  Reflection: Quarantine For the last two weeks, I've spent time reflecting on the last year and soaking in this relaxation time as long as I can. I've thought about year 4 of teaching, reading ( Breath , Interior Chinatown , He Saw That It Was Good,   Flash Boys , and  The Midnight Library;  unfinished:  Jesus and John Wayne, IQ ), watching Netflix ( Car Masters: Rust to Riches & Cobra Kai ), working on teacher homework, scrolling through *way too much* Instagram, improving my Adobe and ProCreate skills, Facetiming friends and family, and doing daily yoga with other quarantiners via Google Meet. Considering how crazy the rest of the world was in 2020-2021, Taiwan requiring quarantine doesn't seem like too steep of a price to pay for relative