Sunlight

I love light. The first thing I do every morning is open all the blinds in my house. I need light. For three years I had a classroom with windows. This year I had to change classrooms part way through the year. (One of the joys of teaching year-round is that you have to rotate classrooms.) I am now in a classroom without windows. There is a lot of artificial light but I still feel a little claustrophobic in there. I miss my windows. When I first started teaching, hardly any of the classrooms had windows and it did not bother me. I have become spoiled and I really miss windows in my classroom.
Today I was cleaning the blind and the window above the sink. I decided I didn't want that blind anymore so I took it down. It made my kitchen so much brighter. There is just a field behind me so I don't have to worry about neighbors spying on me or anything. I wish I had taken that blind down earlier.