Alma followed her carpool charges into the high school. The students were meeting this first day with a mix of excitement, nervousness, and dread. This time, Alma was experiencing those same feelings along with them. She felt the same first day butterflies in the pit of her stomach that she did back when she was in school. It was the anxiety of being in a new place with new people and hoping the day went well without too many mistakes or too much embarrassment. It had been a long, long time since she had been in front of a classroom. She just hoped that it hadn't been too long.
