Playing Hooky (Teach Me Tonight) - Plot & Excerpts
As they taxied to the small island airport, she caught a glimpse of lush tropical vegetation and beyond that, the crystal blue waters of the South Pacific. Finally. Nine weeks without papers to grade, homework excuses, detention slips, confiscated electronics, parent-teacher conferences, and chalk dust on everything she owned. And two weeks of those nine will be spent in this heaven. It wasn’t that Molly didn’t love being a middle-school science teacher. Every year, her sixth and seventh graders astounded her with their energy, their curiosity, their huge potential – the world was in front of them, and though she’d only been teaching for a few years, it was such a kick to see some of her former students going on to be high school science stars. I must be doing something right, she thought as she re-packed her carry-on luggage, making sure she hadn’t left anything behind on the fifteen-hour flight. Too excited to feel the jet lag that was sure to knock her off her feet in a couple of hours, Molly stepped off the plane with the other passengers and crossed to the little airport main building to go through Immigration and Customs.
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