Your first year is supposed to suck.

This is a letter from a teacher friend at my school:

Jenn,

Just wanted to let you know that everything will get better. Your first year is supposed to suck. You are supposed to cry. You are supposed to be miserable. You are supposed to feel inadequate. It means you care and that you want to be a better teacher. Nobody ever knows what they are doing completely. It just gets better as the years go by. Just take all the advice you can get and keep working at it. One day it will get easier. Hang in there.

P.S. Next year will suck, too, and that's ok, it will be better than this year.