Why Teach? - chapter 17

I woke at six on the first morning of Spring Break, this by force of habit.

I woke at six on the first morning of Spring Break, this by force of habit. I’d have liked to go back to sleep, but try as I might, I couldn’t. Instead I rose, dressed, combed my hair, and made my way downstairs to stand in the vestibule between the elevator and the door to Wonder’s waiting for the bakery to open, becoming, when it did so, the first per…