one more game
So if the White Sox win tonight, then they will win the World Series. One more game. I think I'm not so much shocked but more just so happy that I can barely believe it. I mean it's the White Sox. The team that was leading the Central Division by 15 games and then watched that lead slip to a game and a half. They almost didn't even make the play-offs. And here they are, one game away from winning it all. Amazing. Although I feel like the worst fan ever because I turned the game off in the bottom of the eleventh inning after Bobby Jenks walked the first batter and then hit the second batter with a pitch. Runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs. But they made it through the inning and I don't even deserve to call myself a Sox fan because I gave up on them. I was just too nervous to watch anymore. I get so upset when they lose, and I know it's just a game. I wish I was still in Chicago watching it. I don't think I've ever been this homesick before. I don't know what's different this year to make me want to go home so much. It was relaxing there and nice. My parents and I talked and I have changed my plans for my future. I'm going to stay at Ball State for the entire year next year and wait to student teach until Fall 2007, which means I'll be here for an extra semester, but that will be student teaching. I wanted to student teach in the Spring and take summer classes to finish next May, but my parents said that I should work during the summers instead to build up money for the school year. So it looks like another year as a camp counselor. So I could take a semester of classes in the Fall, student teach next Spring like I planned, and then take another semester in Fall but that wouldn't make sense and would make the housing issue difficult. Right now, it looks I'm going to live with Angela and 3 other girls in a house off the cow path so hopefully that will all work out. Hopefully everything will work out. I just get so nervous about my future. I have all these plans and then something always happens. Maybe if I had talked to my parents first and hadn't been so stubborn and intent on doing what I want to do and ignoring what other people think, as usual.....Oh well. So if I stay here and take classes in the Fall and Spring and then student teach next Fall (I'm so scared that the education department won't let me but I'll go talk to them tomorrow) then I can graduate in December. Get certified to teach in Illinois and go back and get a sub job there and look for a place to live in Chicago and then find a teaching job in the city. So it looks like it may be later rather than sooner when I end up in New York or a city on the East Coast, but I'll get there, eventually. Hopefully.