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Life continues on: chug-chug-chug. Here's the update on random things.
- The National Honor Society for Educators had their initiation this past week and i'm now a member. I was considering not doing it, just because it's one more small activity to add to the list of things i don't really have to do, but i decided to, and I'm already glad i did. I've been to a couple of the meetings before the initiation and it's really pretty cool. A lot of the people there i don't recognize (which is a little weird on such a small campus) because they're considerably farther along in the ed. sequence or are already in the schools and aren't even on campus much anymore, so it's cool to meet new faces who are just a year or so ahead of me. The initiation was pretty cool too, no slaughtering of goats or anything like that, but it was one of those simple they say-a-phrase and then you say "i accept" or "i do" or whatever afterwards adn that's it. but i found myself getting excited anyway. i'll try and explain, but it's kind of hard. Dan Beldarrain was my prof for two of my classes last semester and at time he REALLY frustrated me and i was about ready to kill someone, but he was the guest speaker and i realized how much i miss his rambling, but actually significant speeches. The first thing he said was "the one thing about teaching is, you're not in it for the money - but you know that, and you know that you're going to get something better." he talked about how sometimes you'll wonder what do to with a student, or even a whole class who just seem totally unmanagable, and you'll have days where you would rather be anywhere but there - but to remember that to some of those students, you are all they have, to some of them one lesson may stick with them the rest of their lives. sure, some of them won't remember your name in 2 years, but there are some, to who you make all the difference - and it's for those students you get up out of bed, forget what is going on at home, put up with the pain-in-the-butt students, and who make the whole ordeal worth more than anything material you could receive. It sounds so cliche to talk about it like this, but it's the reason i'm in college and to be in a room full of people who feel the same way and who get excited about it, just like I do is a pretty cool experience.
- I find myself fairly annoyed when i'm having a conversation with someone and they're taking so long to pick their vocabulary and form thoughts that my brain has already picked out their words for them and moved on. Plus i usually find that our brain paths aren't usually going the same way, so i end up thinking about a totally different thing and then realize i've missed what they were actually saying and have to try to piece it back together. maybe i should work on my patient listening skills.
- We had our room sprayed for ants before spring break. they came back. they bombed the whole building over the break. and they're back. i found one on my pant leg this morning and earlier i had my hand on my computer mouse and the nasty little bugger crawled right over my hand. DIS-GUST-ING.
- I love crasins. they are delicious.
- We (myself, Christine, Meg, and Jamie) got into E 103 for housing next year!! So we'll be in the HPs, with our own furnished bedrooms, common room, and kitchen, washer, dryer, and I got the room with the most windows. :) I'm pretty excited.
- The weather has been totally weird the past few days. It just thundered.
- Work had been really fun, I think i'm going to miss it when it's over for the year. I've been working almost exclusivly with one of the 8th graders and we've gotten to be pretty good friends. It's been so cool seeing how much he's learned over the course of a few months. he's gone from confusion when adding and subtracting negatives to radicals, and the quadratic equations. I'm so proud :)
- There are 11 days of classes left. then one reading day. then 2 days of finals and then i'm done. amazing. i can't believe it's almost over!!!! I think finals themselves are gonna be really easy, just the weeks leading up to will be bad. I've got no actually sit-down-and-write finals, all take homes, projects, or papers. For the rest of the year (that's a grand total of 20 days) i've got:
Children's Lit: Finish "Anne of Green Gables," read "The Velvatine Rabbit" and "Charlotte's Web," then final essay of 6pgs of BS
Romantic Lit: Read "Manfred," 3-5 pg imagination paper, 8-12 Frankenstein page paper and presentation
Teaching w/Diversity: Take-home
Math: take-home test, final project (making huge polygons), presentation and portfolio
Ohboy. So...i should probably get back on that stuff...
i hope things are going well in everyone's lives ~ i'm sending my love to all