life and whatnot
So I know that there are at least two of you reading this! Hooray! Figured I should actually start keeping up with life, making sure I update whoever still wants to read this, because lord knows I have no time for a social life until summer starts.
At long last, school is over. Not just history degree over, but education licensure over - completely done. I am working through the end of the year at Smith High School, getting kids ready for their EOCs and then doing remediation and retesting (the teacher I took over for....well.... she was a little...... she sucked. SUCKED - there's no diplomatic way to say that) for those kids who failed. It's getting better all the time - hard, because the kids were used to a teacher who had given up and let them do whatever they wanted, but every day brings more improvement, and a lot of the kids have even begun to like me. I don't mind a good uphill battle. My seniors from Eastern, where I did my student teaching, did AWESOME. The scores for my classes could not have made me happier. I passed about 60 percent right away, which when you consider they were all projected to fail miserably, is fantastic. Every single student showed growth - like 30 percentage points of growth and up. Fan freaking tastic scores - and I am so darn proud of them. I came in to Eastern to pick up some materials for Smith and my students were screaming to me from across the building, so excited they passed. All my old kids were excited to see me - it felt good. But anyway, that's work. I like teaching, and without sounding cocky.... I happen to be pretty good at it.
Hannah is a full on big kid! She got her ears pierced. She rides her bike without training wheels (which still makes me nervous to watch). She reads - not words and letters - no, she reads, like, books. She ties her own shoes, dresses herself, can retrieve her own snacks, writes sentences.... all the things that I have done for her since she was born. She's smart, and funny, and so much like me, it's scary. In looks, sure, but the mannerisms are what's really freaky. Faces she makes, her reactions, her responses to questions and jokes, gesturing - she's a little mini-me. She's 6 years old now.
I still work at outback, probably will through the summer, assuming I get hired on next year somewhere to keep teaching. Looking forward to not bartending or waiting tables anymore. I will miss all my coworkers though - they keep me sane in that hell-hole. FUN FACT - smith high and outback are about a quarter mile apart - convenient and annoying, all at once.
Moving AGAIN, july 31. With any luck, wherever I move will be much more permanent - as in, not moving once a year at least. I hope to be teaching, and therefore settled in a place for at least more than a one year lease. We'll see though.
That's me, kids. And how are all of you - or you know, Teegan and Wesley anyway?
At long last, school is over. Not just history degree over, but education licensure over - completely done. I am working through the end of the year at Smith High School, getting kids ready for their EOCs and then doing remediation and retesting (the teacher I took over for....well.... she was a little...... she sucked. SUCKED - there's no diplomatic way to say that) for those kids who failed. It's getting better all the time - hard, because the kids were used to a teacher who had given up and let them do whatever they wanted, but every day brings more improvement, and a lot of the kids have even begun to like me. I don't mind a good uphill battle. My seniors from Eastern, where I did my student teaching, did AWESOME. The scores for my classes could not have made me happier. I passed about 60 percent right away, which when you consider they were all projected to fail miserably, is fantastic. Every single student showed growth - like 30 percentage points of growth and up. Fan freaking tastic scores - and I am so darn proud of them. I came in to Eastern to pick up some materials for Smith and my students were screaming to me from across the building, so excited they passed. All my old kids were excited to see me - it felt good. But anyway, that's work. I like teaching, and without sounding cocky.... I happen to be pretty good at it.
Hannah is a full on big kid! She got her ears pierced. She rides her bike without training wheels (which still makes me nervous to watch). She reads - not words and letters - no, she reads, like, books. She ties her own shoes, dresses herself, can retrieve her own snacks, writes sentences.... all the things that I have done for her since she was born. She's smart, and funny, and so much like me, it's scary. In looks, sure, but the mannerisms are what's really freaky. Faces she makes, her reactions, her responses to questions and jokes, gesturing - she's a little mini-me. She's 6 years old now.
I still work at outback, probably will through the summer, assuming I get hired on next year somewhere to keep teaching. Looking forward to not bartending or waiting tables anymore. I will miss all my coworkers though - they keep me sane in that hell-hole. FUN FACT - smith high and outback are about a quarter mile apart - convenient and annoying, all at once.
Moving AGAIN, july 31. With any luck, wherever I move will be much more permanent - as in, not moving once a year at least. I hope to be teaching, and therefore settled in a place for at least more than a one year lease. We'll see though.
That's me, kids. And how are all of you - or you know, Teegan and Wesley anyway?