Well, that's that.
Today was my last day at Panera! I was a little sad about it, since I've gotten to know most of my coworkers pretty well, and I like them a lot. Hopefully I'll still be able to hang out with them sometimes. I sure will miss getting a paycheck every two weeks, too. Sigh.
I received my student teaching placements! Yay! For the first eight weeks, I'll be teaching 6th grade Language Arts at Stewart MS in Ft. Defiance, Va. It's about a 25-minute drive from here. Not too bad, and I had my first practicum there and actually liked it. I also am surprisingly excited about working with 6th grade kids. I sometimes wonder if I should have gone into elementary education, because I think I like little kids better than high schoolers. My second eight weeks will be at Robert E. Lee HS in Staunton (about a 35 minute drive), which is also not too bad. I will have two sections of 9th grade and one section of 12th grade English. I haven't been able to meet with either of my cooperating teachers yet, but both of them seem very nice and excited to have a student teacher. I guess I'll find out more on Monday morning.
In much more important news: I bought some new teacher clothes with a lot of the Christmas money I got. Hooray!
Christmas was lovely, and New Years Eve was low-key, but pretty fun. I'm tired of being in my townhouse all alone though, and I'm ready for my roommates (and the rest of the JMU population) to return. It's too lonely and quiet around here, and sleeping in an empty house is creepy. I've realized that no matter what I do or where I end up, I will never be able to cope with living alone. I hate it. I don't care who I find to be my roommate, but wherever I go next year, I will have one. I don't need to know them well or even particularly LIKE them, I just need to have another warm body under the roof with me. Before Christmas, when I was in town to work at Panera and everyone I knew had gone home for break already, I was bored out of my MIND. Luckily, since coming back to Harrisonburg from my short break from work, Collin has been around to hang out with. Though I'm afraid he's starting to get tired of seeing me every day, too. ;) So it comes to this: will YOU be my roommate next year??? (Residence/city/state/country TBD.)
That is all.
I received my student teaching placements! Yay! For the first eight weeks, I'll be teaching 6th grade Language Arts at Stewart MS in Ft. Defiance, Va. It's about a 25-minute drive from here. Not too bad, and I had my first practicum there and actually liked it. I also am surprisingly excited about working with 6th grade kids. I sometimes wonder if I should have gone into elementary education, because I think I like little kids better than high schoolers. My second eight weeks will be at Robert E. Lee HS in Staunton (about a 35 minute drive), which is also not too bad. I will have two sections of 9th grade and one section of 12th grade English. I haven't been able to meet with either of my cooperating teachers yet, but both of them seem very nice and excited to have a student teacher. I guess I'll find out more on Monday morning.
In much more important news: I bought some new teacher clothes with a lot of the Christmas money I got. Hooray!
Christmas was lovely, and New Years Eve was low-key, but pretty fun. I'm tired of being in my townhouse all alone though, and I'm ready for my roommates (and the rest of the JMU population) to return. It's too lonely and quiet around here, and sleeping in an empty house is creepy. I've realized that no matter what I do or where I end up, I will never be able to cope with living alone. I hate it. I don't care who I find to be my roommate, but wherever I go next year, I will have one. I don't need to know them well or even particularly LIKE them, I just need to have another warm body under the roof with me. Before Christmas, when I was in town to work at Panera and everyone I knew had gone home for break already, I was bored out of my MIND. Luckily, since coming back to Harrisonburg from my short break from work, Collin has been around to hang out with. Though I'm afraid he's starting to get tired of seeing me every day, too. ;) So it comes to this: will YOU be my roommate next year??? (Residence/city/state/country TBD.)
That is all.