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Hi there,
I don't know what to say that isn't about TFA. So I'll put other stuff first and warn you.
Okay...
Well, I'm on my way to being NAUI certified for SCUBA. I take private lessons down in Rye, NH.
I work full time as a CSR at a call center, whopping $8 an hour.
I volunteer at a horse rescue in Troy Maine (lastchanceranchmaine.org). It's nice. Right now its been so icy and cold that its not been altogether fun helping, but the horsies are nice. They take donations!!! (Non-profit org)
That concert I started for this semester is about a month away!! I've done lots of PR for it, hopefully it has a good turnout. That's something good to put in my resume.
I think I want to just apply for some other jobs that Im interested in just to see if they'd be interested. Is that mean? Like...all the work they may put into considering applicants, potentially picking me, then me saying no?
I'm graduating in less than 2 months.
My car wont start, I think its something with the spark plugs, and therefore an electrical issue. It rained/snowed here in a stormish way and water was all under the hood. I of course have no money, the money in the next paycheck goes to pay rent.
I went on a trip to canada during spring break. It was okay. Right now I wish I hadn't spent as much on it (spent about 300 I guess, but may get some of that back)
I did accept with TFA, declined an offer to attend Hampton University (it came like 4 days after I agreed for TFA, its a good school with nice folks in Virginia)
I still want to go to grad school though at least for a Masters. That is the highest I'd need for any of the work I'm even slightly interested in. Unfortunately, the TFA region I'm in does not have a grad school partnership where I can get in heavily reduced price. That was one of the benefits of TFA I really liked!
BTW, Most of this blog is for me to vent, to not keep my thoughts trapped in my head as much soo...if you don't want to hear me talk in circles check the next post :)
What do I want to do after TFA anyway? Its a 2 year obligation, that I signed up for, it's an awesome inititiative. My placement is High School...so far all of the good, cute and cuddly stuff I'm reading has to do with grade schoolers (-middleschool). I keep thinking that H.S. kids will try to kill me....
Does this mean that I have some bias some automatic ingrained negative feelings towards kids from poor neighborhoods, underscoring schools, etc? That I feel those kids are obviously going to be mostly trouble makers and dangerous?
Argh, I watch too much t.v., and listen to many parents that are scared for their children (I mean there must be some truth/reason to why no one I know wants to have their children in public highschools, especially if its a school in a poorer neighborhood)
The TFA webstie says that of all of the poor kids that grad. H.S. half will do so with an avg. 8grd ability.
How do I teach biology, life sciences if even a quarter of my class is under 8th grd ability??? There will be lab reports, short and long answer Q/A, less multiple choice, etc.
Not to mention the fact that most schools don't integrate life sciences as a single subject until middle school which ENDS in 8th grd.
Sure, its a tentative placement...and actually the only subject I can teach!
So...I am limited to middle-high school life sciences. My deg is in Biology with a minor in gender studies where all of the classes have scattered rubrics (philosophy, english, anthropology,his,etc)
I don't know what to say that isn't about TFA. So I'll put other stuff first and warn you.
Okay...
Well, I'm on my way to being NAUI certified for SCUBA. I take private lessons down in Rye, NH.
I work full time as a CSR at a call center, whopping $8 an hour.
I volunteer at a horse rescue in Troy Maine (lastchanceranchmaine.org). It's nice. Right now its been so icy and cold that its not been altogether fun helping, but the horsies are nice. They take donations!!! (Non-profit org)
That concert I started for this semester is about a month away!! I've done lots of PR for it, hopefully it has a good turnout. That's something good to put in my resume.
I think I want to just apply for some other jobs that Im interested in just to see if they'd be interested. Is that mean? Like...all the work they may put into considering applicants, potentially picking me, then me saying no?
I'm graduating in less than 2 months.
My car wont start, I think its something with the spark plugs, and therefore an electrical issue. It rained/snowed here in a stormish way and water was all under the hood. I of course have no money, the money in the next paycheck goes to pay rent.
I went on a trip to canada during spring break. It was okay. Right now I wish I hadn't spent as much on it (spent about 300 I guess, but may get some of that back)
I did accept with TFA, declined an offer to attend Hampton University (it came like 4 days after I agreed for TFA, its a good school with nice folks in Virginia)
I still want to go to grad school though at least for a Masters. That is the highest I'd need for any of the work I'm even slightly interested in. Unfortunately, the TFA region I'm in does not have a grad school partnership where I can get in heavily reduced price. That was one of the benefits of TFA I really liked!
BTW, Most of this blog is for me to vent, to not keep my thoughts trapped in my head as much soo...if you don't want to hear me talk in circles check the next post :)
What do I want to do after TFA anyway? Its a 2 year obligation, that I signed up for, it's an awesome inititiative. My placement is High School...so far all of the good, cute and cuddly stuff I'm reading has to do with grade schoolers (-middleschool). I keep thinking that H.S. kids will try to kill me....
Does this mean that I have some bias some automatic ingrained negative feelings towards kids from poor neighborhoods, underscoring schools, etc? That I feel those kids are obviously going to be mostly trouble makers and dangerous?
Argh, I watch too much t.v., and listen to many parents that are scared for their children (I mean there must be some truth/reason to why no one I know wants to have their children in public highschools, especially if its a school in a poorer neighborhood)
The TFA webstie says that of all of the poor kids that grad. H.S. half will do so with an avg. 8grd ability.
How do I teach biology, life sciences if even a quarter of my class is under 8th grd ability??? There will be lab reports, short and long answer Q/A, less multiple choice, etc.
Not to mention the fact that most schools don't integrate life sciences as a single subject until middle school which ENDS in 8th grd.
Sure, its a tentative placement...and actually the only subject I can teach!
So...I am limited to middle-high school life sciences. My deg is in Biology with a minor in gender studies where all of the classes have scattered rubrics (philosophy, english, anthropology,his,etc)