It seems that every time that I promise to "keep up" with my blog, the more distracted that I become. It has been a very busy stressful time for me lately. Here is a recap: I am now working two eight hours a day at my real estate job (which doesn't seem like much--but those days seem to last forever). I cannot wait until my last day at work, August 6th baby! I am also still in school full time. I had a massively huge project due this week, which will be reviewed by officials of the State of California Education Department. I sort of feel that I out everything I had into making that project perfect and now I don't even want to look at the rest of my homework. I am nearing the end of this semester and I look forward to going to Idaho for vacation in August. I finished my last day of student teaching, for this semester, at the end of June.
I have been with that fourth grade class since January and it was a bitter-sweet farewell. The kids were ready to be done with school, and they had been crazy-hyper so I was ready for them to be done with school also. However, they were my first class and I am going to miss them all so much! I cried when I had to say goodbye to them at the end of the day. There were 25 boys and 7 girls in that class and I grew to love them all. I knew each of their personalities, several of my boys were class clowns, and their strengths and weaknesses. All the girls would follow me around and offer to help me with things because they wanted to be near me. It was really sweet.
As hard as it was to say goodbye, I hope that I have this same sort of connection with all of my future students. My Master Teaching was awesome too! She was so supportive and was willing to help me with whatever I needed, and she was always willing to let me take over the class when I needed too. I can't wait to work with her again in January! So, now here I am waiting for this term to end so I can begin a new one. I feel apprehensive about what is to come and stressed about what I still need to accomplish. I wish you all well and may your lives be less complicated than mine is right now! ;P
