Roller Coaster Week

This week has definitely had its ups and downs for me – as far as teaching goes. Gabriel also has had some ups and downs, as he had to have emergency surgery one week ago and then his iv stopped working a couple of days later. But I am very pleased to tell you that he is going home today. Also, I ended the week at school exhausted but definitely on a high note and am feeling optimistic for the week to come.

I’d be lying if I tried to say that this has not been a mentally and emotionally draining week for me, but if there is anything that I am learning as a teacher it is that you must always focus on the positive. I am really grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow, and I do have some really remarkable students. So, I am definitely looking forward to seeing how this semester progesses.

Bon week-end!

First Day!

Tomorrow is my first official day of student teaching. I’m not really going to do a lot of teaching this week, but I am suddenly nervous nonetheless. I am pretty excited to get out there and get some real experience and learn from my own mistakes… although I know that this is probably going to be really challenging at times. I would venture to say that my blog posts for the next three months will be about student teaching

I’m an aunt again

My sister, Faith, and her husband Mike had a baby boy on Friday, February 13. His name is Gabriel Scott. He had kind of a rough time coming into the world, and Faith had to have a c-section eventually. But all is well now… I just have to wait until the end of March to go to Seattle to see him!

picture

It’s amazing how quickly babies grow and develop personalities. This is a picture of Marley from about three weeks ago.

melancholy

“C’est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon coeur a tant de peine !”

Name that French poet, and you win.

teaching

I spent the entire day at Jeff yesterday, observing and helping whenever I could. I have to say that it was exhausting! And I wasn’t even the one doing all of the teaching. It really amazes me that our society disrespects teachers so much (a.k.a. “those who can’t teach.”) when these are the people who are trying to guide the next generation of our society into being productive, responsible, and hopefully respectful people. I have to say, I really never realized how much hard work goes into teaching one day’s lessons – I really have so much respect for teachers now that I am starting to see the inner workings of schools.