Beautiful Stranger

I met a beautiful stranger over the weekend at a bus stop. His name was John and his hair flapped in the wind. He's applying to design schools for architecture and somehow we ended up sprinting to the next bus stop. It was a strange five minutes of my life.

I have this week off of student teaching and it has been wonderfully restful. Now that it's Tuesday, I must get to work on my Inquiry (teacher research) paper. I'm in the library now, drinking a can of coke and blogging. At least I'm in the library. Since I arrived, I had a snack, updated my virus definitions, updated my spyware definitions, updated my OS, and cleaned off my desktop. One of these moments now, I'll start working on my paper. I'm thinking of installing AIM. A lot of my east coast friends still use inferior instant messaging software. Poor souls.

I saw the Boston Marathon yesterday. I didn't expect to be affected so much, but quite a few moments brought tears to my eyes. Seeing the wheelchair racers and watching the determination in people's eyes was a humbling experience. Between the elite runners and the rest of the bunch, I grabbed a slice of pizza and a coke. The irony was not lost on me. I would never run a marathon, but I would consider a half marathon.

Since I've started working with Lesley (my cooperating teacher in the 3rd grade), I have really enjoyed my student teaching. It's a lot of fun working with the same group of kids everyday, introducing them to concepts for the first time, helping them resolve social conflicts. Sometimes it's hard not to laugh at their "serious" problems. For example, one student was almost in tears because she had been accused of "liking" a certain boy. She'll look back and laugh some day. But for now, I try to console and help her gain some perspective. I used to hate it when adults laughed at my problems. Teaching is all about respect. If you don't respect your students, you won't be able to teach them much.

Calling All Readers.

If you read this, even if I don't speak to you often, you must post a memory of me. It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened. Then post this to your blog. See what people remember about you.

You don't really need to. In fact it's like a chain blog which is even worse than one of those email forwards. I'm not sure why I was compelled to answer the blog that I found this in and continue it. Perhaps I'm self-involved. You can choose option 2 and post your favorite word.

Back from nowhere

I have nothing interesting to say but I decided to post because it's been too long. I have been superbusy ever since I started student teaching. Waking up at 6 everyday really can sap the energy out of you. On a bright note, my handwriting has improved. Writing huge can really force you to think about each letter. Teachers constantly have to think about setting good examples. Life is pretty good. Ben is acting in a play that's going up on the 22nd, so I'm looking forward to that. He plays a gay man and the guy who plays his boyfriend asked me if I wanted to keep the whip when the show's over. Ack! This is going to be quite a show to watch. At least there's no kissing.

I have been unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with a friend this weekend. Maybe I'll have better luck during the week.

It's 9:30pm. Just about my bedtime. And I still have so much to do. Maybe it'll be a snow day tomorrow. I'm hoping for some freak of nature storm to come in. Actually this week is my full takeover week, so I've got a lot to fit in. Need to be up to the challenge. I'm in 3rd grade now and these kids are really smart...

Is This Thing On?

I have nothing interesting to say but I decided to post because it's been too long. I have been superbusy ever since I started student teaching. Waking up at 6 everyday really can sap the energy out of you. On a bright note, my handwriting has improved. Writing huge can really force you to think about each letter. Teachers constantly have to think about setting good examples. Life is pretty good. Ben is acting in a play that's going up on the 22nd, so I'm looking forward to that. He plays a gay man and the guy who plays his boyfriend asked me if I wanted to keep the whip when the show's over. Ack! This is going to be quite a show to watch. At least there's no kissing.
I have been unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with a friend this weekend. Maybe I'll have better luck during the week.
It's 9:30pm. Just about my bedtime. And I still have so much to do. Maybe it'll be a snow day tomorrow. I'm hoping for some freak of nature storm to come in. Actually this week is my full takeover week, so I've got a lot to fit in. Need to be up to the challenge. I'm in 3rd grade now and these kids are really smart...