It's been a long time, and I shouldn't even be here now I know. Got plenty of work to do, and a party with the Block friends tonight. But, I decided to stop in here, so I figure it's about time for an update.

I've just had my first week in the schools as a TA. I start "teaching" for a full three weeks next week...sort of. My cooperating teacher has a different definition of what teaching means than I understand from Block...so, we'll see how that goes.

School has been insanely busy. I have a big project due for Block soon, that I've not gotten much work done on, but I will continue to work on it as I can. Then we have about ten bajillion other things to do for that class lol. My FYE class has been going pretty well, but I have 20 papers plus two editing grades for each paper to deal with. Grading sucks! My Special Education class continues to be fascinating, but the assignment I turned in a couple weeks ago bombed...so I get to work on that as a redo, AND do the next one for next week. :/ Finally, my English Methods course is...well...unstructured, it seems. It's been very fluid, which can be good, but can also be difficult. And I think I'm supposed to have a week's worth of lessons planned for my unit plan by Monday...ugh. Lesson planning is intense work. The implementation is generally pretty fun though And if kids enjoy it and learn, that's the important part.

That's all I really have to say for now. Hope all is well with you, and know I haven't forgotten about you all


~J~