I'm just a down to earth, fun-loving, Wyoming girl. Welcome to my blog!
I need to register for this stupid PRAXIS test so I can get my degree and my certification to teach. The only thing is...the stupid computer won't let me register or know if my password is correct. I'm so dang tired of this crap. I have to be registered by tomorrow or I have to pay a late fee, which by this point is fine, because I just want to be done with this whole registration crap. Hopefully I'll get it figured out at lunch...
I had to send a kid to the office today. It was the first time I've ever had to. Kid really pissed me off. He forgot to take his meds this morning so he thinks that gives him an excuse to be bad. Medications are such a crutch to some students. They think that not taking their pills validates their bad behavior...it's frustrating....
....parents complain that their students have too much homework. It's the parent's decision to put their kids in an extra math class, regular math class, and enrichment math. Then they put them on 2 basketball teams, a travelling volleyball team, piano lessons, and all-city band. And then it's OUR fault as teachers because they have homework. I thought school was important, but maybe I'm wrong....
I've started to see how busy I'm going to be here really soon. I decided to do book clubs where I will be seeing 4 groups a day for 15 minutes each and three other centers of work for them to do while I'm working group by group. On top of that...the students will be doing their poetry unit, we will be doing canada, and their science forces unit.... all of this will be taught by me, myself, and I. That's scary! It should be interesting. I hope it all goes well. I'm still not confident in my teaching abilities, but I guess that'll give me a little better idea of myself...
...is really pathetic and unattractive. All I've done this weekend is sit around and feel bad for myself, because all my friends and bf are in Laramie. They have their friends around them, they go out and do things. I sit here and do nothing. Well, that attitude has got to change or these are going to be the longest 4 months of my life. I'm going to Laramie for the next two weekends so that should help some...
Well, my bf was supposed to come here this weekend to visit, but there are guys from NASA in laramie and he has all kinds of homework and work to do, so he stayed in laramie. He called me tonight, drunk and funny, but he's out without me. I know he, more than anyone, deserves a night out, but I just wish I could've gone out with him. Pity party right here. Yep. Me. Well, I think I ended up making him feel really bad about not coming and I didn't mean to. I know how busy he is. I just don't have friends here and I can't really do anything here. And I also made another comment about I would stay all next weekend down there if he wasn't going to be a butthead. Now why did I say that? I feel so stupid for saying that. I didn't mean it. It was supposed to come out as a joke and it didn't sound funny, just mean. He's never treated me badly...EVER. I feel like shit about it. I hope that he doesn't remember tomorrow...time to write him an email....
Well, today in class we have very little teaching to do. We had math, then art, then reading, lunch, artcore field trip, planners and library. Pretty nice day.
On a sadder note, my bf isn't coming to see me this weekend. He has a bunch of work to do over the weekend. I think it's going to be a long semester cuz we're both going to be getting busier and busier. Oh well.... That's how it goes sometimes....
I would love to be able to set up a website where I could sell my lesson plans for a small fee. I don't have a great deal of lesson plans as of yet, but I will have a couple of great lesson units put together in the next two months or so. I don't mind sharing my work, but it would be nice to make a small profit for my work. I guess I'll have to look into that soon....
I found out that I'm going to a wedding in South Carolina with my bf this June. It should be a lot of fun. I'm going to be adventurous and go to the bachelorette party with his friend. It makes me nervous to do that since I don't know her yet and I'm afraid of getting left behind.... not to mention that I have never gone clubbing. So it should be interesting, but I'm really really excited about it! And a trip with the bf is alwasy nice.
I went and saw him in Laramie this weekend. I hate the long distance thing. But it's 4 months and he's willing to come up here to see me...so it should all work out....
I am so glad it's the weekend. I get to go see my bf this weekend. My parents are refusing to let me go down tonight. I know, I'm 22 and I should just leave, but while I'm living in their home, I can't do much about it. Plus my bf has to go pick up his boss from DIA on sunday and wasn't informed of this until last night. So he's pissed at me, and at his boss, and my parents. I'm telling you; I can't win. I'm going to go get some lunch from Wendy's and try to go to sleep early so the night will go fast and I can be in Laramie early tomorrow....
I created another blog yesterday to post specifically on my student teaching experiences. You might want to check it out. It's... http://wyomingreflections.blogspot.com
I've gotten a membership to the gym here in town and my goal is to go 5 times a week. Well, that is definitely an unrealistic goal. I haven't made it at all this week. I will be going tonight. My bf is a personal trainer so I had him make me up a gym schedule. I'm supposed to go 5 days and rest for 2. Well, I've had meetings after school this week and last week. I went to the gym last week and lifted weights for my arms. It hurt so bad that I couldn't move my elbows (of all things) for two days. It's now 5 days later and they've just now returned to normal. How sad. I guess, I just need to go as much as possible and that some is better than none. I just hope I lose some weight and the infamous buddha belly....
I hate that I was born with bad teeth and bad eyes. I would love to get lasic eye surgery because I am blind without contacts or glasses. I went to the dentist last night and he said I should get veneers for my teeth so they'd look perfect because my braces screwed up my teeth so bad. Those only cost $3000. Sure, I have that...chump change. Maybe some day. Maybe insurance will cover it....
Well, it's back to the regular schedule today. I'm taking over reading and spelling today. Next week I will take over math half the time I believe. I feel that at this point I should have taken over more. I guess I'm just kinda anxious to get things started. I found a good quote tho today that I need to follow,
"Don't judge your progress by comparing yourself to someone else."
Good advice. I should follow it....
Wow, this has been one incredibly long week of doing nothing and being bored. It'll be better next week. I really don't like Casper anymore. I have no friends here and I never do anything. My boyfriend and best friend are in Laramie. Yah, poor little me... whatever. I'm sure I will be making many trips to laramie in the near future to see them all...
Wow... it's been awhile since I've been on here. It's been busy. I moved out of my apt in Laramie mid-december. Then it was Christmas time and Dad and I decided to go to Vegas for the football game. That was fun. I won $75 and my dad won $250 so it was a pretty good trip winning-wise. Then I hung out with my boyfriend for a couple of days in Casper before he had to head back to Laramie. It's going to be a hard semester with him away.
I'm doing my student teaching right now in Casper. It's a blast. I definitely know I want to be a teacher. Now I just have to find a job. My bf and I are thinking about Hawaii for a job. He wants to go to acupunture school and Hawaii offers night classes. He wants to teach physics during the day. It should be interesting. Anyways... in school today We're doing technology camp so my class is building little car robots. It's pretty cool, but this is day three of the same thing so I'm completely bored and there's not a lot for me to do. Oh well. There'll be plenty of work to do in the coming months....
