7 Days to go
I’m pretty sure I’m at the same point all of the other student teachers are at right now - counting down the days until Spring Break and a little bit of a rest. I’m exhausted. I can’t seem to ever get ahead of the work I need to do for this and every time I think I may have pulled a little ahead, I find out about something I forgot to do.
I was sick a couple of weeks ago as well. That slowed me down to a crawl. I’d get home from school and just want to crash. I didn’t get any papers graded or much else done in the evenings. I’ve just about caught up from that now, but I won’t really be able to say I’ve caught up until sometime Sunday night probably.
Next week marks the end of my first placement. After Tuesday next week I will be slowly transitioning away from the front of the classroom and letting my co-op take his room back over. I’ve enjoyed working with him and his class. I’ve also enjoyed meeting the rest of the teachers from the 8th grade and working with them as well. I can only hope the 7th grade teachers are about as equally unified as the 8th grade teachers are.
Needless to say with as exhausted as I’m always feeling, I haven’t done any writing on the monocle. I did come up with another fun bit of alliterative clothing though. The “Dastardly Dagged sleeve”. I have a sentence written for it, but nothing else to really go with that little sentence.
My 2nd formal observation is this Thursday. I’m not ready for it. I’m pretty sure I’ll do ok, but I can’t really say I’m ready for it. I just want to sleep for a week or two.
In preparation of actually having some free time again sometime in the future, I picked up Guitar Hero III for my Wii. I also hoped on Ebay and picked up a cheap wireless guitar for my PS2 for whenever I pick up the GH games for that platform.
Yeah, that’s enough time away from being productive. Back to work. Sleep beckons, but it’s not going to happen. The know in my shoulder will probably see to that.
