By tonight, I'll be four weeks into the semester, which means I've completed one field placement. I spent two days a week for three weeks in a middle school in our area, and I loved it! (For all of the nay-sayers who thought middle school wasn't for me, I think you might be wrong.) In my next placement, which starts in two weeks, the freshmen are separated from the rest of the high school, and I'll be visiting with the freshman crowd for four weeks.
Because of Labor Day this week, our Monday class was canceled. Then, the teacher of our Tuesday class doesn't want us to get ahead of the Monday class, so Tuesday class was canceled. When our Wednesday teacher was making our syllabus, she was originally scheduled for Monday nights, but she forgot to add back in this week when her night was changed to Wednesdays. So, our Wednesday class was canceled as well. This week, our only class meeting will be Thursday. There's no field placement next week, so I'll have all day every day to get some work done. Here's hoping for a chance to get ahead, work on some projects, and reduce the stress going into the next placement experience.
Recently, I've been working on some job applications, hoping to get a paying job starting in January. I sent an email to check on the status of my application and make sure they've received all of the documents that I sent (they haven't, so I'm glad I asked), and the HR person who wrote me back said she would forward my file on to some principals for their review. I didn't even ask for that, so I was pretty happy to find out that she thinks my application is worth considering.
Keith and I were both sick last weekend, but yesterday was a good day for both of us. We don't have major weekend plans, so maybe we'll both start next week feeling much better than we did this week.
With four weeks of this semester completed, I have less than three months before my current courses are complete. I think I can manage that.
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