Hey guys sorry I didn't have a chance to blog yesterday but it was a crazy day and I'm running on about 4 hours of sleep every night. Yesterday I was at the school all day learning how to create a lesson plan because I had to turn in one complete lesson plan to day along with three additional vision plans. I have a partner that I have been working with and he is Indian and his name is Sharan and he is cool. We have been working well together. The only problem is that we were up until 2 in the morning and then I still had to get up at 5:00 so I have been trying to keep my eyes open all day. I have to make changes to my final lesson plan tonight and finish three more by tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. Guess what? Tomorrow is my first day of teaching. I have 24 students and I'm only suppose to have a maximum of 20! The principle told all 8 of the 8th grade teachers that he wants us to be really hard on these 8th graders because apparently they have had a lot of behavioral problems with them and that if we can deal with these kids we can deal with just about anything...great...just my luck! Guess I will have to bring out that strong teacher voice sooner than I thought. This has seriously been the hardest week of my life I don't think I have ever worked so hard or gone with out as much sleep. Sometimes I go through moments of thinking that I can't do it and I don't have any idea what i'm doing here or how to teach these kids but then I take a deep breathe and know that God wants me here and somehow I have to get this work done and get through to these kids. My lesson plan tomorrow is about how to use context clues within a sentence or text to held identify unfamiliar words. I start teaching at 8:50 so be praying for me....before I start teaching I will be going over with the class all the rules and expectations of my classroom (this should be interesting :). Last night I got back to campus at 5:30 changed clothes, grabbed dinner in 10 min, went to a mandatory study session at 6:00 then had to go to an English Language Arts planning session from 7:00-8:30, after that I was in the resource lab until 11:30 working, then the copy room until they closed, then the 24/7 computer lab. Lets just say it was a long night. I'm going to try to go to sleep earlier tonight because I have to teach tomorrow but I still have a lot of work to do and another session tonight. I can't wait till I have some free time and can go for a run or hangout without people...I need a little break. We got to go into our classroom today and I tried to add some color to the extremely boring room by making some bulletin boards and writing on the board and putting up some inspirational quotes but I didn't have much time so it will be a work in progress. My room number is 218. So anyways as you can tell it is non stop work i'm actually writing this blog while I am on my back to campus on our yellow school bus. Its the only time I have to do it!!! Missing you all and thinking about you. Sending love your way!
Love,
Molly
Molly, I love and miss you and am SOOOO proud of you I can't even put into words. I was behind in reading your blog but will now go to it every day as I don't want to miss following your journey. This is such an amazing opportunity and they have obviously chosen the best of the best people to be a part of this mission. Hang in there kid. Soak it all in and remember they have a system in place that works so don't worry that you can't do this. You are strong, smart, hard-working :: and cute too! I love you. Aunt Anne
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