School

I've been busy busy with my class. My cooperating teacher found out she is pregnant and due at the end of the school year so I have a 6 week leave position in the bag if I don't get a job. This will also make for a few sub days with my usual kiddos. When a door closes, God always opens another or at least a little window.

The first cool snap down here in Louisiana came and went and I'm just sitting here waiting for it to return again. We have a field trip this Friday so that should be interesting. We are going to the aquarium. It's an all day affair that requires charter buses and the kids are mostly excited about watching tv on the bus.

I'm going to miss my kids so much when I have to leave them. There are a few that just crack me up. One in particular, I'll call him Gman always has something interesting to tell me. I try to circulate the room in the mornings and let my talkers get a few things out before we get started so they can stay quiet during lessons. The other day Gman approached me with the most serious face and asked me if I was ok with what he had to say. I said, "of course, whatever you need to tell me will be fine." So, he gets even more serious and says, "are you sure you're ok with this?" I was thinking oh Lord, what now but I told him I'd heard lots of things in my life and whatever he had for me, I would be ok. His face got even more serious (which I totally didn't find possible until then) and he lifted his foot and said, "I have dog poop on my shoe." It was dried up and mostly gone so he informed me that he would stomp his feet on the concrete at recess to get rid of it. Today Gman had a story about a farting pony at a birthday party that apparently was so impressive, it could sneeze and fart at the same time. If only our end of the day language lessons were as impressive as the farting pony.

Life or something like it

Student teaching is going great, just wish it was over already. Tomorrow I start teaching reading which means I'll have math, language and reading. In two weeks I begin teaching social living so that will have me teaching full-time with the exception of 15 minutes for spelling. We are using the Spalding method for reading and spelling and while I've been trained on the reading portion of it, I don't know anything about the spelling part so I get to skip it. Depending on where I end up teaching at, I will be sent to Spalding training at some point so no worries there.

I'm just ready to have my life back. My weekends consist of beer and football but I don't get to participate in it. Next weekend, I have to work an LSU game with a UFC fight right after so that will kill my Sunday as well. I've been neglecting church for the past few weeks and I need to start going again. Being exhausted is not an excuse.

I did my Sunday night usual and headed to Target. I didn't score anything of particular interest except three long sleeved layering t's. The mornings have been pretty cool this past week but it warms up fast during the day. For once, I'm actually ready for the colder weather. We haven't had rain in forever which means outside recess duty twice a week. It's been so long since it rained, there is a statewide burn ban in effect. My poor grass is just about dead but at least I'm not out there mowing it every week.