The past few days have been relatively uneventful. That was until today...
Friday:
Friday was a half day in which we did not get to finish our math lesson, but we did have lots of fun. It was great because my cooperating teacher was exhausted (she ended up being sick for part of the weekend). After school, though, we had this three hour training session with someone from the company who made our math series. It was nice, because we noticed we could utilize more things with the series, but it could've been done in about an hour.
Saturday:
Saturday was a relaxing day. I woke up when I wanted (like 8:30), worked on my CC report for a bit, then went hiking with Nick at the Betatakin. All the pictures are on Facebook. :) Here are the ones I stole from Nick... My camera (read: phone) was charging in the car.
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| Me in front of the Betatakin ruins. We were on the outlook. |
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| The Betatakin... Anasazi (Hopi) and Navajo people used to live there. |
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| Awesome picture of the canyon walls. |
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| View of the canyon from the end of the Aspen trail. It was a semi-challenging trail, so we were both pretty pooped after hiking. |
On Sunday, I was invited to go to the church of my cooperating teacher's daughter. We had a little misunderstanding, and she thought I wasn't going, so she didn't go, but all was well. The people were very nice, and it felt so much like home. I really enjoyed it. There was a potluck afterwards for a couple in the church who was celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary. It was really nice to hang out with everyone from the church after and get to know them a little better. Also, I learned that part of the movie Forrest Gump was filmed about 30 miles from here. You know when he just decides to stop running? He's in Monument Valley. There's apparently a wooden sign and everything to commemorate this event. I really want to go see it. After I got home, I just hung out a bit, then scheduled a video chat date with two of my best friends. That video chat ended up being between 5 of us altogether on Google+. It was hectic, but totally worth it. I also ended up exercising a lot between church and video chat. My abs hurt today, but it's also worth it. :)
And.... today:
Today was supposed to be my first day as a "full-time" teacher in my classroom. Little did I know (or my teacher know), there was a training for the teachers on the leadership team in the school. My teacher is one of them. I guess all of the other teachers who have student teachers are also on the leadership team. I ended up being without my teacher pretty much the entire day. At lunchtime, the aide never came to pick the kids up (she was probably subbing or something...), so one of the other aides and I took the kids to lunch. I ate with them, then was told after lunch that we would be getting a new student. Awesome. I was excited to see him, but he came on the worst first day ever. lol. My kids were a little rowdier than normal today, but that just won't happen tomorrow. I can't handle another day like today, and I refuse to yell at them. In my experience, yelling just makes things worse. I'm just going to use the discipline system my teacher has in place. It seemed to work pretty well today until one of the kids just stopped caring. He doesn't get his full recess tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a better day, just wait and see. :)
Today was also a home volleyball game, which was very exciting! The girls lost, but it was still a good game. I was proud of the way the Varsity girls played today. I only got to watch their game since the JV was right after school and the Pee Wees didn't play. I'm excited to get back to practicing tomorrow. I could use some running around the gym with the girls.
After supper and the game, I did the normal study hour routine. Of course, the girls always ask me questions about my personal life. One of their new favorites is asking about my boyfriend. When I tell them I don't have a boyfriend, they ask if "Bigfoot" is my boyfriend. Bigfoot is what the girls decided Nick's name should be. It started with one of the first graders calling him Bigfoot, and it just stuck. I, of course, tell them the truth, and say we're just friends. Tonight, though, one girl just kept bothering me about it. She kept saying he'd be my boyfriend "a few months later" and "one month later." It was frustrating, but I just kept telling her, "it's not going to happen." She finally gave up, but this was by far the longest time any of the girls has tried to keep pestering me about my nonexistent boyfriend.
I ended the night boyfriend-less, eating a couple handfuls of Goldfish, and procrastinating grading those papers...
Have a great week!!
Sara
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