Saturday, January 19, 2013

T-Minus 2 days to Student Teaching

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Well…here goes nothing!  As I get closer and closer to actually starting student teaching I can’t help but have a million things on my mind!  I also have family and friends all over the place so I figured it might be fun to collect all my thoughts into this blog so I can share them with everyone at once.  Please don’t mind my rambling ;)! 

Something that keeps running through my mind is how bittersweet all of this is!  I am going to miss all of my friends that are still at school working on their degrees, I am also going to miss all of my classmates that are going to be student teaching.  We had so much fun during class every single day so it is going to be tough to go through this experience without them right by my side!  It is also quite a bit frightening for me to think about it almost being time for interviewing for actual positions and joining the “real world.”  Nevertheless, I am SO excited to be able to get started on this part of my life.  I feel like it has all just been a dream and an aspiration for so long and now it is finally coming to life!  I love children!  I can’t wait to be able to work with them every single day!!

There are definitely a lot of worries at this time!  I keep waking up in the middle of the night and just thinking over scenarios and wondering what will my student teaching be like!  I honestly worry about the strangest things.  Where will I eat lunch?  What if I get there on the first day before my teacher does?  What am I going to wear?  What if I oversleep!?  How many names am I going to have to remember?  Where will I go to the bathroom?!  Seriously…who worries about that?  I think that once I actually get started everything will be a lot less stressful and I will be way less anxious.  I just have to make it through these next couple of days and then I can finally get started! 

This is what is written in a small picture frame I got from Alec, I read it every morning…and I have to keep it in mind in the next few days and weeks!

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -Christopher Robin to Pooh

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