Monday, October 17, 2011

Woah oh We're Halfway There Woah Oh

Well Bloggers,
I can't believe it I'm a little over half way down with my student teaching.  Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday I was panicking over the start of this adventure and my first meeting with Coach. Shortly after my first encounters of the student teaching kind my fears were rested aside I continued to dive head first into the cut throat world of public education.  Now that I am well over half down, I spend my days with my head frantically spinning when I think of what lies ahead in my life journey.  With applications and requirements for Grad school, registration for next semester, and no idea where my life is going, I'm more than a little stressed out. And since I become incredibly depressed when I think about leaving my students at the beginning of December, I have decided to place a lot of faith into God's hands and sit back, relax, and enjoy the last half of student teaching.  I have learned so many lessons that I never dreamed of learning. I have seen poverty and desperation on a level that I never even realized existed in the US, I have seen children overcome hurdles and obstacles that no one let alone a teenager should face.  I have seen children make leaps and bounds of progress solely because for the first time someone  has been paying attention to them. I have also learned about homecomings, and bad first dates, celebrated college acceptances and 16th Birthdays.  I have watched the kids eyes light up when I tell them the whole class passed hte exam.  The Good most certainly outweighs the bad and I honestly wouldn't trade it for anything. So while I am not sure where my life is heading or where I will be in the future, for now I know that I am happy and excited to be an educator.
I pose this questions to you my blog reading friends, are you genuinely, deep down excited about what you will be doing each day with your major?
Peace and Blessings,
Kjo

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

On my Soap Box

Hello Blogland,
If I were an actual avid blogger instead just trying to kee my friends updated on my life I would be linking up for Truthful Tuesday, which is kind of what this because it is one of my favorite parts of blogland.  However, today I will be jumping on top of my soap box and not getting down for many many paragraphs.

Today's SoapBox is about acting like the 21-22 year old adults my age demographic is.  I'm not making a blast at badgerland in fact I'm completely in reference to my So. Ill companions.  I had a large extended group of girls that I would have considered my group, crew, posse, whatever you want to call it throughout most of high school.  I'm not saying that we were all best friends or sister or that we all really even liked each other that much but we were considred a group of girls. You know what I'm talking about we were all in massive parties before dances and powder puff and large group photos before dances that were later captiond besties for life and friends til the end. And I'm not gonna lie some of these girls are insanely pretty. But we were different than every other group of "those girls" we had one thing that made us different than all of those who came before and probably those who would come after us.  What is that you might ask? WE WERE and still ARE NICE.  We are nice girls.  We were never rude to someones face, never openly thought we were better than someone, never disrespectful or bitchy. In fact we were friendly and open about hanging out with people, talking to people, and in general pretty much were walking rays of sunshine about 80% of the time. However, we were always made to be the bad guys. Whatever the past is in the past right? Wrong.
Fast forward to 2011. When any of my friends or myself run into people from high school they normally ignore us as if we arent there. It would be one thing if we had personally victimized them however we did. In fact they personally vicitimize us on a daily basis in high school and now.
So if you happen to stumble upon this blog and think it might be about you... well it probably is. So fyi grow up and say hello to the people you have known practically your whole life. We don't bite and we never have so get over yourself.