Catherine

So I'm completely in love with my classes this semester, I applied for the teacher ed program last week, things are going well school-wise. Last semester was the best I've had yet as far as GPA goes and I intend to continue to raise the bar each semester and do better and better. I actually thought critically about the books I bought the semester, and am *gasp* actually READING them. I'm not bringing my computer to lectures, it proves to be more of a distraction than a benefit. Dr. Quick trained me in 9th grade to write quickly, I can generally summarize every slide a teacher talks about and successfully write it all down. The more I get into teaching the more I think about my future classroom, the kind of environment I want to create there for my students, it's all quite terrifying really. I'm totally freaked out by the idea of my own classroom, I'm pretty sure that won't happen after graduation (I'll graduate in December) it'll end up being subbing for a semester most likely. But, still. My New Year's Resolution to read 50 books in 2009 is going so-so, I still have only completed 2 books (1984 by George Orwell and Let it Snow by John Green, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnshon) however, I have 2 in progress, (A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut and Uglies by Scott Westerfield) I like Vonnegut, looking forward to reading more of his stuff. So I was going to write about my "aesthetically amazing" moments for my Art Ed class, but, that didn't happen and now I'm sleepy. Opening tomorrow...woohoo