It Finally CAME!!!

The blessed day finally arrived yesterday! I had once again begun the dangerous cycle of checking my email every time it "bing-ed".  Yesterday, however, one of the bings was no ordinary bing! We finally received the emails informing us where our placement schools were for next year!!!!!!!  Let me reiterate, if you don't happen to grasp the weight of this glorious news...I know where I will be student teaching next year!!  Though it was very difficult having to wait as long as we did (it seemed like literally for-e-v-e-r), I put it into perspective and I feel much better. I am light years ahead of my peers that will be student teaching next spring because I already know exactly where I will be because I will be there for a full year.  And that, my friends, is a wonderful feeling.

Other reflections on the day, I just love observing my middle level cooperating teacher.  She is simply wonderful.  She has been teaching forever and she is still one of the most passionate teachers that I have ever met.  I really admire her for that.  I feel like years of teaching tends to wear on people and break them down, but perhaps that is only people that weren't meant to be teaching in the first place.... hmmm that's definitely something to consider.  Anyway, she's always learning about and applying new strategies and techniques with her students to improve her teaching and she is just such a fun teacher to watch because of this!  I also love the kids, they are so SMART! I just never recall being that intelligent when I was in seventh grade, perhaps I'm wrong, but I still feel like some of them are smarter than me now (I just don't let them know that! ;) )

I also tutor a local student for one of my classes.  This is my most dreaded and favorite part of the week all at once.  Today I adored it, last week I adored it.  My tutee and I have made an awesome connection and I have learned so much more from that little human than I could have ever imagined.  I can only think that students must teach teachers just as much, if not more than we teach them.  The way they see the world can be so naive yet eye-opening and worldly yet innocent.  I'm going to be really sad to see the end of our last session next week.