My life at present is not much better off than it was when I last posted –in some areas (notably my thesis), it’s quite worse due simply to the fact that it is has now been three weeks since then and I haven’t worked much on any of the things I wrote about before. My daily schedule is split into two halves –the first, in which I am at the high school doing my internship– and the latter, in which I go to work at Ardenwoods. I’m working weekends and about three weekdays and on my days off I usually do something when I come home from school like get called into work. So needless to say, I have resolved my schedule situation at work –or rather it has been resolved– I don’t take credit for its resolution. I can now a afford a plane ticket but it’d still be nice to have some back-up money before I leave (in just over a month now), so I’m gladly working every shift they wish me to.
This isn’t the reason I haven’t worked on my thesis –that’s due to my laziness and procrastination. I dunno what I’m gonna do about that and I don’t even want to think about it right now.
I’m glad I did start posting now, before I left the states because there were some things I’d even forgotten entirely –like contact my family in Germany. I’ll do that soon…
All in all, I am very ready to leave. I feel like I’m waiting and I can’t really do anything until what I’ve been waiting for is over. I know as soon as I get there I’m going to feel a thousand times less stressed than I am now and being so close but so far away from such relief is only further adding to my current stress.
But it’s not all bad; I taught my first lesson today. I was nervous, of course, and I taught it much faster than I had anticipated and finished up with too much time than what would have been considered acceptable if I was the teacher. But matters such as this are not what worry me about going into the field. I know it’s just nerves. And pacing can only be learned with practice so I’m not concerned. Instead, I’m happy with how well I held the students’ attention and how efficient I was relaying the material to them.
I believe that’s all I wanted to write for now. Hopefully the next entry will bear better news about my thesis and such.
Peace.
12.2.09
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