Fifteenth Week of Student Teaching.

I haven't done this in a while, but here goes!

This week, I only had to teach one lesson a day, as opposed to the whole day. Mrs. Stanger is trying to transition back to her teaching.

Day 71. I think it's hilarious to watch these kids play football. When they get into the game, they REALLY get into the game. While I was watching on bus duty, I watched as a kid got burned by another boy to score a touchdown. Sure enough, one of my students (half the size of the rest of them) comes around running and screaming "ARE YOU KIDDING  ME! WHAT HAPPENED THERE!! COME ON!" I just had to laugh... but I will say it now. I don't want our kids to play football.

Day 72. Brandon the best husband ever came to visit me at school on his way from his job interview (YESSSS HE HAS A JOB!). The kids wanted to ask him some questions, so I told them they could ask 5 questions. They asked things like "What do you like?" "Have you seen the Hobbit?" "What's your favorite color?" When Brandon said he played football the boys all cheered and yelled. Boys.

Day 73. Today, a boy came up to me and said, "Look at what I can do!" And before I could stop him, he said, "Everybody do the FALL!" and dropped himself to the ground, smacking his head on the ground so hard it shook the floor by my feet. I asked him if he was ok, and he stood up with his hand covering his forehead. When he took his hand away, he had major carpet burn on his forehead. I was laughing so hard I couldn't help it. This is the boy who reads at a 3rd grade reading level...

Day 74. As mentioned before, today I was stressed out about not having a job. I was super tired and just wanted to go to bed, but I remembered that I had signed Brandon and I up to clean the temple. I really didn't want to go, which sounds terrible. Luckily, I realized that if I didn't want to go, that was probably Satan and that I needed to go. Brandon was getting trained at his new job, so he couldn't go. I'm so glad I did, not for the least of which this picture I got:

Day 75. I don't remember much of what happened. I was exhausted from cleaning the temple, and didn't have the patience to get into arguments with the kids so I didn't. Luckily, Mrs. Stanger said I seemed so much more relaxed and natural with the kids. I guess running on fumes helps.



I'm going to miss these kiddos. I still have 2 more days, which makes it seem like student teaching is dragging on... oh wait it is.
But tomorrow starts with (gasp) a job interview! It's with an agency that has a position in Psycho Social Rehabilitation. I know that it generally works with people who have mental illnesses, but I'm not entirely sure what else I would do.
I think cleaning the temple helped, I'm going to make sure to go more often to see if I can get more blessings (aka job interviews).