I finally had my first "seeing a student outside of school" outer body experience! Check that one off the list! I've been dreading this moment since I started teaching. Since I teach at a private school, our population pools from... Continue Reading →
So I'm not sure exactly how it happened, but somewhere today in the middle of a lecture on the finer differences between transitive and intransitive verbs, I ended up teaching a classroom of seventh graders how to use...wait for it....Pager... Continue Reading →
I'm definitely freaked out by this "growing up" thing. Twenty-five and a half?! I can reach forward and touch 30, but I can't reach back and touch...well I don't even want to be 20 again, but its scary to think... Continue Reading →
After writing 146 somewhat clever and personalized progress reports for the junior high children, I had the pleasure (and sometimes pain) of meeting with something like 106 parents in the living nightmare known as "Conferences." To say my brain felt... Continue Reading →
Its possible that a lot of opinions people might have had about me teaching at a private Christian school have a sort of...validation. Its possible that my personality is a bit....wild for my current working environment. For example... Back to... Continue Reading →
The adorable thing about technology is that it allows you to keep in touch with those that might have been hard to maintain contact with in a pre-internet world. For example, while I have lots o' people I want to... Continue Reading →
I love that we start school with a nice three-day (or four-day, if you're a rotten public school student. what the heck we didnt get that when I was in school!?) weekend right off the bat. It kinda eases us... Continue Reading →
Everyone who has asked me what I'm doing for a job right now has a similar response when I tell them that I'm teaching junior high. "Really? why? they're so...awful...." - most people "Seriously? Oh thats sucks, I would never... Continue Reading →
Okay this morning, first real day of school, after like six cups of coffee, laminating everything I could get my hands on, and the nervous morning poo, and pacing around the desks and wondering if I had correctly aligned the... Continue Reading →
So the joke still hasnt gotten old for me. It goes something like this: Someone Rachel hasn't seen in a while: "hey! hows the job hunt going?" Rachel: "oh yeah i got a job! I'm going to be a teacher!!"... Continue Reading →
I remember my great grandma talking about spiders in the South that were the size of dinner plates. i woud laugh at her exaggeration. I am not laughing now. Last night, while tucking my mosquito net in around my bed... Continue Reading →
my best friend Traci's brother Matt has been fighting the war in Afghanistan for the last year or so. They were called last week that he had been injured in some sort of accident or attack, they're not sure which.... Continue Reading →
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