I am so thankful for my job. I love all the challenges that come up each day, I love all the creative ways I am divinely inspired to meet them, I have even grown to love phrases like "sensible heels,"... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Things I know about Texas: the sky is big. the fried chicken is good. the sun is hot. and the people dont talk good English. When I told people that I was going to Texas to learn Latin, they all... Continue Reading →
Okay so the initial excitement about landing a teaching job, having a plan, the promise of paychecks and benefits is slowly dying. All the cuteness of the kids asking me to sign their yearbooks, clapping for me at the assembly... Continue Reading →
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