I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Unexpected Changes (Mar 5)

  • Well, today was the first day in the classroom...from the start, everything was unexpected. Ji Hyeon and I got to school a little early - and as soon as we did, our MT let us know that instead of three 40-minute blocks with classes separated by grade level, we would be having one 2-hour block with grades 1-6. AHHH! We re-planned almost through lunch and then hurried back upstairs to try to beat our children...but they were already there! And one was about to get on my computer - I used my teacher voice to say "NO." The kids were pretty crazy throughout the 40 minutes we had them - testing us, I think. We ended up letting them all go after the first block (instead of keeping the 3rd-6th graders as we were advised) because we didn't have anything specific planned for the older kids and we were both done. The only thing I feel like I managed to teach was that I follow through - I made one kid pick up every tiny piece of plastic that he cut up and managed to communicate the threat of the time-out chair to another. Oy. Tomorrow's another day.

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