This month I have been able to have a wonderful experience. It is called a Practicum experience and is like short-term student teaching. I have been in Mrs. Schilder's second grade classroom. I spend all day there except for two days a week when I leave at 12:30 to get to class on time. It is so fun! The only bad part about it is I have to leave at 7 in the morning and I do not like waking up early. Other than that it is wonderful! I love the students, I love learning how to teach, I love the school, I love teaching lessons, I love messing up and finding things to work on, I love planning lessons even! I know planning lessons will not be fun for long but I love it not for that reason, but because I love teaching! I'm so glad I've found the right place for me to be.
Here is a little update as to my future. I have applied for an Internship. If accepted, I will have my own elementary classroom starting this Fall. I would finish all of my college classes by August then work as a teacher for the whole school year. I would still technically be a student of BYU and will have to be observed several times and things like that but I could be receiving half salary and get a head start on a teaching career! I interview for this in two weeks and will find out within that week, so stay tuned! The other option, if I am not accepted for this Internship program is to work two jobs for the summer to save money, then take classes from September until December. Starting in January I would do my student teaching and I have the option of either staying here in Utah, going to Texas or going to Washington D.C. for that. I would totally choose D.C. but I also have to apply for that. I would rather get accepted for an Internship but that's not up to me I guess, so we'll see!
That's basically it for what's going on in life, but it's amazing and I love it!
Love It!
Ok, so I go to BYU, for those of you who may have forgotten. BYU just so happens to have an AWESOME men's basketball team this year. Currently they are ranked #3 in the nation. We also have... wait for it... Jimmer Fredette. He's a pretty big deal. All-time leading scorer for BYU, all-time leader for 3-pointers, leading scorer for ncaa men's basketball, and just an inspiringly good basketball player. Plus his name is fun for saying things like, "Fredette about it!" Anyway, the last six games have been sold out, so it is a big deal to go to games because Jimmer and the rest of the awesome team are such a privilege to watch. I went to their last home game of the season today. It was awesome. We had been prepped beforehand for this, but watch this dance, it's what the student section did during a timeout during the second half of this game. I am among those students kind of, I am at the very top. It was so fun!!! So here is my ode to men's basketball.
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