First week of October down- 3 more to go.

So, it's been awhile.

I am a 4th grade reading teacher. Who knew such a simple sentence could pack so much power. I have 20 students.

Let me rephrase, I have 3 classes of 20 students. That's not too bad. 60 nine year-olds all day, everyday is not the worst thing. Some other teachers I know have it way worse; like my roommate, but I won't elaborate.

Miami is great. I'm running more. I run every week at least 3 times, one of which usually ran on South Beach. My best time is 34 minutes non-stop. That's remarkable seeing as running from my couch to my bed was the most running I've seen since high school.

I don't drive very much here. I bike/walk everywhere. It's great. This girl really does have a place down on Biscayne. Sometimes it's the simple things in life really.

A couple of weeks ago I suffered from high spending induced by extreme levels of stress. In one weekend I purchased roundtrip tickets to New York City, Les Mis show tickets, tickets to see Toby Keith in concert, and lots of alcohol. I'm missing out a few key purchases I'm sure but, like I said, it was brought on by high levels of stress.

As far as teaching is concerned I have come to the realization that I need to be comfortable with the fact that I do not know what I am doing. Plain and simple. Most people go to school for years to learn how to teach children. For those that are unaware (and also unfamiliar with context clues) I am not included in that group of people.

However, I do feel like this is where I'm supposed to be. Am I going to be teaching for the rest of my life? No. Am I going to make it until next Friday? Chances are slim. For the most part, I feel like the meme below:

All joking aside, I'm trying to get better everyday and, if anything, those kids are teaching me more than I am them- so at least some learning is happening in my classroom, even if it's not by the students.

This was a poor attempt of trying to incorporate memes into my entries but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Hopefully I become more frequent with my journal entries, I feel like I have so much more to say but not enough time to record it. Hopefully things will change when I get my new iphone 5 in!


Until next time,

RTIII