Ms.O

Today in my favorite class (Teaching with the arts) a fancy actor guy came and talked about incorporating drama in the classroom (although it felt like he was trying to give us all heart attacks with his activites, lol). He had us stand in a line and gave us a prompt and we had to think of things on the spot.
"What are you going to have your students call you when you're a teacher?"

"Ms. O."

Earlier in the class we had to introduce ourselves and say a few things and after trying to speak up to the best of my abilities, he stopped me...THREE TIMES and told me to project. "Was that ANY louder?" he would say. Haha....well according to him, I'm going to suck as a teacher!

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Other "teacher-esque" news is that I dropped my ESOL/bilingual endorsement and am just sticking with the ESOL endorsement. Basically I am teaching the same kids, but in English, not in Spanish. This is the more common endorsement, but it is still more in demand and starting to be required in some areas.
However, I do want to get the bilingual endorsement eventually, probably after I live in another country for a while. It's hard for me to communicate clearly anymore in Spanish, and it would just be too much stress that I don't need next year on top of student teaching (stressful in and of itself!) But I am just as excited for teaching in English....after all, language doesn't matter in the end!

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I have SIX weeks left at Charis...ever! Such a weird feeling.......
I feel ready but also have started feeling the sadness of that too...I know it won't really hit me 'till later!
Next year I am moving out with one of my friends Kristin (Tin Tin) and her friend Shannon. We are looking for a little house to rent out....should be fun! A few things I'm looking forward to:
-getting a kitty ;)
-decorating and making art for the walls
-having a room just for music/prayer/art/etc.
-cooking and baking
-quietness for studying
-neighbor kids...Hispanic neighbor kids? :)
-having a garden/yard

There's a slight chance now that I may not get to student teach in Corvallis, but it's still pretty likely.

Well, that's it for now! Constantly busy with this term...ahh...

Susannah