Today was: GOOD!

Yeah, despite the fact that one of the girls in the class BARFED on the rug in the afternoon (the kids must have been served ravioli or lasagna for lunch today...), today was a really good one.

Miles and I decided to have "sit down and talk" time on Wednesday afternoons, so he and I talked for a good hour after school today. I told him to be brutally honest about what he notices that I could work on professionally - he said that there really wasn't anything that he could think of that I was doing wrong. He mentioned that he likes that I'm even-tempered (actually, I think he used the word "calm"), and I said that I wish that I had more energy like him. Grass is greener and all that, eh?

So, I'm not really feeling all that verbose at the moment, and as such, I'm going to exercise my "Right to Pass" (it's a Tribes thing - see the link from a couple of days ago...) and keep it pretty short today. Honestly, there really isn't all that much to report today, anyway. I'm really getting SO MUCH more out of this experience than I could've imagined, and SO MUCH more than I got the first time around in Indiana (I'm thinking about devoting most of Friday's space to my 1993 Student Teaching experience). EVERY DAY I get an insight into something else - and all of this adds up to the realization of just how much really goes into teaching. Honestly, it's SO MUCH MORE than most people would imagine - so many components, so many different things to juggle at once, so much energy expended working with 20 kids everyday, so much politics - it's really exhausting. I'm pretty much to the point already where I don't dread going everyday (I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily EXCITED every morning yet...), but I'm still glad that tomorrow is Thursday - the end of my week...