This was my most challenging day thus far. Underwhelmed by the never ending series of clinics and workshops. Overwhelmed by the idea that on Monday, I will be standing in front of my own class of students. It doesn’t help that I planned a lesson with the wrong objective. These two elements together undoubtedly make…
read more »As expected, Institute is taking its toll on even my famously poor sleep habits. I’ve been going to bed at 3AM most nights or, 2AM when I am lucky and organized. When you wake up at 6AM every morning, that’s not a lot of sleep hours, and it really makes the rest of the day…
read more »We had a fire drill today! Or maybe a summer school student pulled the alarm. Not sure. Here is a picture of Dowling that I took while we were outside: ^ Dowling Middle School in Houston’s Sunnyside Neigborhood ^Me looking reeeeally goofy in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood. My hair is a mess in this humidity! I’ll…
read more »I am writing this on the bus to my first day at Dowling Middle School in Houston, where I will be working for the next 5 weeks in Institute. Houston is beautiful. So green, so big, so diverse! The Rice campus is very nice, and I was assigned a roomy single. Our morning routine is…
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I judge the majority of my success today based on the fact that I didn’t miss the 6:45 am bus to school. The ride honestly wasn’t that bad. As we by passed the bumper to bumper traffic on our route to North Houston, I was consoled at knowing that everyone on the bus was going…
read more »In five hours, my alarm clock will sound. At that time, I will pull myself out of bed filled with excitement and temerity knowing that Institute has finally begun. Outside of packing my brand new lunch box with copious amounts of snacks–which I will eat more out of nervousness than out of hunger–and a bus…
read more »So I have completed most of induction, and I am all packed up and ready to fly home to Hyde Park for a few days to graduate!* Induction basically consisted of getting to know our fellow corps members, past corps members, and TFA staff, participating in guided reflection on the coming 2 years, getting paperwork…
read more »That Davy Crockett and David Bowie died at the Alamo. Talk more after I pass my TExES.
read more »How excited am I? SO EXCITED! Today was so busy! I made it all the way to the end of my street before I remembered that I hadn’t gotten my SSC last night, but after that 3-minute setback we were on our way! I braved the hordes of fresh-faced corps members and got all of…
read more »You can try to plan for everything. I have tried to make sure that I am ready for this week for the past month, at the very least. And today has defeated me. Gen 4-8 exam this morning? Did not take. Why? Because even though we left 30 minutes early for a 40 minute…
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