Well, the new year is HERE. Crazy. I have never been so busy in my entire life and I am exhausted! I wake up at 5:45 in the AM!!! I have never done that in my life. My classes are.. okay. I can't say that I am a fan of 12th graders, but I think it would be a lot more challenging to teach the junior high school kiddos. I just can't get them to speak up! Granted, a lot of them really don't understand to analyze poetry and that is all I have been doing for the past 2 years. It just amazes me how much they DON'T care about their grades and how much they really don't participate in school/class.
I have done some fun lessons though. In my 12th grade class, I am teaching Chinese & Japanese poetry and showed some clips from The Karate Kid (the original and best one.) I just feel burned out already and it has only been 2 weeks.
I am not working right now.. I can't decide if it good. I feel like I work, but I don't get a paycheck. Student teaching is really legal slavery.
Anthony is super busy too. He is working at FedEx and getting all of his requirements done for medical school. He has to shadow a physician for about 120 hours and get 40 hours of clinical hours (being around sick people) before June. And these hours can't be combined! During the next 6 weeks he will be shadowing an orthopedic surgeon at Timpanogos Hospital. He loves it so far. He learns all this cool stuff and gets advice from the 'inside.' We learned that doctors don't start making money until about the 22nd day of the month because they have so many bills. (Lab fees, payroll, insurance, equipment payments... etc.) This insight gave me a little more compassion to the fees that doctors charge. They have to make some monies! He is also doing mentoring for 4H. This goes to his volunteering category. He mentors a 10 year old Mexican boy named Oscar. Apparently he is the BOMB. haha. Anthony likes him a lot. Each week they go and do something fun like play tennis, basketball, go to the rec. center, go to Nicklecade... Just fun stuff. Anthony is going to be very well-rounded on his application to med school!
Overall, we are busy little B's. (Browns.) And I can't wait to graduate and go from there. I may not even teach. I may want a change of pace and go in a different direction. Scuba instructor? Who knows. Whatever gets my mind off West Lake High School works for me. (Yes, I had a bad week.)
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Thanks for the update! Glad its you teaching those kids and not me! I would end up hurting them.
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