i always claimed that auburn was about the hottest place on earth. i was sadly mistaken. its currently 97 degrees in the lovely city of houston, and it feels like 105. i've been running this week at around 5 o clock in the afternoon and it brings new meaning to the word humid. however, running is how i am keeping my sanity. i also just joined the university of houston gym, which is about the nicest thing i've ever seen in my life. to compare it to the auburn student act would be like comparing george w. bush's state of the union to president obama's. its ridiculous.
i got placed in the school that is furthest from the university campus, so that means our bus departs at 6:15 am. so i'm up at about 5:30 every morning and we get back around 5 in the afternoon. usually go for a quick run, dinner, and then work til anywhere from 10 to 12. i guess that is what is to be expected if you are learning how to teach in five weeks though.
to clarify, however, i love it here. there are moments i'm completely overwhelmed. but those moments have been few and far between. despite the stressful schedule, life is good. the other corps members are awesome and keep me going.
monday i actually start teaching, which makes me insanely nervous. i am teaching sixth grade social studies this summer, and the principal accidently "let it slip" to all the sixth graders that their "new teachers" had never been in the classroom before. the students wrote notes to us, one of the notes a fellow corps member received said "i don't care what you have to say. i don't like school. don't mess with me or i will get buck on you." so yeah, that freaked me out. we also watched a video of a tfa first year corps member last year at institute whose class was the most out of control thing i have ever seen. i thirteen year old girl, wearing large sunglasses shouted "blah blah blah" as the teacher tried to explain the rules and asked the teacher "do you know who i am?" so yeah, it made me nervous. i've convinced myself that i can handle it though. i've already signed a couple of people up for this, but if anybody would like to send me an encouraging text message around 11 o clock monday morning, it would be very helpful. haha.
i took that danged praxis test this morning and it was hard hard hard. i hope beyond hope that i passed. its questionable. so TONIGHT is the first night in a week and a half that i can relax and SLEEP PAST 6 O CLOCK TOMORROW. sadly for joel osteen i don't think i'll be making it to see him preach in the morning. i am determined to see the show at some point while i'm here though. i'm about to go out with some people for a wonderfully relaxing night of no work and, with all apologies to mee-maw and others of the like, a beer will never have tasted so good. i feel as if i've made this experience sound depressing, its really not. i love it so far. just stressful. thanks so much for all the thoughts and prayers. gotta go. peace.
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