My roommate Cherith's parents also live/work at the school and yesterday was her mother's birthday! To celebrate Cherith baked her two chocolate cakes and we hosted a party (our first apartment party!) in honor of her special day. Cherith's family as well as three other families and a few teachers all came over. We enjoyed the delicious cakes and played some great games. Her mother is Very competitive and, not surprisingly, her team won both games! We had a blast hosting but all three of us agreed it was more work than we anticipated...but we are looking forward to/kind of already planning our opportunity to host!!
School starts in less than a week and I am starting to feel the pressure! Most of the day I walk around thinking "I can't possibly have my own classroom. I don't know what to do!" In reality, I know that's not true. I had a great professors/mentors in college and I truly believe I trained under one of DeWitt's best! I CAN do this!
Part of the problem stems from the fact that my teaching teammates all have a few years experience. Which is wonderful!! They will be/are great mentors to follow and learn from. But I keep comparing myself to them...which is not okay! Their excitement for more and new ideas is overwhelming me.
The other part of the problem is that I haven't been honest in telling them that I am overwhelmed by their questions and over-achieverness (yes I made up a word...its my blog!). I have been bottling up my fears and angst and today I almost reached the point of a blow-up...or break down. Either way, not what I want!!!
I had quite a bit of time to work in my classroom this afternoon and felt much better after that. I still feel like I have weeks of work to do and only a few days to complete it in....
My plan is to make it through the week with lots of deep breaths, tons of prayers, and a trust that everything will get done! And perhaps a small dose of honesty and grace too.
School starts in less than a week and I am starting to feel the pressure! Most of the day I walk around thinking "I can't possibly have my own classroom. I don't know what to do!" In reality, I know that's not true. I had a great professors/mentors in college and I truly believe I trained under one of DeWitt's best! I CAN do this!
Part of the problem stems from the fact that my teaching teammates all have a few years experience. Which is wonderful!! They will be/are great mentors to follow and learn from. But I keep comparing myself to them...which is not okay! Their excitement for more and new ideas is overwhelming me.
The other part of the problem is that I haven't been honest in telling them that I am overwhelmed by their questions and over-achieverness (yes I made up a word...its my blog!). I have been bottling up my fears and angst and today I almost reached the point of a blow-up...or break down. Either way, not what I want!!!
I had quite a bit of time to work in my classroom this afternoon and felt much better after that. I still feel like I have weeks of work to do and only a few days to complete it in....
My plan is to make it through the week with lots of deep breaths, tons of prayers, and a trust that everything will get done! And perhaps a small dose of honesty and grace too.
How did I miss that you have a blog? This is great! And thanks for the comment about me (at least I like to think it was). I think of you all the time and I'm bragging to everyone that you are in Morocco!
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