My dad’s Bruce Lee

For some reason I always choose song lyrics as the subjects of my blogs. I think it gives KatenessNU a little pizazz, don’t ya think? Heh.

So yesterday was my last day of observation and I really am going to miss all the kids. One of the little girls rubbed my arm and said “Miss Katie, I’m gonna miss you. You smell so good, too.” She is so cute and really all of them are in their own ways. I understand that these are the kids that don’t do so hot in school hence the fact they are at summer school, but how can you not love all of them to pieces? The teacher I observed told me if I ever wanted to come back by all means, do! She was really nice and made me feel welcome. She was also good at answering my questions and I am really leaning towards wanting to teach first grade.

Aside from my last day at observing, I’ve been studying non-stop for my midterm that is tonight! Out of 150 questions, I only missed 18 which most were because I wasn’t paying attention to my mom reading them out loud. Yes, my mom DOES rock that much to read all 150 questions and their multiple choice answers to me to help me cram for my test. I was surprised at all the ones I knew without her even having to read the answer. The professor assigned a new paper/project which is really easy. It’s basically a sandwich report in which we have to color all the layers and then fill out the information on it. I really love the way he takes our assignments and put them into mediums we can use in our own classrooms. He is really creative and has given me so many ideas for my future classroom. I think I’m doing really well in this class even though I will miss two days of class but that isn’t worrying me so much right now.

My other two classes, Art Appreciation and English 1102 are going pretty good, too. I had to submit a paragraph in art on how Van Gogh used line as an element in his Night Cafe painting. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I’m also writing a research paper in English on the Lost Boys of Sudan and so far I think it’s going great as well. I chose to do my topics as in what we should learn from the Lost Boys of Sudan and that is that if they went through everything they did and didn’t fall apart, Americans shouldn’t give up in our current state either. I really wanted to relate it to our current economic recession and how a lot of people are giving up because lack of jobs, food, shelter, etc. The Lost Boys story is truly inspirational and if they could go through that as kids and make it to the other side hell, we shouldn’t be complaining. On their trek of over 1,000 miles I don’t think I would have made it. That’s a long way to walk and doing so without water/food or any adults, my hat is so off to them.

I need to get back to studying now. One last look through and I will be okay I think. I also want to take my quiz for Art and do some research for my English paper. Yes, I’m the mistress of juggling subjects all at once! So until then, later lovelies and thanks for the comments! I’ll return them in a few!