It may seem as if I've fallen off the face of the Earth for a while, but I assure you I haven't, it's just been a rather busy February! I started off the month with quickly finding out I had to take my middle school endorsement class early than I expected...summer was always the plan. The university I went through changed their program/course set-up and they were no longer offering this class until next fall...and my district needed me to have it completed by the end of this summer. So, I had no choice but to take it right away before the university changed their program over starting the end of February. "YAY" I was "sooo excited" to find out this is what I had to do. It was an online class and a full semester course but shrunk to fit into 3 weeks. Let me tell you that is REALLY HARD to do as a student. Not to mention, I'm also working on my Master's right now and I have a semester long class shrunk to fit into 8 weeks, so that too is fast paced. So I had both of that on my plate at once AND teaching full-time - which, as I said earlier, was not expected to all be done at the same time - that's what summer is for!!
I spent very, very extensive hours working daily on my 3 week course, all weekends, and honestly did nothing else. Let's just say I'm thankful I don't have kids right now because I would have been the worst mom ever those 3 weeks!
I just finished it last week and "ahhh" (sigh of relief) - I DID IT and survived to talk about it! ...And tell you all that I never hope I have to do something like that again...at least during the school year!
Another problem I have is that I am somewhat of an "over-achiever" and I just don't know how to half-ass something, haha, I just don't know how!! So, I did end up getting a 100% in my 3 week class and I'm pretty sure I'll get an A in my current grad class I've been in during this month. Proud of myself but I wish I had a little bit of "slacker" in me because a B would have been just fine and probably not as stressful. Maybe one day I'll learn how to not have to get A's, ha!
SO - that's where I've been all month - locked in the office, not on updating my blog. Boo!!
And now I'm consumed with 124 pillowcases to grade! I LOVE how their pillowcases turn out, but it is time consuming to grade that many. It's enjoyable, just very monotonous after the first few. And once that is just about done then I start my final trimester of the school year - exciting but - eek, gotta get all that stuff in order real soon!!
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