Graduation is..... near

12 more days... this is what i have been telling myself for way over a week now. just 12 more days and then the rest of my life. these next three weeks are probably going to be the slowest of my life because i just want them to be over with. i am tired (even after a week off), i am anxious and frankly, i am sick of student teaching. everyone tells you (including my mentors) that student teaching sucks and it really is the worst part of the whole teaching experience and i can now honestly say that i agree with them.

this whole experience has been a good one. i had my doubts about if i would be a good teacher or not before student teaching, but after teaching for 6 or 7 weeks now i know that i can be a good teacher. not sure that i want to start teaching right away or if i want to do it the rest of my life, but i definitely want to teach for some portion of my life and can see me being successful at it. maybe i can get into coaching and athletics or maybe even counseling at some point.

ok - enough with the career goals. in the immediate future, i want to have a real fun summer. that means lots of tigers games, trips to harbor, camping, going to the beach and hitting up some of the bars in the zoo. hopefully all of these things can be accomplished before the fall arrives.

who knows if i'll have a job by then and if i don't, hey another year in the zoo couldn't hurt? i was in no rush to graduate; why should i be in any rush in starting the next phase? some of the teachers at school say that sometimes taking a year off is the best thing to do - i should take that advice.

alright - enough of this for tonight. hopefully i will write some more in here this summer.