Oh my! How picturesque!

Here's my school!! Long Middle School; or at least the front and right sides of it.









And here's the awesome Bevo Mills right next to the school: a giant windmill! I wish I could have gotten a frontal shot of it.

Kinda in shock still

So, I think I'm still in relative shock that I'm graduated, a Masters student, and going to be teaching full time.

I think I'm mostly in shock that a school chose me over someone else. I mean, don't they know that I'm not prepared to do this sort of job? Don't they know that I'm not experienced and that I'm completely unprepared to take on 150 children? That I'm disorganized and scatter-minded, and that half the time I have to bounce ideas off people in order to get a decent idea of what I'm doing? That I have no clue as to what names go along with what pedagogy strategies, and that I'm still lost when it comes to names of teaching strategists?

And yet... I came off as competent and smart enough to lead a classroom?

What in the hell was I thinking becoming a teacher? And what were they thinking when they took me in?

Hmmm....

So, this is my official teaching journal. I'm a little nervous to see what I end up writing as a result of this; will it be positive? Self-bashing? We'll see.

I'm pretty nervous!