"learning differences"

I feel like I learn new things every day. Being still in school, after all these years sometimes I get cocky, thinking I know it all, and there is nothing left to teach me. I can't believe I admitted that one out loud... :) However, every single day I sit in my classes absorbing it all like a dry sponge. I feel like my perspective shifts every day. Yesterday we learned about people who have learning differences. Dyslexia, and other learning "disabilities." My perspective shifted when I realized that just because someone doesn't learn the same way as most people in a classroom, doesn't mean they don't have the scholastic potential everyone else does have. As a teacher, my responsibility will not only be to believe in all of my students, but to provide them with the abilities and tools they will need in the future. It's exciting really. The stuff they teach us these days.

30

Yesterday I got to talking to a mother of some of the kids at the after school program. She is turning 30 in a few months and said she's really freaking out about it. It got me to thinking. If I turned thirty this year, I'd really freak out too. The health class I am in required me to fill out a survey on health. One of the questions was, "Are you comfortable with growing old?" Honestly, as happy as I am right now, there are a lot of things I want to do with my life before I am "old." So I decided to make a list for myself a few years ahead. Some guidelines to live by so that by the time I am a few months away from turning 30, I will not be in freak out mode. I will be in, "My life is great mode." Here goes...

- Before I turn 30

Healthy - Habits

· Exercise

· Scriptures

· Prayer

· FHE

· Healthy Food

Money

· Live within means

House

· Downstairs bathroom

· Flooring

· Organize Pantry

· Bedroom Closet

· Spare Room organized

School & Career

· GRADUATE

· Get a Job (Work as an elementary school teacher)

FAMILY

· a Kid?

· Have fun with Russ all the days

Travel

· Euro-trip

· Florida (family)

· Idaho (family)

· CA (Disneyland) (Russ' grandparents)

Want to:

· Learn to sew

· Learn to cook more yummy/healthy things

· Keep my house clean and organized

· Keep in contact with my best friends and family

· Hike

· Stay active in the church

o I get to work with the Beehives right now, and I am LOVING it. I hope I still get to be with them for a few more years!

sChoOl bEgiNs aGaIN

It's school. Level 2 at Weber State. I am loving it... I feel like last semester was Kindergarten though, and this is fifth grade. Yikes. There is a lot of work ahead, but I'm up for it. I realize that if I would have just figured out I wanted to teach from day 1 at College, I'd be teaching for a while now. na ja. It's been a fun journey to this major. HOpefully I will be teaching Fall 2011. My sister Cecilia has transferred to Weber State and is also in the Ed program. We even have a class together. Most of my favorite Weber State memories have to do with my sister. We took some classes together a few years ago (we've both been to other universities since then) and I never loved a class more. So this semester is expected to be AWESOME.