First Two Days of School and Other Thoughts

I am exhausted.

I have completed my first two days of student teaching now and it is crazy. I must be crazy for wanting to teach as my profession but aside from all of the crazy it has already shown to be extremely rewarding. I'm so happy that I am on my way to becoming a teacher and that I seem to have a great group of students for the next three months. Yet all of this is also forcing me to think about the future. Am I ready to be a teacher? On my own? It's a really scary concept. Basically, once student teaching is over I will be a proper adult, with a real job and everything. It makes my head spin. It also makes me think about what I will be doing directly after finishing student teaching. Will I go back to Pittsburgh and move in with Boyfriend or do I go back to Maryland with my family and work until the holidays and then go back to Pittsburgh? So many options!

Some other things that I have been considering are running a Thanksgiving marathon with my Dad and posting my teacher fashion on here. I'll probably do the marathon; I even went to the gym today! (Gasp!) But for real, a marathon will be pretty good motivation for me to exercise more, and I definitely need to. Maybe I'll also log my weight successes and failures on here too. I've already lost a little weight since May but I want to lose quite a bit more. Especially since my brother's wedding is coming up next year and I need to not look like a whale in my dress/in the pictures. But back to teacher fashion. I think it's pretty difficult to look professional but still youthful (I'm only 22). I want to look chic and fun but most of the "professional" clothes I try on at the stores make me look like a stereotypical English boarding school headmistress and I am not down for that. But I think I have found some good pieces and combos and it might be fun to share them on here every week or so.

Still confused. :/

-Kate

First Post... Lame title, I know.

With this post I want to introduce this blog and myself. My name is Kate. I am a 22 year old college grad who has returned to my old college campus to complete my student teaching and thus become a certified middle/high school teacher. So why am I starting this blog?

I feel like I am living in limbo and trying to avoid a quarter-life crisis.

Despite having a college degree and being on track to be certified for a great career, I feel like my life is in shambles. School starts on Monday and I finish mid-November. Where am I going to go in three months? Where am I going to live? What am I going to do with my life? How will I get money? All of these questions and more have been driving me crazy and I just need a place to organize my thoughts let alone my life. Therefore I decided to write this blog and name it after one of my favorite books, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. My hope is that writing about my life in such a public space will inspire me to live a more adventurous life as well as get my shit together because both things really need to happen.