So once again, I am the worst. I am so bad at blogging. Sorry.
However, in my defense, I have been really busy! I have officially finished half of my student teaching and I aced my midterm evaluation! I have also been pretty sick so that also took over my life for a bit. But that is not the crazy pat of my life that I need to work out and tell you all about in this post.
My original plan for this winter was simple; there was no plan. If anything I was just going to plan my volunteer trip to go teach English in a developing nation. I didn't even know how much time I would spend in Pittsburgh versus Maryland. Also my only plan for Spring was to sometime go to a developing nation to teach English. However, all of my plans have now changed and I am being forced to plan everything up until summer. This is all happening because of a single email. ugh.
First things first, I will no longer be going to Thailand or Africa to teach English as a volunteer. Instead I will be in Pittsburgh for as much of winter and spring as possible since I received several opportunities to continue working at the Carnegie Museums in their education department. Not going to a developing nation and spending all of my money will allow me to actually spend my time making money and will allow for more smaller trips. Boyfriend and I are even thinking of going South for a little while this winter and I really want to go to Prague sometime in the summer either this year or next. After talking to my Dad as well I think that the CMNH will look even better on a resume than teaching English abroad. Now I just need to figure out where I will be and when this Winter so that I can create a work schedule. Trouble is Boyfriend doesn't know when his winter break is so I can't plan when we would go on our trip. My brain is just spazzing out this week and I know it doesn't look so complicated when I write everything down like this but coming to this decision and starting to plan my life has been scary and confusing. Yet at the same time I am excited about actually having a plan and having an income!
Other notable things in my life: Running is going well and I think I'm starting to notice a difference in my body. At least I looked in the mirror today and actually liked the look of my legs. Student teaching is obviously going well but that will also get a lot more stressful soon as I start my TPA which is where I have to video tape myself teaching to prove to the state that I can actually teach and I don't just take tests well.
Hopefully I'll post more frequently from now on. I'll try not to be too horrible at it at least.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
I'm the Worst.
Ok. I admit it. I am like the worst blogger in existence. It has taken me THREE WEEKS to write this post and I have no excuse. Literally I've just been watching Netflix and shit. However, I have also been keeping up with my running schedule and I've been grading a lot more papers.
Student Teaching update: So I'm really happy with how everything is going so far. I have taken over two out of four classes and maybe over the next week or so I will work up to taking over all four. The students seem to really like me and they don't think that I'm really old which is nice because sometimes I feel like a grumpy old lady talking about the "youths" and their crazy trends. On the topic of not being old though I have decided that my teaching wardrobe is still not as awesome as I want it to be. But that may be due to the fact that I feel like I have a stronger fall/winter wardrobe than a summer one and also Fashion Week is making me feel inadequate. I did take some pictures of my teaching outfits but I didn't like any of the pictures; either my outfit wasn't interesting enough or I wasn't happy about how I looked in the picture.
Healthy update: I have actually been going to the gym! This is a really great achievement for me since I am so bad at forcing myself to go. I think having a running schedule has been helping me to go as I don't want to get behind. I'm still working on the whole healthy diet part of my life but I haven't been buying any snack food and I think that has helped. Overall though, I am feeling really great and I even feel like I look like I have lost a few pounds which is good since I have not invited at least 10 lbs to my brothers wedding next summer. I really want to look great in the wedding photos so that I don't feel self-conscious about them and also so I feel confident on the day of. Being best man is stressful and I only want to worry about how funny my speech is, not how I look in my dress!
Life update: Over Labor Day weekend I went to visit boyfriend in Pittsburgh! It was really great. He even took me to the absolute best fancy little Italian restaurant. I literally felt like I had been transported back to Rome and it made me so happy and sad at the same time that I wanted to cry. Due to this emotion I have told boyfriend that at some point we will have to go on a trip to Italy. I may have already started planning out where we should go... But honestly, if I could live in Europe and travel to Italy at least once a year I think I would be really happy. And boyfriend isn't opposed to the idea of moving to Europe since they have lots of grant money for science where as grants are becoming much harder to get in America. On the subject of traveling though, I am thinking about going abroad to teach English in a developing nation for three months in the Winter/Spring. Right now I think the top contender is Thailand. It would be really amazing and look great on my teaching resume!
My newest thing to stress over: Where I'm going for Thanksgiving? Back to DC or stay in Ohio with boyfriend? Granted boyfriend hasn't invited me to Thanksgiving yet but he came to DC last year so I'm assuming I might get an invite to stay this year. I should probably just ask him about it but i don't want to stress him out too early either. And yes, I do realize that my decision process is completely chaotic and giving me anxiety over the smallest things for no good reason.
Student Teaching update: So I'm really happy with how everything is going so far. I have taken over two out of four classes and maybe over the next week or so I will work up to taking over all four. The students seem to really like me and they don't think that I'm really old which is nice because sometimes I feel like a grumpy old lady talking about the "youths" and their crazy trends. On the topic of not being old though I have decided that my teaching wardrobe is still not as awesome as I want it to be. But that may be due to the fact that I feel like I have a stronger fall/winter wardrobe than a summer one and also Fashion Week is making me feel inadequate. I did take some pictures of my teaching outfits but I didn't like any of the pictures; either my outfit wasn't interesting enough or I wasn't happy about how I looked in the picture.
Healthy update: I have actually been going to the gym! This is a really great achievement for me since I am so bad at forcing myself to go. I think having a running schedule has been helping me to go as I don't want to get behind. I'm still working on the whole healthy diet part of my life but I haven't been buying any snack food and I think that has helped. Overall though, I am feeling really great and I even feel like I look like I have lost a few pounds which is good since I have not invited at least 10 lbs to my brothers wedding next summer. I really want to look great in the wedding photos so that I don't feel self-conscious about them and also so I feel confident on the day of. Being best man is stressful and I only want to worry about how funny my speech is, not how I look in my dress!
Life update: Over Labor Day weekend I went to visit boyfriend in Pittsburgh! It was really great. He even took me to the absolute best fancy little Italian restaurant. I literally felt like I had been transported back to Rome and it made me so happy and sad at the same time that I wanted to cry. Due to this emotion I have told boyfriend that at some point we will have to go on a trip to Italy. I may have already started planning out where we should go... But honestly, if I could live in Europe and travel to Italy at least once a year I think I would be really happy. And boyfriend isn't opposed to the idea of moving to Europe since they have lots of grant money for science where as grants are becoming much harder to get in America. On the subject of traveling though, I am thinking about going abroad to teach English in a developing nation for three months in the Winter/Spring. Right now I think the top contender is Thailand. It would be really amazing and look great on my teaching resume!
My newest thing to stress over: Where I'm going for Thanksgiving? Back to DC or stay in Ohio with boyfriend? Granted boyfriend hasn't invited me to Thanksgiving yet but he came to DC last year so I'm assuming I might get an invite to stay this year. I should probably just ask him about it but i don't want to stress him out too early either. And yes, I do realize that my decision process is completely chaotic and giving me anxiety over the smallest things for no good reason.
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