Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Settling In

The initial hustle and bustle of the semester has faded.  I've successfully been to all of my classes and managed to get the general feel of the kind of effort necessary for success this Spring.  I've really been enjoying my education classes.  The Urban/Multicultural cohort has been a great fit for my personality, but I think one reason is that the professors have been so amazing.  I finally escaped from the mass chaos that is the department of Arts&Sciences and realized my motivation levels have perked up along with my interest in class.  Going into the schools last week was an amazing experience.  I was with 2nd grade teacher Rebecca Tipton, and she just lifted my spirits with her encouragement.  Her class adores her and rightfully so.  She is obsessed with Australia and there are literally over 200 stuffed kangaroos in this little prefab.  Her gentle approach to dealing with her students takes an incredible amount of patience and determination.  I feel so blessed to be able to work and learn beside her for these next two weeks.  
I'm pretty pumped about having a blog...even if I'm still trying to figure out to use it.  Bless you, Bill, you've got a tough job getting this old African to master the world wide web.

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