It's harder to update this thing than I thought it would be. It always feels like I have hardly any free-time now that I work all day and go to school at night three days a week. I started subbing at the high school, and it has been really good. I have worked mostly with middle school and elementary school kids in the past, and high school is so much easier. (At least the two high schools in this area anyway.) I'm surprised that the students haven't been giving me a harder time, I thought for sure they would be trying to take advantage of the fact that I'm a younger sub. A few times when I have subbed I gave the class work to do and they worked on it in almost complete silence for over half the period. It's been a bit harder subbing when it's a block schedule day at the high schools. Students seem really ready to get out of class after the first 40 or 50 minutes (the periods are 95 minutes) so that makes it a little hard. (I'm ready myself to move on to the next class after the first 40 or 50 minutes.) I have gotten to teach a few math lessons (I'm one of math subs for the district...maybe the only one...I'm not sure) and that has been a lot of fun. I have to study some of the stuff before class though to remember the material. I could barely remember how to graph conic sections (parabolas, ellipses, etc.) when I was subbing an Algebra II class.
School is not bad. I have to write an essay before every class practically, but it's not hard. I actually have to work really hard today on a 10-page paper that's due on Wednesday. I'm so busy during the week that there is pretty much no way I would be able to do this during the week. In all of my classes we have to set-up observations of teachers in action, and it's so annoying to set these up. I don't personally know any high school or middle school math teachers, so I have been contacting and observing teachers from my high school. It has been a little weird seeing my old teachers and observing them as an adult, but it has been really interesting too. I had a lot of good math teachers when I was in high school. Maybe I should contact some of my old middle school math teachers, I wonder if they would even remember me! Teachers are so busy, I feel like I'm really asking a lot to even just set-up an observation of them.
Last night Lulu and Tony came over and we went out to dinner at
Sonoma Chicken Coop. Gabe loves that place, I always have trouble finding something I really like there. I decided to try the personal pizza, it wasn't bad! After dinner we all went back to Gabe's and my place to play some Wii! Gabe bought a Wii about a month after they came out and he went out and bought a fancy flat-screen TV for it right after he got it...hehe. Our living room is really nice now. We got rid of a bunch of junk and bought a cool TV/media-center to help us organize our stuff. There is a lot more room in our living room now, which is ideal for Wii playing. (Even though Lulu totally slammed her finger in our new TV-center...poor Lulu!) It looks like this (our TV-stand, not Lulu's finger):
We played some intense rounds of Wii bowling and then tennis. We were all totally breaking a sweat when we were playing tennis. We played girls against boys and Lulu and I were having a hard time keeping up with Gabe and Tony. Gabe has played Wii tennis for soooo many hours by himself, I felt as though our skill levels were not equal! (I wish I ould put our Mii's up here, Tony's looks just like him!)
Then we played multi-player Wario-Ware. Gabe had to beat the game to unlock the multi player mode of the game so he was really good again, but I think we all did pretty well. The animations from that game are soooo random. Gabe and I have the DS version of the game, and it's just as random and fun!
Alright, I guess I better get started on my paper now, boo!
