During this busy week I've had a lot of thoughts that I've yet to communicate to people, so...here I go!
hopes
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Today a student asked me, "Miss, are you mean?"
To which I responded, "Do you think I'm mean?"
"No, but teachers are different in the summer."
This got me thinking about the kind of teacher I want to become in September. I don't want to be the teacher who constantly yells and I don't want to be the teacher who gets stepped on by her class. I want to exude confidence even though my heart will probably be beating like crazy.
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A dear mentor of mine has a Confucius quote at the end of her e-mails that I fell in love with. "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." That is what I want. I don't mind if the job I love is one that requires a lot of me. If every morning I can look forward to the day ahead, then I'm golden. Here's hoping I find that in my lifetime...
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I'm an inquisitive person. Since I've arrived in NY I've had tons of time to ask a lot of questions. Hopefully the answers I seek will come in loud and clear.
blessings
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I am blessed to have healthy relationships with the fam. We can talk about anything; I love it.
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I may not know what it's like to have a biological sister, but I am blessed to have girlfriends who feel like family. I can call these womyn after weeks of no contact and pick up right where we left off. We've celebrated accomplishments, we've weathered the storms, we've survived the transitions from childhood to adolescence and are now seeing each other into adulthood (btw I am not ready to call myself an adult).
ridiculousness
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I am a minority. I have never been so keenly aware that I am until I got here.
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In the past 5.5 weeks I have experienced two instances of ignorance that really made me feel uncomfortable. I don't want to get too into them, but one involved a reference to the model minority and the other included an insinuation that I may infect someone with SARS. wtf
Don't worry, a much more coherent post will come later
1 comment:
hi kristine! :)
i'm enjoying readin your blog. in regards to thinking about the kind of teacher you want to be-- i got a good word this past year. often times, beginning teachers are hoping to be a teacher their students like. (i sure feel this esp when i first walk into a room of students!) but the ones that really last are the ones that students love, but may not like all the time. sound simple, but that love can be both a gentle and tough thing. i am certain you'll shine.
enjoy & blessings on the rest of your year. may first year teaching be a joy <3
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