Don't these professors ever talk to each other Bob!! haha I have 4 tests in one week, I can handle the accounting and business because they are on 2 seperate days but Art history 2 and Child developement on the same day!!! UGH!! Oh well I guess thats what college is for---learning to deal with tough situations.
I have been going every afternoon to the after school program where I am doing my volunteer project. The kids are so great...I usually get the same little boy every day, he reads out loud to me to practice, then we do math or language arts, but then everyday we have a race...multiplication tables...they give the kids timed tests so every afternoon we forget about the clock and he races to see how many he can do before I get the entire page done! At first he had a hard time focusing because he was worried where I was but I have talked to him about focusing...tuning out the rest of the room...he has gone from 2 rows to my 6 to almost 3 1/2. Yippy!! I don't want to be a teacher but wow how awesome to know you can help a kid. He has been tossed around from home to home and is now living with his grandparents and his big brother. Man do they ever look out for each other. He's been having trouble because he was taken out of and English speaking house just as he was really picking up on his reading. They went to live in Mexico with their Dad and had to attend a spanish only speaking school. This week we read a book about a little boy from mexico that came here and it was so fun to see him feel for the kid in the story! And it was really great to see his face when I was able to dig down deep and find the few spanish sentences I have picked up along the way, and he got a real chuckle out of me remembering how to count to 10 in spanish from watching Seseme Street when I was a kid! haha Anyway he is a real treat to work with!!!
The weight loss has gone into a stall. I want to eat ever piece of sweet food I see and chips of any kind have to be locked down when I'm around lately! I think its a combination of stress and depression...I'm really trying to find my center again.
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