Tales from a substitute teacher...

So first, my apologies to Greg (and everyone else)! Not only have I not blogged in forever, I haven't even read anyone else's blog in forever. Life is definitely a little crazy these days. I haven't been online much in the evenings, I haven't talked to friends on the phone much, and I haven't been frequenting my websites :(

This week, I was blessed to realize (yet again) how much I want to be a teacher. I subbed Monday for an 8th Grade Earth Science class at Willow Creek. I am not so much loving middle school, but it was a big deal for me to go to a school I haven't been at before. Tuesday brought about subbing for an art teacher at Riverside. I had one class not show up, that was cool. Haha :) It was a pretty good day though.

Then, on Wednesday and Thursday, I got to sub for my favorite classes EVER. And I do mean EVER! I was at Century subbing for the choir teacher. Man, I cannot say enough how much I love being there. I would like to recount how I ended up subbing there the first time. It was back on September 11th. I hadn't gotten a single subbing job to that point. I was a total wreck, completely freaking out. I remember that it was really late at night and I saw it pop up on the website. I was talking to Laura on MSN and I mentioned it to her. The job was only going to be from 9:00 to 10:30. She told me to suck it up and take it. That I'd have fun. And even if I didn't, I'd be home before lunch :)

Well, I obviously took it. I was really only there for Treble Choir. I got to meet Lucy (the student director of that choir) and talk to Laurie (the accompanist who used to be my piano teacher). I had a pretty good time. I realized that it wasn't too stressful because the teacher has student directors for all the choirs. So two days later, when I got called to go for the whole day, I went back.

It's weird to think about the first few times I subbed there. I would just sit in the choir office during open hours and read my book. I used to be able to finish a whole book in a day because there was so much open time. Now, I don't get any reading done :) During every open hour, there are kids in the room. I'm usually talking to them. I've had so much fun getting to know some of them and honestly, I think it's helping me with the whole being shy thing.

There is always something to laugh about. Katie and I have some good times in Panther Choir. "She took my lolli!" Oh man, good times :) And Lucy and I have gotten to have some great talks too. It's so much fun being back at the school that I went to. Next time, I might just have to bring my high school scrapbook. A few of them have had one of my friends from high school as an English teacher. I bet I have some good pictures of us :)

So yeah, that's why I haven't blogged in a while. But life is good. And I feel so blessed right now. Yay for subbing!

Today's Tidbit: I got to go to the Owatonna Choir Concert last night and it was amazing! Congrats to Laura, Matt, Amanda, Anna, Travis, and anyone else I'm missing :)