1.) Settled in with complete independence
2.) Dated someone for a while and lost my VL card... but it didn't work out
3.) Got a new job
4.) Found out about what I have to do to certify to be a teacher in Texas
5.) Became an official teacher with a salary paying job and all
Number 1: I am now no longer paying my parents for anything and they are not paying for anything of mine. I have all my own bills and benefits. It is a wonderful feeling! Although I have to tell you that it is depressing to see all my money disappear so quickly when all those bills are due at the end of every month...yay adulthood...lol.
Number 2: I am going to be brief on this one because I don't want a drama filled blog. Pretty much I started dating this really great guy at the beginning of the summer but things just didn't feel right so we decided it was best to break it off. If you want to know more you will just have to ask me...
Number 3: As I was working my nanny job the school that I worked for a couple of summers ago as a prek/ kindergarten summer school teacher called me and asked me to be an aid teacher for their prek 3 class. They told me that if they were to have a couple more students enroll then they would split the class and I would be a full time teacher with a salary and benefits. After thinking about it for a bit I decided to take the job. So I began my job as a private school prek 3 aid.
Number 4: Ukkk the process of getting certified in Texas is ridiculous and expensive! Let me break it down for ya. I had to apply for the Texas board of Education to review my Idaho certification test and scores. Which is a cost of ridiculous proportions. I then received an answer to my review and it said that for my two tests that I took in Idaho I would have to take 5 here!!!! Idaho: Theatre/speech 6-12 and Math 6-12= Texas PPR, Theatre ec-12, Math 4-8, and Math 9-12 and Speech ec-12.... I was like what?!? So I sucked up my pride and decided I would forget about certifying in speech and that would leave me with 4. I signed up for the PPR and Math 4-8 on Nov.17 and the theatre test in the beginning of January and and the last math 9-12 at the end of January! Therefore I will be done with all this nonsense at the end of January!!!! I really hope that I pass the first time because I don't think I have the money to take them all again!
Number 5: About 2 weeks ago we had two more wonderful children enroll into our class and so the split was planned. They gave me an empty classroom and said to make it pretty and useful. I decided that I would do a bright star theme and I started decorating my class. Let me tell you something....there should be a class just for learning how to decorate and fill a classroom well. I was so overwhelmed but my co teacher was super helpful and we took our holiday and went to a teacher store stocked up and got to work! Here is a glimpse of what we accomplished:
Carpet for circle time
White board area
In the "lounge" with my cute stars [there is a double meaning in that ;) ]
Kitchen center where they like to play "house."
