meet the parents

last night at school was back to school night. so i met about half of my students parents last night. it wasn't too bad, except the fact i was at school from 7am to 9.30 pm. it was nice to meet the parents, and my supervisor kept telling me throughout the day, just talk straight for the 10 minutes. don't stop talking. and i seemed to get a good reaction from most of them, especially when i talked about my background and living abroad and how i was teaching the class. and i had a few tell me they were excited to meet me, as they've heard good things from their child. so yay!

and then progress reports are due at 9am on friday, so i spent an hour after school tonight getting those done. and i still need to do my lesson plans for next week and write a study guide and figure out what section of the grapes of wrath my us 2 students are reading tomorrow to talk about the depression. so much for an easy night tonight, because i am exhausted! and i still want to watch grey's tonight! oh and sleep.

so on the way to work i flip between a bunch of radio stations trying to find a good song that will put me in a good mood in the morning. and so every single day i hear taylor at least once. and because i have xm i'll usually hear her 2-3 times between like 6 stations. and usually different songs. so for the first time since school started, i did not hear any taylor on the radio :( i was sad. luckily i always play parts of 3 songs on the road that the school is on to pump me up. and right now it is chicken fried by the zac brown band, single ladies by beyonce and maps by the yeah,yeah,yeahs. and today i added fearless to get my taylor in. (yes i realize i'm crazy)

at school between 7.30 and 7.35 before first period the media tech kids pick a song to be played over the loudspeaker before they do the morning tv broadcast. and this morning they played somebody to love and don't stop believing by the cast of glee. i was pretty excited and i'm pretty sure i did the happy dance. luckily my first period kids are great and didn't laugh too much at me. but definitely started my day out right :)

oh and apparently my observation went well, i haven't met with my supervisor to discuss but my mentor said he said it was good :) so yay! and we are doing model congress in my us 1 classes and i miss the summer and being in dc.

but i'm quite excited for tomorrow at 2.27 and sleeping this weekend!

oh, and i hadn't been to any of the national parks until the summer of 2007 when i went to 4. but i've actually been to more than i was aware because there are a lot of smaller ones such as the all the monuments and the mall in dc, ellis island, statue of liberty, the delaware water gap, the appalachian trail.... go to the department of the interior to find a list of national parks in your area :)