For those who want to see it bigger http://youtu.be/oK1xESsphUM
For those who want to see this bigger http://youtu.be/uWi06VsmMLU
I've already been here for three months! It is going by so fast!
I'm definitely hitting the hardest part personally, while things are slowly improving at my job. I am exactly where I expected to be at three months! It is so funny how well I know myself. It really helps for me to realize that it is a process rather than depending on my emotions to tell me how I'm doing.
My job: I made it through parent observations. I received good comments on all but 4 or 5 of my students. (They weren't even bad, just suggestions). It really surprised me, because I am so new and the students still really miss the guy I replaced. For the most part, students are adapting to me and are starting to respond more. A lot of the older students (ages 8-12) still wish that the guy I replaced would come back, but the younger ones are doing great. I still have a lot of work to do in my teaching! This experience and everything that I am learning about teaching children is going to be so useful when I go back to the states.
Personally: Heather came and it was so wonderful to have her here. I forgot how necessary it is for me to process out loud. In my job, I'm doing everything I can to stop processing out loud (for a number of reasons I wish I could vent about, but I'd better not). I think I talked for three days straight! lol. Poor Heather, thankfully, she is such a good listener. I said goodbye to her today and cried right in the middle of the train station. The silence in my apartment is deafening and loneliness is the worst I have felt since I got here. I suppose I'll mope for a day or two and then try to get out and see more to keep my mind occupied! :)
