It's been awhile..

This teaching/working thing is really starting to interfere with my blogging and FBing.. How do people do it all? Things are going well. Last week was rough. Whit had to have surgery and have all parts of her stimulator taken out due to infection. Also, on the same day my UTA mentor was coming out to do my evaluation for this placement. I felt horrible that I could not be with Whitney but thankfully my mom could be. She even spent the night with me. My eval did not go well. The students did not listen and acted like I was not even there. So now my mentor was very concerned about this and how I was handling it. Oh wait! I forgot to mention we moved during the week before to a larger house but we moved on the weekend when it snowed. So, with all these things combined I had a mini breakdown with my mentor. Thankfully she listened and told me to pull up my big girl panties and be the teacher she knew I could be! She also told my teacher to get out of the way and let me go...Which she did and I am happy to say I was able to step up and be the teacher I know I can be. I had to get tough and let them know I meant business. Now, don't get me wrong, I still have problems with repeat offenders but my classes are under control and I always give them a choice. So far so good. Of course, I have 2 Pre AP classes and one contains 2 students who are driving me crazy! These guys ask some of the most ridiculous questions and then when I give them an answer they want to argue with me.. I swear one of these students actually thinks he is smarter than me! lol! Ok, I will admit..he just might be! lol! But I will NEVER let them know that! I don't feel to bad though because they do the same thing to my teacher.... I did get my grad announcements though!! Now I just have to finish my time in 8th grade, pass my PPR, and get my portfolio together ( which is due May 7th). Guess I had better get busy and round up all my papers, lesson plans, evaluations and anything else I have to put on a disk...But, right now I'm going to relax, enjoy the knowledge the week is over and that I have survived middle school again for another week...Oh wait! I forgot to mention the principle casually walked into my 6th per. yesterday and took a seat and opened his laptop..I was so nervous and this class is weird. But after class he came up and patted me on the back and said good job! I'm hoping that was a good thing! Now it's on to filling out more applications(which take forever). I'm not going to stress over getting a job...Heavenly Father has gotten me this far and he will carry me all the way and I know he has a job picked out just for me!! Later!