It's getting harder emotionally to be a substitute soley because as I float from school to school, I make brief acquaintance with teachers but no good teacher friendships such as I had (still have) back in Texas. It also is getting hard because I really miss teaching math. It makes me appreciate my tutoring chances that come by all the more. I loved my last job at the publishing company too because I was still involved with the world of math education--without the students, but still involved with the instructional aspect. There are definitely things I don't miss, but it's getting hard and frustrating to keep getting passed over for even an interview for the very very few math teaching jobs that exist within the one hour-radius that I've been searching.
At least I'll get to count sub experience as teaching experience when I reach the 120 day mark (that would be next year....).
The future remains for me to be surprised by God :-)
I'll be scoring again for a nearby company in a couple of weeks which will carry me nicely into a little bit of summer and maybe help me get another summer scoring job afterwards. We'll see. God is the Great Provider.
In other news, my little garden doesn't look to be requiring much watering from me anytime soon as the rain just keeps coming every other day or so.... It's amazing how quickly overcast skies get old... I know some people are a bit on edge if it keeps up after last year's flooding....especially as the river is definitely getting high. (That's natural...it crests a few times every spring)
Anyways. That's about all for updating my life. I was quite pleased to discover that I could plant columbines up here and and thus have a nice reminder of my family out west in the Columbine State. I wonder if I could get Bluebonnets to survive up here.....
I'll get picture up on the next sunny day....
Posted by Anna at April 29, 2009 05:00 PM | TrackBack