Advancing

Some things are advancing at the moment.  I applied for the college of education last night and have a group interview next week as well as a visit with an adviser.  I have a special presentation I will be making to a math class at the high school starting next week and will run twice a week for the next four weeks.  That should be interesting.  The lady in charge of the program just keeps telling those who are participating that the kids will love us because we're college students and they will think we are a lot smarter than their teachers.  I laugh to myself every time she says this because I am not a traditional college student and have a daughter that is their same age.  I don't think they will look at me as a cool college student.  We will see how it goes though.  I think I can certainly relate to those this course is designed to help, those who think they suck at math. It should be fun.  I have to start doing observations and logging some hours with that.  I don't know how that will go but it should be interesting.  I think I can incorporate some special ed observation as well as ESL and other things.  I just saw that the reporting that I will do on this will need to be 4 to 6 pages and well documented.  It should be fun.  Thankfully the online math class has slowed a skosh and I am not spending nearly the amount of time on it as I was the first week.  I'm still spending a lot of time, yesterday was 3.5 hours easy and the day before was pretty full as well.  Fortunately today went quick.  I might survive this class after all.  I do have to say I am a little nervous about the college of education thing.  I have to take the praxis exam, which I need to do anyway. I just get nervous about it and wonder if I can actually pass it and how it will effect my future studies.  I am hoping I can muster through it without too much trouble.  It is a $150 test so I can't really afford to take it too many times.  I was just getting used to the pace of classes when all of the sudden I have all this other stuff happening but that is what needs to happen so we will press forward.