Well, that's going to be me again. I am back in school, and NERVOUS! As someone so graciously noted in their blog a few weeks ago, I graduated from ECU 10 years ago. Now, to some, that may not seem like a long time ago, but to me, it feels like forever! Forever since I've been made to read a 300 page book in less than a week just so we can discuss it on the first day of class (I don't do summer reading BTW!) Forever since I've had to write a paper, any paper. Forever since I've had to carry a bookbag and walk around campus (we weren't required to have a laptop at ECU, so now that's in my bookbag, too!) Forever since I've had to sit at a classroom desk (I just barely fit today)! Forever since I've had that first day of school jitters!
If you don't know, and most of you don't, I am going to UNC-Chapel Hill to get my Master of Arts in Teaching. It is a full-time one year commitment (I think I can, I think I can . . .) I will graduate in the Spring of 2012 with my Master's degree. Then, I can teach.
Today was my first day, sort of. We had orientation today. I looked at today as a day to "try and find." Try to leave the house with enough time to make it to school. Try and find my way to Chapel Hill (from Greensboro). Try and find the Park and Ride lot (thank you Molly for helping me with this!) Try and find the correct bus to get on. Try and find the correct stop to get off (I got off too soon-on Franklin Street, of course-but still only had to walk a short block). Try and find the classroom building. Try and find the classroom. Try and find the bathroom (always important after having a child!) Try and find a place to sit since I was 30 minutes early-a place outside the classroom to sit that I didn't look too nervous and out of place waiting until others got there so I also didn't look like the "eager beaver" student sitting in the front of the classroom waiting (you know us Baptists can't sit in the front of the room). Try to look like I know what I'm doing when orientation starts. Try not to ask stupid questions (I didn't-I hope :). Try to talk to the other new students (the kid in front of me turned out to be a brother of one of Chuck's friends from high school who we also went to ECU with-a while ago, back in the 90's as the kid put it-Thanks!) Then, try and find the place to get my OneCard and try to take a decent picture (right!). Then, try and find the bus back to the Park and Ride lot. Then, try and find my way home. Whew! Long day! I think I did a very good job today.
All the while at home: Chuck took Carlee to preschool, picked her up from preschool, took her to lunch with my dad, brought her home, took a nap (all three of them-separately, I might add!), finger painted, watched a movie WAY over my child's head (2 fast 2 furious), and then went to dinner with me once I got home.
Chuck is, of course, out of school for the summer, and Carlee is in her last week of preschool for this year (she gets the summers off, too). I find it fitting that Chuck and Carlee are finishing their year, and I am starting mine. Carlee is finishing her first year of preschool, and I am starting my first year of graduate school. I can only DREAM that my graduate school will be as easy as her preschool! I WISH and PRAY that my teachers are as GREAT as her teachers have been this year! I pray that my teachers can teach me as much as her teachers taught her this past year! Everyday I marvel at how much she has changed and grown in the past year, and I THANK GOD that she is attending a preschool with loving teachers that can openly share their love of Christ and His love for her on a daily basis with her!
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| First Day of Preschool September 2010 |
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| Last week of Preschool June 2011 |
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| First week of Graduate School June 2011 |
Yeah...going back to school after a long time away ain't easy...I'm proud of you!!
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