Disney was amazing, our first vacation together to the most magical place on earth!  We really enjoyed everything that it had to offer!  Epcot was great, below is David with the big giant ball at Epcot!  We did pretty much every single park and tore it up until about midnight when the park closed.  We went with my family, all of them.  We had a loud, wild, exhausting, hilarious, and enjoyable time.  It was a great time!So now, David and I are coming down from the high of our Christmas vacation and boy is it difficult trying to get back into the swing of things.  We’ve struggled with setting up some routines in the house for things such as laundry and when to scrub the shower, but this weekend was helpful in  pulling us together a little bit.  When Dave got up for work this morning I could tell that he was suffering from a little bit of the cold weather blues, as we all are around this time of the year; this makes everything 100% harder to do.

So here we are, our apartment is clean and scrubbed completely for the first time since we got back from vacation and it wasn’t gross or anything there was just a lot of laundry to do, all the Christmas decorations to put away, and all my school stuff to sort through.  The unfortunate part about that last thing is that the school stuff I put away will only be replaced by more school stuff by the end of the week. 

Yes that’s right, I am currently looking right down the barrel of student teaching.  Oh terrifying, I’m talking like….out of my skin afraid.  You would think that after working in the classroom for the past year that I would feel prepared for what is about to happen; you’re wrong.  I think that education is a lot more like medical school than people think.  I respect that some people believe that you have to be smarter than a teacher to be a doctor, I hold the firm belief that in order to be a teacher you have to be smarter than everyone else. haha! Anyways…what was I saying? oh! yeah ohkay…uhm. (let’s start a new paragraph, that will help me refocus…)

Education is a lot like the medical field.  You read about how to do things, how to teach and how to heal.  Until you get into the field, however you really don’t know how to DO anything.  Every patient is different and every student is different.  They way you learned how to heal one person, or how to teach a lesson, may have to change drastically from how you learned it.  Now, I’m not completely out of mind I know there are a lot of differences between the two professions.  Doctors have to know a lot about one thing (the human body) and teachers have to know a lot about everything…;).  Oh also, like $60,000 difference a year.    Oh and like 4 years of school. Ohkay fine! Doctors are smarter than me, but you get the jest of what I’m saying…

I don’t even know where I was going with this…OH! Yes, I’m afraid; so for all of you out there that think I don’t understand what teaching will be like, be assured that I’m completely aware of what I’m getting myself into.  Which should assure you in itself.  It assures me, knowing what I know about the profession and doing it anyway is proof that I was meant for this.  It convinced me, so let it convince you too. 

Tomorrow starts a few methods classes for the next few weeks but Wednesdays I’m in my classroom.  Oh boy!

Some quick big updates from Brownsburg:

It snows.

I quit my job at the bank after 3 years, in order to make room for the time and effort that this semester requires.

David is working hard on a site for a organization called Bethany Kids (I’ll let him write a post to explain if he wants) and he is very excited about it!! (to be honest, it’s probably one of the coolest sites that I have seen!)

We are eagerly awaiting Spring!

That is all for now! Tomorrow starts a whole new adventure for the Brownsburg Radcliffes!!