Well, it is now pouring rain, and has been for a few days. I am beginning to doubt that there will ever be a lovely day for outdoor activities until the spring.
Tomorrow is my last day at Kearns. My last day of waking up at 5am. That part sounds really nice :) I think, despite the indifference that is rotting through them like some awful kind of fungus, those kids aren't too bad. I just wish they would let themselves learn.... and maybe that they would realize that the school wasn't built for them to have a bunch of rooms with chairs and computers where they can sit and talk with their friends. But, those ones who have the aforementioned issues all figured out are the students that make it worth it.
I've been thinking about my future, my career in particular, and I am excited. Teaching is fun. I've got a little taste of what dealing with punks is like, and now that I've gotten more used to it, I don't feel quite as urgent about running away from public secondary schooling to get advanced degrees and hide from all those issues. Sure, I'd like to someday... being a professor would be awesome. But I recognize the greater potential to make a difference in students who haven't left home yet. They haven't yet taken on the attitude that they don't need anybody to get to the top.
Oh, and two quotes that make me laugh to even think about:
"You're like the only girl I've ever met that knows about computers..."
(trying to be cool) "I was playing with an iPad and it was like trippy S***!!!!"
Steve Jobs... You were wrong, the iPad isn't magical.
[RACHEL]
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