Teacher Life/September Update
Thursday night as I was sitting in my bed eating Chick-fil-a at 8:45pm after a 14 hour teacher work day, I thought about the last few months of my life.The last time I posted, I was talking about how excited I was to start work at my new school. It is now September, and we've finished about 6 weeks of class. I've been teaching 2 classes of college prep Physics, 2 classes of honors Biology, 1 class of college prep Biology, and 2 classes of mixed level Scientific Research I. I am also the co-sponsor for our Science Fair, I have to create 3 digital lessons every week for our Flex Fridays (optional school day for kids, but they have online assignments to complete), and I am enrolled in a program (alternative teacher certification program- essentially a 2 year masters program squeezed into 2 semesters while working a full time job). This is technically my first year teaching. To say I am stressed is the understatement of the century. The only thing I am doing that is more than most other teachers at the school is my certification program, though, so every day I feel like a huge baby complaining about all the stuff I do. I'm sure there are a few others who are in some sort of masters program right now, and to them I ask: "WHY." I had my first evaluation last week for the program as well. It was fine, but I was disappointed with my performance and my results. It is all a learning process, and honestly, I am not enjoying it.I try to take my mind off things by learning how to code websites, speak Spanish, play guitar, and by practicing yoga or working out. These things are all like, very rare occurrences, but I really like thinking about doing them at some point in my life when I might have a bit more time.There has been one point in time in the past few months where I did something, sort of a job like thing for someone, and it was the most proud I have felt of myself in a very long time. Aubrey (my best friend) asked me to design a birthday invitation for her little boy's 2nd birthday. It's a Cars themed party, so she wanted a Cars themed invitation. She sent me a few pictures of some that she was looking at, and I got to work. I probably spent a solid 5 hours in one afternoon on the invite. I didn't even notice the time passing. I just started working, and when I was finished, I looked at the time and 5 hours had passed. It was weird. I loved every second of it. I had to Google a lot of things and trial and error and use new tools that I'd never tried before, and it was SO. FUN. I sent her the rough draft and she loved it! I was so happy! ***No offense, Aub, but you are hard to please so I was super nervous to do this for you lol. And the fact that you like it is AMAZINGGGGG!*** I did a little more work on it, per some additional suggestions she made, and wallah! It was done! She printed them and sent me one in the mail, and I have to say. It is incredibly cool to receive something you have designed in the mail, and to know other people will receive it the same way you did. I am so proud of the final product. I just want to show everyone haha.This project also felt like a realization/turning point in my career life. When you find something you enjoy doing so much that you don't realize time is passing, maybe you should find a way to pursue it on a larger scale?... Hmm.D and I are celebrating our 2nd year of marriage next month and I think big changes will be happening for the Tice family in the next year. (NOT BABY RELATED- DON'T EVEN GET THAT IN YOUR HEAD.)Also, I'm really thinking about starting my YouTube channel back up. I think I'm going to film a bunch of content first though, so I have more of a consistent upload schedule. My first series will be about all the jobs I've ever had. I think it should be about 6 months worth of weekly content *cries/laughs*. Stay tuned for that!Love,Jess