Roe Updates

Oh my gosh- I love teaching!!! I love it! These students already have such a special place in my heart, and I have such a burden for them...to see them learn, to see them connected- I spent my whole planning and focus (study hall) blocks today having "mini conferences" with kids who are behind...going over things with them, helping them, catching them up, etc, and I am really looking forward to the improvement I know I am going to see in them by the end of December. I can't believe it's already been 2 weeks and I only have 5 and 1/2 left! Seems so short. Time flies during the day. I was there for over 10 hours today and it felt like 2! Unreal how quickly it goes by. But, there comes a point where you have to realize, "I will not get it finished today" and be able to move on....

.....on to William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Jonathan Swift that is. I am currently taking a "brain break" from studying for my British Lit midterm tomorrow. I am SO excited to get past tomorrow in the world of MY studies. Recently, I've had 3 midterms, not counting the one tomorrow, a paper on Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (which is kick butt awesome, by the way! The story, not the paper) a paper on the political & social satire contained in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and still to be turned in, a paper on American dialects, particularly Creole and Cajun, which I chose to do. And all within 2 weeks. It has been CRAZY lately, and I have been forced to do things last minute that I NEVER do. I am totally one of those work- ahead, prepare for the future type students. I do NOT procrastinate, but lately, especially adding the teaching, I have found that there simply IS NOT TIME. And I don't mean that I am putting it off....I mean- IT'S NOT THERE!!!! So, I have to pray, ask the Holy Spirit to guide me, and prioritize according to how He's leading me. We shall see how it turns out for grades, but I certainly feel like I'm learning things: abundantly!

So, there's your update. Okay, back to Wordsworth and his ever changing self. (He went through four major stages in his life and writings, if you didn't know....)