4 days....

Tomorrow I'm waking up at 4:30 to get Sean to the train station by 5:45. He's going to Arlington (near my home, ironically) to go to 3 days' worth of meetings with the company he's working for. He'll be staying at my house and taking the metro to and from places.

And I'm stuck here at work:P

I guess I should be happy I have a job to keep me occupied. Tomorrow's my first day with the 3 year olds full time as their teacher. Holy cow. I'm actually gonna be a teacher tomorrow. I'm very excited! But I'm also going to miss Sean a lot. We've been working well with each other and though we've had some difficult times, we're getting better at the good times:) I know it'll especially be hard because I can't have my cell phone at work (only during my lunch break) and Sean's meetings are after 5 at night when I'm done work. We'll see how this works out. Hopefully "absence makes the heart grow fonder" is truthful!

Alright, gotta focus on the classroom. After all, I start there tomorrow:) One thing I really want to do in this classroom is help the kids learn. After talking with the other teacher about what they can and (mostly) what they can't do, I want to help them become a bit more focused. Now I know I can put some high expectations on these kids, but I don't care. I know most of them, if not all of them, are fully capable of learning things such as the numbers 1-10 and A-J at least by summer! They might be pre-preschool, but I want these kids to get excited about learning before they reach the next stage of life:)

Tomorrow I'm going to try to follow the schedule that the previous teacher had out for me. She planned out the entire week - following the curriculum that she was given mostly. I'm hoping the kids and I will work together well:) If you're reading this, please keep me in prayers tomorrow! We're going to work on making rules together as well - I've always wanted to do this with my own classroom before I even did my student teaching. I know that if the kids are making the rules with me, many of them will try not to break them:)

Alright, off to bed. Oof, and did I mention that I'm coming down with something? My voice is fading - Sean thought it was hilarious that I'd try to yell at him and it came out in squeaks - and I don't feel so hot. Mom gave me a cocktail of drugs to find in my room and down before I head off to bed. Hopefully I'll get some good sleep and fight this sickness ASAP! All I need are parents running away with their kids because I'm barking and yelling in a hoarse voice :P

G'night!