the last week

This is my last full week of summer vacation. Starting on Monday, all student teachers will meet at Black Hills to find out who our supervising professor is going to be (the college professor who will be grading us and obvserving us throughout the student teaching process), and to do one last final check on portfolios. Then Tuesday is the first day of school as a student teacher.

I've been having dreams about student teaching, and it makes me nervous. That means it's finally getting closer and closer. This month flew by so quickly, I have no idea where the days went. Fortunately, near the end of summer, Aaron and I got to spend a lot of time together, which was really nice, compared to the rest of the summer. However, he started training at his new job this morning, so I have the whole apartment to myself for the rest of the day (until I have to go to work, that is). It's kinda nice, but I feel like there's no structure in my daily activities, like lunch time or anything like that.

Aaron and I finished up clothes shopping for my student teaching, which included about six new pairs of slacks to wear while teaching, as I only had about four pairs before. Now I can mix and match quite a bit more than I was able to before. I also picked up a couple of new pair of shoes to wear. I've been trying to get ahold of my teacher I'll be student teaching with, but she's not listed in the phone book, and the two websites that gave her email address were wrong, and she hasn't been at the school each time I've tried calling to get ahold of her. The school finally did give me her email address, and so far the email company hasn't sent back an "email undeliverable", so that's a good sign, I suppose.

Two more days of work, and then I have the last three full days off from work and school until school gets out in December. Once school starts, I will be teaching five days out of the week, and working four days out of the week, two of those four days being on the weekend. So basically, seven days a week, for four months straight. I'm so not looking forward to that.

But now that I've been at Cadillac Jack's for a year, I'll have some personal days and paid vacation days that I can use when I get stressed out or have a big project to work on, and I'll get paid for it. I love being able to do that!

Kool Deadwood Nights starts on Saturday the 26th and goes 'til Monday the 28th, so if you like classic cars from the 50s and 60s, come to Deadwood and check it out. Parking is a pain, so be prepared to search and search, and then pay out the wazoo for a parking place!