wow...

Student Teaching has gone by soo fast. I have learned so much this this semester and have had some things confirmed.
a) I am definitely NOT meant to be a choir director, lol. I enjoyed working with the junior high and high school students and toyed with maybe being a junior high director, but it is defiitely not for me.
b) I AM meant to teach elementary general music, which is what I originally wanted to do anyway. I switched a few weeks ago to this and I absolutely love it. Being there has definitely just confirmed that this is what I want to do.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would be where I am today, I do not know that I would have believed them. At 13 and in 7th grade, I had vague ideas of what I wanted to do but didn't know for sure. When we had to pick a career for a paper in English, I think I picked child care provider, so that's obviously no where near where I am headed. Now, I just hope I can find a job for August. Things look pretty bleak in the teaching world right now so I am just praying and believing that the right job will be there for me. I keep telling myself when I have a job in August not if I have a job. It still baffles me that I graduate from college in less than a month. Where has time gone? It seems like I just graduated high school and college life was just beginning. I have made some incredible friends and met incredibly talented people and had some amazing professors.
In other, not quite as deep thoughts, I leave in month for New York!! :D I have had this trip dangled in front of me a couple of times before and things didn't work out, but this time it's a for sure thing. I am so absolutely excited to finally be going. I'm going with a group from my former chamber choir at TAMUCC, Camerata Isla. Last summer, our tour went too Missouri for a members wedding and it was such a blast. Hopefully this trip is just as great. :)

Student Teaching...

     Wow, um, so I haven't posted in like forever. But, I've been super busy with the end of last semester and the beginning of this one. I survived field basing with Dr. Cunningham (no small feat, I assure you, and my fellow PST's will attest to that) and am on to student teaching. I am back with the same clinical teacher from last semester (my old HS choir director) which also means I have the same kids. It was fun to walk in and see their reactions when I came back. They were all excited (JH moreso than HS, but, lol) It's definately been an interesting experience. My first day back they were doing mock TAKS testing at the JH so I didn't get to see my first class of JH students and didn't spend that long with the other class. The next week, on the Monday, we had a lockdown drill during the JH advanced choir. Fortunatley, the kids were really good and knew exactly what to do and cooperated well. Then, that Wednesday, the power was out for the first two and a half hours or so of school so nothing was accomplished that day. At the HS the lights got blown out in the choir room so we had the kids in the teaching theatre. School was cancelled Thursday and Friday due to the weather. We had a really big cold front come through and ice over the roads so the city essentially shut down that Thursday and part of Friday. That Saturday was Solo/Ensemble. Not all of our kids showed up but the ones that did did really well. Six JH went and 4 got 1's and 2 got 2's, and there are 14 HS students advancing to state solo/ensemble plus the HS madrigal. Then my clinical teacher took our all-state choir student to TMEA and I got to be the teacher for three days. That was definately an interesting experience. Overall, it went pretty well, but definately some interesting moments. I've taught the varsity women's choir a piece for their concert in a couple weeks and am going to start a piece with the advanced JH choir on Tuesday for my observation. It's a French piece so hopefully it goes well. It hasn't all been work this semester though. I got to go to San Antonio for Province Weekend with some of my sisters in January and that was a lot of fun. I also joined the Corpus Christi Chorale to do Handel's Messiah. It's hard to believe I'm almost halfway done with the semester and I'll be graduating in May. Hopefully I'll find a job for the fall :)