my students are much smarter than me

Greetings and Salutations everyone

Right now for me it is 10pm on monday night and i am exhausted!! Last week I had my first experience with the Juniors and Seniors. My cooperating teacher is Mr. Duhrkoop (Mr. D) and up until last week he was with the seniors on their trip to Thailand, so when he got back, i finally got a taste of what it is like to be a high school teacher

my students are much smarter than me

but besides that, i really like my students. the 11th grade class i teach is US history (which i love to begin with) and with the seniors it is a Global Issues class (right now they are preparing a comparative government study on 6 different countries and will have a mock-UN summit on thursday and friday regarding the problems in the Darfur region of Sudan). makes for some very interesting class discussions, and i'm loving every minute of it.

the 8th graders started learning some of the traditional theater arts of Japan last week, and though i was supposed to start teaching a unit on teh Meiji Restoration Period of Japanese history, that has been postponed until further notice. whereas i basically was able to jump right in on the second day and start doing things in Mr. D's classes, i am still yet to teach an actual lesson to my 8th graders. . . but soon i will, i just have to stay patient.

i've been playing some soccer here too, and am realizing how much i really do miss that sport. even though i can't talk to most of the guys i'm playing with, it doesn't even matter. people say that music is the international language, but i think sports is just as much of a cross-cultural language

sorry this is so brief, but its getting late, and like i said previously, i am beat down

see me later