monday, monday

it's been a long time since i've written, and many things have happened. right now i'm at school again, but during the kids' special period which basically means its my down time.

a typical monday we meet as a whole corps in copley square to do PT and unity rally then we either book it back to the office to do our time sheets or we head out to the t station to get on the train and come to work. (which is where i am now). but we always arrive at a horrible time in the schedule and so now we're just sitting here waiting, so i am taking the opportunity to update a little bit.

(12:48) it's lunch time and sometimes on mondays i get a little frustrated because i am only in class for such a short amount of time that i never get anything done with my kids. i also hate being left alone in the classroom because i am not very good at getting them to do anything when the teacher is out of the room. half of the room disregards me entirely and you can't really do work with just half the classroom. i refuse to scream in the classroom and i just shut down when i can't get them to calm down. i'm not really sure what to do but i am glad that i am not thinking of becoming a teacher. it seems really hard and i think my teachers had it pretty easy because our classes were always very quiet/ready to learn/respectful -- but it definitely has to do with the school system and where i lived, etc.

now we have our weekly team meeting from 1pm to 3:30pm, then another meeting about conflict management within our team from 3:30 till hopefully no later than 5:30 and then i've got to book it back to the office for step practice. so mondays i wake up around 6am, get home around 8:30 or 9, go to bed at 11 and start again the next day. i should probably try to go to bed earlier.

i'm starting to think seriously about whether or not i should come back for a second year. i love the culture, i don't know about being in school again, i think that i would like to come back as either senior corps or staff. new england is great.

i was in vermont this weekend at a service site for concert corps -- it partnered with habitat for humanity and stephen kellog and the sixers for a fabulous service day building a house. matt and i went up and met with a bunch of people from the cynh 05-06 corps and a new cynh person, lee. overall burlington, vt was very pretty and matt's friend was gung-ho about showing us a lake and when i get home this evening i think i would like to post some pictures, etc