my student teaching experience is over. and as most influential life experiences, finishing my student teaching was bittersweet. i enjoyed teaching this semester. my students were great, my cooperating teachers were amazing, i learned way more in one semester than i ever did in my college of education classes, and i feel much more confident in the direction i am going in life now. and even though i haven't exactly 'enjoyed' the getting up well before 6 a.m. every day, i realize that we have to make sacrifices somewhere in the mix for the things we love doing and are called to do. to be a little cliche, i'll steal a line from maroon5 about life and say that, "it ain't always rainbows and butterflies." things that we view as inconvenient and uncomfortable, such as working on five hours of sleep a night for the majority of a semester, are sometimes just the price we have to be willing to pay in order to live influentially.to close this post out and pay tribute to the amazing cooperating teachers i worked with throughout my student teaching experience, here's a picture of what the famous ms. joliet would have looked like if she lived in 1938. enjoy!
(ps - i totally misspelled mint julep as "mint julip" earlier in the blog...forgive me? i'm not so acquainted with the spelling of my alcoholic beverages yet.)
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