It's not always rainbows and butterflies

I have neglected blogging in a while because I wanted to properly think about things.
I don't think I'm going to do a year-in-review of 2010. It was a tough year for me, and besides a select few experiences I'd rather just move on than keep dwelling on the past.
I'm a week into school now, and am already drowning in work. Dr. w's classes are killing me. The high school education class is four days a week (did I mention that it's at 8am? (Oh yeah, it's at 8am). He's got some sort of long assignment every night, and it's hell trying to finish all of it in time. Not to mention all my other classes aren't taking it easy either. On top of the fact that we had to take my roommate to the emergency room last night, complications from her car accident last week, I spent three hours there doing absolutely no work. Who could ever do work in a hospital? Come on. Thankfully my choral music class was cancelled today so I can use that time to catch up on stuff.

Tonight we're going to Dayton with my honors class to see Geoffrey Canada. He's the president and ceo of the Harlem Children's Zone, doing amazing things for children there, and we're using that as a model for the Promise Neighborhood. I'm getting out of band early so we can go to Dayton... hope we make it on time and that this rain doesn't turn into ice.

I've been thinking a lot about teaching and what it means to be a teacher. What it takes to be a teacher. And it's daunting. But I'm confident I've got people here who will encourage, nurture and inspire me so that I may be able to do that to my students.