MY LIFE IS CRAZY!!!!!!! TEACHING IS SOOOOOO MUCH WORK!!!!!!

That is all i have to say

So here is my newest stress.....I want to create creative and engaging units to teach in a few weeks..but I don't want to put hours and hours into creating stuff from scratch. Most of the lessons I find are pretty boring. So how do I find a compromise?? Because my teacher expects GOLD. And I want to deliver...but I also don't want to burn out ( Read more... )

Well as I sit here in the wee early hours of the morning and watch people start to trickle through the halls of the Education building I am reminded that I am not even halfway done my program! And that is not a pleasant thought to start the day with. Granted, I guess it is pretty remarkable that I am approaching the halfway mark since it does seem ( Read more... )

So I have been on practicum the past week and will be this week as well. It's fun and exhausting and stressful and overwhelming all at once. I am only teaching one lesson a day solo (math 7) and so at least that has been manageable. But let me tell you, as I will say many many times in my life, teachers are really not recognized for the amount of ( Read more... )

So today I was supposed to head out to my practicum school in Coquitlam because there was a school-wide Christmas concert. I spent all day yesterday baking my students cookies and making rice crispie squares to give to them but apparently nature had other plans. Traffic on the highway is absolutely insane because the Lions Gate is closed. I soon ( Read more... )

So I get a letter today telling me that I have been invited to join the Golden Key International Honour Society (following in your footsteps Jake). The letter has been sitting in my mailbox for a week or something. I collect the mail in fits and spurts sometimes. So I guess that means that I am in the top 15% of the Faculty of Arts. Now there is an ( Read more... )

So I started the Faculty of Education today. Was just several hours of orientation but im still really overwhelmed. It's an insane amount of work and class time. I think I'm in class for 35 hours a week. That is nutty and doesn't include travel time. The standards they expect are high. But I'm excited because I was born to do this. But will be a ( Read more... )

My mind is just swimming with thoughts but I'll try to get a few of them out. August 9th was a day that will forever be marked in my memory because that is the day that Nettwerk Records called to say that they want to sign Aliqua to the Nettwerk label and produce a CD. It's been a surreal, dream-like couple of days and I still feel like this may ( Read more... )

So after 5 long years of school and one year off, I AM DONE MY BA!!! It's been a long and often hard process because of family stuff etc. But today is a proud day because I am done. Finished my last exam this morning(which was brutally hard) and couldn't keep the smile off my face. I will officially graduate in November but I am actually finished. ( Read more... )

I'm so tired I'm near delirious after the most insane week of my life - no exaggeration. I will update better lately but right now I feel close to bursting because I sing with the most inspiring people I have ever met in my entire life and my heart is filled to the brim right now with such love for them. Words cannot describe what I feel but right ( Read more... )