Into (before it all begins)

Its weird to say how far I have come in this life 4 years ago I got into college and although I am having to do another year of undergraduate because of transferring and making friends my first semester at USM instead of studying, I do feel like I have taken the next step. We say we want to do something like yeah I want to be a doctor, or a fireman when were younger, but we never really become certain about what we want to do until about our last year of college. Granted there are those few who are still switching majors but only a small few. I have always felt an attraction to teaching yes an attraction but I had so little experience with it I had no way of connection with it. For my parents reading this who may have just made faces, don’t worry I know what I want to do. I want to teach. I love teaching standing in front of like 25 kids and explaining an idea until they truly understand it and then testing them on it and them getting excited about getting an A and knowing everything about it, well to me there is nothing better. So here I am in love with teaching. Really my Ed classes with practical are the only classes that get me through semesters. If that’s not a sign then I don’t know what is. Again I love teaching. Yet here I am at another crossroads see I want to teach, I want to teach history but I have always been interested in special needs education. Yet we can all agree a special needs teacher should never be interested in what they do.

This brings me to the point of this blog of all this reading that I hope my friends and family will do. I have the opportunity of a lifetime. This summer I will be working at a camp for special needs kids, well kids and young adults from 13-21. But not only that I will have one on one caring for (I want to say caring for but really its making sure they have fun). So why is this so awesome because in the university that is where I intend to go to grad school and get my masters in special needs and general Ed. We dont start in classrooms working with kids with special needs until the very last semester before we graduate. Wicked way to run a school right but hey those are the rules. Any way this opportunity to manage kids will allow me to be positive that I want to teach in this area. Before I waste 2 years and a ton of money. I wish to state first and foremost that this is serious I don’t want people to see that I am writing a blog about this and them and thinking I am taking this lightly. This is something I need to do to know if I should pursue it I don’t want to enter a job half assed.

Bu that’s just the beginning it will look great on my resume, for grad school. The amount of I could make anywhere else does not compare to how much this will help my resume. This job is great in so many ways. I love working with kids, I will be working with kids with special needs giving me insight into if I really want to be a special needs teacher. Then just working with kids is awesome too something I love to do as is. Nothing bad about this job. I seriously cannot wait.

So come along take this journey with me let me know what you think words of encouragement or to those teachers out there words of advice!?