I KNOW THAT IS AWFUL TO SAY... But give me a minute to explain. Today was a planning day and after a meeting about some potential changes to our school WE PLAYED WII DANCEEEEEEEEEEE..... As in the 30 teachers from the school JAMMING to WII dance and absolutely getting sweaty and laughing. It was so much fun, I really loved it. There were really only 2 downers. The first being that after 2 days of snowboarding and working out yesterday, my body hurts. But giving that I love dancing and being silly I was obviously ALL over it. The other downer was a comment made by a teacher who I have had little to no interaction with. Our last discussion about the changes potentially occurring was to make the school a "teaching" school and to just get rid of the whole BP/ contemporary thing. This teacher spoke about the fact that she had a student teacher as well but that it wasn't acknowledged in any way. We, Stanley interns, felt bad. I mean I had NO idea that the girl in this teacher's classroom was a student teacher, I thought she was a para. And I KNOW I wasn't the only one who thought that. So it was awkward because we all felt really bad but at the same time the road goes two ways and this girl/ teacher had just gotten annoyed instead of seeing it as an opportunity to make changes.... Anyways so later during the dance party after some of us interns had given up and instead were watching our mentors dance, this teacher made a comment about us "going above and beyond the other interns" and to keep dancing.... It in my mind was not only a rude comment but an unnecessary comment. Part of being a teacher is understanding that everyone works at different paces and those of us who had stopped dancing were either sore (read: ME) or were just enjoying watching our mentors. AND THAT IS OK.. There is nothing wrong with any of that!
Anyways, Trevor and I spent most of the day just hanging out in our classroom grading work, checking in homework and just enjoying ourselves. We went out to lunch which is a rarity for us and just generally had so much fun. As weird as it was, it was oddly calm and just fun. I felt like Trevor and I were able to just hang out and just enjoy each other. He's a really cool guy and I'm glad I get to learn from him. I'm a little nervous to start doing report cards with him but oh well. Every part of this year is learning and I'm trying my best to learn all I can from every situation.
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