Sorry bout that
I had to go class.
So things were looking ok. Classes had been in for about 4 weeks when She received her first teaching placement. Well she ended up at her old highschool! She wasn't too certain about this situation, but she hadn't been back to her HS in 5 years. So she went and met her Mentor teacher, a young woman the same age as her whose first words out of her mouth were "I had a Student Teacher before who was horrible. I hope you are better than the last one." Well, our sister was a bit taken aback and shocked by that statement, but heh, she could prove herself.
So starting her 6th week, she no longer had classes at the U but was teaching at her HS. Well, she did her best, and tried very hard, but she just wasn't the greatest teacher. She was reviewed and got a good mark and her Mentor Teacher gave her an OK review half way through, but things still weren't going great. In her 3rd week of teaching the Mentor sat her down and talked to her but she wasn't very helpful. One afternoon in the teacher's lounge she overheard the janitor and the Geo teacher talking about student teachers. Janitor"yeah, I hear Simona got a bad one" Geo teacher glances over at her...she's the only other person in the room, and he knows who she is; the janitor however had never been introduced.
So, that just reaffirmed her own doubts and at the end of the week she got a bad final evaluation from her Mentor teacher and was trying to hold back the tears as her father picked her up from the school.
The following wednesday (halloween consequently) she dropped out of school. She knew she wanted to continue in school though, so she talked to a prof and started sitting in on 2nd yr Latin. The following semester she signed up as a Non-degree student and took 3 more courses. She didn't feel ready to apply to grad school though, so she was looking at job opportunites. She saw an ad for Official Language Monitors, applied and got the job for the 2002-2003 year.
Finally, she realized she had to apply for Grad school or she never would. She had thought a lot about it and found another area she felt would be equally interesting as classics - Library science....She also applied to 3 colleges as backups.
She was accepted to go to Nova Scotia community College, she accepted the offer and paid her deposit and one week later she received a letter from the University of Western. Well once she felt the envelope and knew there was more than 1 sheet of paper inside, she started to get excited.
She opened the letter and was offered admission to the MLIS programme at UWO!! She was so excited that she called her friends at work long distance(during the day that's expensive) and told them. Of course, a day later she came on greek Chat to share her great news with her sisters and she thanks them all for their support!
So, in the end, her adventure is not finished. She is on her way to a new school in a new city with new people and has a lot of discovering yet to do.
So there it is....not sure why I used the third person, makes it sound a bit more interesting doesn't it?
Can you tell i've been wanting to share my story for awhile? I love talking about school!
PSLAM
Jen