After Monday's jam packed day, I went home and began to think of how much I loved what I am doing everyday. It was once said to me that if you love your job, you'll never truly be "working". This was made even clearer to me on Monday. All Summer long I've worked to prepare myself for my future career as an educator and I feel as though these past few weeks have only strengthened this push towards success for me in the future.
I've also realized that along with the good times come the difficult task of working with multiple colleagues. This is always a challenge seeing that I am in a career that is filled with the opposite gender. This has also been difficult for me in the past because of my race. This challenge does bring on tests that help to prepare me beyond what any college or class can prepare me for and for that, I am constantly faced with many new learning experiences.
When the day ends and I go home each day, I am thankful for my current opportunity for success. I am blessed to have such a supportive mentor teacher, supportive parents and family, and a very supportive fiance. I often times wish that I was already in my own classroom with my students, but the experiences that I am constantly gaining are vital to my success in the future.
I take these opportunities to constantly remind myself that education is about everything that surrounds us and that "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything that he learned in school." I hope to continue to grow and gain these experiences over the next few weeks of student teaching. It is times like these that I fully understand and realize that I was born for this!
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