Fee Fye Fo Fum!

I think Teaching Internship is going to be fun. I had my first go at it this morning at 8:00. I'm with Mrs. Sharp and Miss Crystal. The kids call me Miss Alayna, and it's really weird. The kids at karate are supposed to call me Miss Alayna, but only a few ever have.

Anyways, every morning as soon as the kids get there, everyone sits down for breakfast in a "family setting," so everyone sits at the same table and talks. The kids are supposed to pour their own milk and scoop up their own food, and it's really tough to watch them spill everything, but it's cool that they get to do their own stuff. Some of the kids are barely three, and they go up to five so the ability levels vary a bit. The teachers (and interns) are required to eat with the students to "model" the behavior. I'm proud of myself though, because today was cream of wheat and bananas, and I choked it down because I was supposed to. The teacher said that I'd get good at pretending I like the foods, when I actually hate them. Cream of wheat isn't as bad as I'd thought it'd be, but I absolutely ABHOR bananas. But I was hardcore about it.

And ohmygosh I GOT MY OWN CUBBY. I have no idea why I'm so excited about this, but I am. My coat looked so out of place, but it was kind of cute. You get to feeling like a giant in a tiny world, because there're so many little people running around and you feel like you're going to squash them. I'm supposed to be taking notes the whole time, but it's just not possible. Even though the teacher's going to have me hang back a little for a week so I can get to know the kids a little better, the kids don't know that. I'm an "adult" in their eyes, so if they need something, they come to me, especially because I'm the new one. Today almost every kid asked me to sit by them, and I did a puzzle with one, and read a book to another.

I'm really looking forward to getting to know everybody in the next semester, and maybe this'll help me decide if I really want to be a teacher or do something else, because I've been thinking a lot about that lately.

Oh well, I'm not going to stress about it at this point. Que sera sera :)