Today was my first day of student teaching with students at school and Jason's first day of official medical school. My day went really well! All the staff at the school is super nice and very helpful in terms of encouragement, finding stuff, and teaching me how to use the laminator, etc. :) I met my classroom of 23 third graders. They seem pretty great! Today went really fast and my teacher and I mostly focused on reminding the students' of the school rules and teaching them our classroom's rules. Some of them were still in summer mode so they needed a few reminders and teacher looks. (teacher looks are facial gestures that teachers use for students who are off task to know what they should be doing without words... I'm pretty good at them :0) After school my teacher and I worked on our lesson planning for tomorrow. I am liking this teacher stuff! It is a lot more work than most people give us credit for, but I can't wait until I get to start teaching more and by myself. EXCITING!!
Jason's first day of medical school went well too. He was a little overwhelmed, but I think that is pretty common and expected. He studied his butt off and read all weekend for today's class and he said he felt he performed average. I think that is great! I told him to remember that he is in medical school, the people he is in class with are in the top 2% of their undergrad schools like he was. In medical school he will not flatten the competition as much as he did in undergrad. Today he also did his first lab with cutting his cadaver. They examined the chest today which included the muscles, bones, etc.. He said he didn't get queazy or anything, he looked at it as science not a human person. His group did decide not to name their cadaver though. They wanted to respect that it is a human being and that she did have a name and that they did not want to disrespect her and rename her. I thought that was pretty thoughtful. Anyway, Jason is swamped with reading and studying until the end of the semester in December. I'm sure any words of encouragement would be helpful:) I am so proud of him! I know he can do it! He does too, the first week is always the hardest.
Tonight, was also our last class of 3 premarital classes that we were required to take for us to get married at Jason's church. We were assigned to the same couple for 3 sessions where we went to their home and discussed important topics with them about marriage. At first I thought it was going to stink and I really wanted to get it over with, but now that we've done it I'm actually sad. I really enjoyed our couple, they were brutally honest and didn't sugar coat anything. Jason and I really felt comfortable talking with them and sharing our feelings with them about all the topics. I appreciated their advice and encouragement, they are very sweet and sincere people.
Well, I need to go and get started writing an "About Me" letter of introduction to the parents of my class. I hope everyone has a great week! We are happy, busy, and blessed!
Love,
Breanna :0)
