Exhaustion Has Set In

Flat out, I'm exhausted. It's only Monday, but it feels as if I haven't slept in a week and a half. I have been getting up at 5:45am every week day, and not going to bed until around 10 or 11pm because I am spending my time lesson planning. Speaking of lesson planning, I taught a lesson today... completely solo. Yep, I taught a writing class all by myself. I came up with the material, made my own worksheets, and executed the lesson... fairly well in my opinion. Tomorrow, however, I am teaching a class while being observed by my supervisor... which is kind of a big deal. And I am soooo so nervous. One of the classes I am teaching tomorrow (I am teaching the same lesson to two different classes) is the class full of trouble-makers. Even just today, we had to send two of them out in the hall to do their work because they were causing so many disruptions. I hope my classroom management skills are good enough to deal with that class... Luckily, my cooperating teacher is still going to be in the classroom if I need her help... I'll just be the main teacher that day.

I haven't had much of a life outside of the school lately. If I go out to hang out with anyone, I only ever end up hanging out with the same person... my friend Crystel. I miss having a bit of a life... but I have a feeling a life is something I wont have for quite a while... and I just have to come to terms with that. Raising a toddler on my own combined with finishing up my Masters degree and getting ready to become a teacher is so much work that I cant even imagine trying to do something else... but life is kind of lonely...