Get Ready, Get Set

Are you ready to hear my plan? Good because I can't wait to tell you! I am so excited, I will tell anyone and everyone who will listen! Ok, hear it goes.

Today is Sunday December 2, 2007. I will be completing my last week of student teaching starting tomorrow. On Friday I will be all done with student teaching! This is both exciting and saddening. Student teaching has been such an amazing experiance. I have learned so much about myself as a teacher and about students. I know now that I LOVE teaching. I love it! I can't wait to have my very own school and students. I am confidant that I will make a good teacher one day... But for now... I have other things to do.

On Monday December 10th, 11th, and 12th I am going to be a Substitute Teacher. That's right boys and girls, I'm going to get paid to teach! No more being a volunteer. Actually, that isn't accurate. For the past 16 weeks I haven't been a volunteer, I had to pay to be a teacher. Crazy student teaching. But no more. I will get valuable teaching experience as a substitute to put on my resume.

Then on the 12th I have my final meeting with my supervisor. After she looks over my notebook and sees that I have everything in order I will be signed off and good to go. She will submit my paperwork and I will get my diploma and teaching certificate. Not right that day... but soon enough.

Then on the 13th I am going to load up everything I own and move it all down to Tucson. I am going to give it all to my brother. And by give I mean leave at his house rather then pay storage fees. =)

On Sunday December 16th, after moving all my worldly possessions and visiting as many friends and family as I can, my sister and I will board a plane bound for Seattle. My brother will join us on Monday. My mom bought us all plane tickets so that we could spend Christmas with her in Seattle.

I may or may not work at my mom's office for a few weeks. If I don't I will find some other work to do. Someday I'll learn how to take a vacation... but I don't think now is the time.

Early in January (I haven't picked a day yet, but sometime between the 5th and the 20th) I will be flying to Madrid, Spain. I am going to live in Spain for at LEAST seven months!!! I am going to be an au pair for an awesome family. They are a mom, dad, 12 year old son, and 10 year old triplets (two girls and one boy). I am going to live with them, help them with homework, hang out with them, and speak to them in English. I am also going to have time to take Spanish courses and travel. I am so excited!

After my seven months are up, I have no clue what I will do. It will be any number of things. I could stay in Spain longer and continue to be an au pair, move back to the states and become a teacher, or whatever else. I am not worrying about that right now though. Right now I am focusing on the 100's of things I need to get and do before I MOVE TO SPAIN!