Break, Bummed, Bridal Shower

Break
1. Well we are now a week into March, and I am counting down the days until our Spring Break (April 6-10) arrives! Hopefully we get the whole week off (i.e. no more snow days) so I can spend it up in Omaha with Nick. We are planning on painting our frontroom that week (olive green) so we can get it all ready before family begins to come up for visits. When break arrives I only have two more weeks after that for student teaching which is sooooo exciting for me! I even have my lesson plans for this coming week already pretty much figured out, which is nice :) The way I figure it up, excluding Spring Break, I have to make lesson plans for 5 more weeks, so I think I can handle it! It's just a matter of being able to do all I am planning for in that time; however, I wouldn't be disappointed if I didn't get to poetry in LA2 ;)

2. Tomorrow we have a teacher's in-service, so the kids don't have to come, but the teachers do for workshops. However, that doesn't really bother me because it's a break from the kids and from teaching ;) It's not that I don't like teaching....I do, but it just wears me out and I am ready for it to be over.

Bummed
I had my first interview for a Special Ed. position this past Friday and I was super excited. However, I walked out of the interview feeling much less excited. Basically during the interview they asked if I had any experience writing IEPs or working with Sp. Ed. curriculum and so I said "No" which was the honest answer. The interviewer said that he doesn't think that just having passed both Sp. Ed. Praxis tests and having taken some of the coursework would qualify me to teach Sp. Ed. in Nebraska. I am going to call the Nebraska Department of Education tomorrow to try and get some answers, but I literally lost it the moment I got to my car. Not because I felt negatively about the interview, but because I felt as if I have wasted the last year of my life pursuing my Sp. Ed. certification, along with lots of money on the tests. It just seems like nothing can ever go right or smoothly for me....or Nick....boy we'll be a good match! Haha

Bridal Shower
Saturday I went to Kati's bridal shower which turned out to be a lot of fun! I had never really been to a Bridal shower and really enjoyed it. It almost seems like an official beginning to the wedding season and stuff for us to come! Martha is going to have my bridal shower on April 25th which will be fun, except for the fact that I don't like being the center of attention :) Something that could be potentially problematic on our wedding day too :)