Chicago

This past weekend I traveled to Chicago! For four years now I’ve gone on this trip with the Perry High School Speech and Debate team. A national tournament is held at Glenbrooks High School right outside of Chicago. Although I had a blast, this trip felt a bit different. I graduated in 2005 and ever since I’ve spent countless hours at my high school coaching students and traveling with them around the state of Ohio and further to tournaments. This year, since I’m student teaching at Jackson and my cooperating teacher is their head speech/debate coach, I figured I should shy away from spending every weekend with Perry. (If I haven’t made it clear in past posts, Jackson and Perry are huge, gigantic, enormous rivals.) For the past three years I’ve known most of the Perry speech kids; this year I knew only a few. It was an eye opener. Perry speech is the reason for my career choice. I’ve dedicated several hours to this team. I’ve made wonderful friendships throughout the years, and now I don’t know half of the kids. Again I am torn! Some part of me wishes I would have been placed at a different school therefore I could still coach at Perry, but I love, love, love being with Mrs. Mann and the students at Jackson. Ugh, such an internal conflict!
Onto a brighter topic- school’s almost done! One more week of classes and finals week and, my gosh, I’m done. Granted I have student teaching full-time next semester, but no more final exams- that’s awesome! I have a good handle on my classes now and say “bring it on” to the finals weeks of fall semester. It’s weird to think about not attending college next year. I’ll hopefully, with fingers crossed, be teaching my own classroom. I can’t wait to see what the future holds! As for now… Happy Thanksgiving!


(Also as an aside, I received an e-mail from Disney. In an earlier post I talked about my "lie" to the students using a Disney theme. They wrote back! I can't wait to share their letter with the kids!)