Last night, for the 2nd time in a week, I have had a dream where it was the 1st day of school and I was a teacher. One time I was teaching 4th grade English, the 2nd it was high school science (yeah, I can see myself doing that ...)
For the 1st time in my life I finally feel like I know what I am supposed to be doing as my contribution to society. I want to be a teacher. I want to make an influence in the lives of future generations. I feel like I handle kids/pre-teens well. You still have some influence over their behaviors. I miss the days of creative book reports and spelling tests on Friday mornings. I miss grammar workbooks and journal writing. I want to go back to the days where times were easier. I loved 6th-8th language arts and I want to relive those days through the coming generations.
I am going to go back to school. I'm not exactly sure when but I know I won't start anything until I've lifted myself out of my self-inflicted debt. I don't know how long it will take to complete but I'm figuring a degree in journalism is a good base and may only have to take 2 years with a semester of student teaching. That doesn't seem unreasonable right?
I feel settled knowing I have a goal for myself and I know what I finally want to do. Abt is only temporary and I know that. I love my job (sometimes) but most of all I love the people I work with and I'm okay with staying there for now. But only for now. I'll be a teacher soon enough if all the cards play out. I just have to keep telling myself there's no hurry ... I'm barely 23 .... there's still time.
In current news, softball season is over. We lost yesterday and our team looked like crap. I know that 2 of our top sluggers were playing on the other team on a field across the way, but still. It just wasn't us out there. What I also didn't know was that in the play offs they put the B league teams against the A league teams. Now I don't find that fair. That's like putting a major league team against a minor league team in the world series.
Whatever, we had a lot of fun and still won money (I don't get to see any of it though ... we'll probably have a gathering of sorts) and got an awesome trophy with a spinning ball on it.
That's all I've got. Work work work. That's all I do. It's 11:30 now and I'm ready for bed. Didn't get off until 10 tonight. Yay overtime.
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