Job Interview Hiatus

This past Monday I had my final interview for Teach for America. I am not sure exactly how it went because the interviewers seemed puzzled by my presence. I was the only person who is earning a teaching credential which isn't really surprising as you don't need one to be in their program. I was the one of two people who wanted to teach high school and one of two people who wanted to teach science (the other wanted to teach elementary science). This is out of the total applicants present which was 12. It was a rather long morning and I'm not allowed to share specifics but I honestly have no clue how it went. Luckily I'm not relying on this as my sole opportunity. I have two other job fairs I will be going and I am trying to watch edjoin and research districts I might want to work.

It was weird because I missed my students today. They had all last week off because this county is one of the few places that still gives a week for Presidents' Day off from school. My students were very concerned with my absence and even more concerned when they found out why. Apparently they don't want me to move away. I explained that I have to move because there are no jobs teaching science in this area. Most of them were just concerned that I am going to leave before the last day of school this year but my mentor teacher explained to them that it's for a teaching job starting next fall. Honestly I hadn't thought about how it is going to feel to leave my students but I think it will be sad...I'm going to have to make a "Ms. Henderson" facebook so I can stay in touch with them! I have only been teaching them for 3 weeks but I already feel like they are my students.

Grandma Riley sent me a very funny and very relevant email...Here are some of my faves:






we're talking about the skeletal system in anatomy so this one is perfect! We told them a fib is a little lie so the fibula is the little bone (w.r.t. the tibia)