I have officially survived my first week of sophomore year! Let me tell you that it has been long, but I think I'm really going to enjoy the majority of my classes this semester.
Last year and over the summer, I finished most of my prerequisite classes. If you do not know what these are, they are just the general education classes everyone has to take before they begin working on their major. I have a few more to finish up, then I can go all out with my Elementary Education courses!
I have a few education courses this semester that I already know I'm going to really love. UNCC developed a math course especially for ELED majors this year. As we all know, math isn't my strong suit, so being in this course is really helpful. Instead of learning new material, we're brushing up our skills on elementary level math (not as easy as it sounds). Most importantly, we're learning how to teach it to young students. I think what's been the hardest for me so far is having to actually remember everything from elementary school. I feel like we kind of lose those basic skills as we go through middle and high school and it proves to be a challenge to bring yourself back down to that level. I jot down little notes in my notebook while the professor is giving pointers about approaching students with math and it makes me so excited!
I have also declared my minor everyone, incase you missed it! It will be TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language). I met with a counselor this week and made a plan of classes I need to take throughout next semester, as well as Junior and Senior year. It is so surreal thinking about the future! We also talked about my semester of Student Teaching and how I will be placed to meet the criteria for TESL and general education. It's going to be a lot of work, but I can't wait! I would really like to go to another country and teach English after I graduate or maybe during a summer. That would be my ultimate goal!
Of course with all of this excitement this week I had time to fit in another...
I feel like these little moments are happening way more than they should.
I had about an hour between classes the other day and there was a group organization fair going on in front of the Union on campus. Last year, I was not very involved with activites and I want to change that this year. I decided to go to the fair with my friend Sam. I asked her if she could drive me to my class afterwards, so I could stay at the fair a little longer. She said she didn't mind and we started walking around the circle of tables in the quad. My class was at 5pm, so we got back to her car about 10 minutes before. She drove me up the hill and I started walking to my class. Because obviously I had been to class already once this week and I knew where it was, right? WRONG. Oh my gosh y'all. I was walking toward what I thought was the building with so much determination to be on time. That was a joke. I got to the door and it was the completely wrong building- in the opposite direction of where I needed to go! Being who I am, I had gotten my art class mixed up with my math class and I was late to class. Now I know the difference.
I hope everyone who started college as a freshman this week had a great first experience! Anyone who went back to school this week, I hope you knew where your classes were (that's so embarrassing). Have a great weekend y'all!
