Well, in my last post I promised everyone I would post more often, and I'd really like to. Unfortunately sometimes that is not what life wants I guess. I have had very limited computer use since the last time I updated because my computer charger is not working. I have a replacement that I will hopefully be receiving any day now (it arrived in Italy on Saturday morning). I have internet access in my apartment with my phone, but it is very difficult to write a whole blog post on my phone! I will give a short update now, and elaborate more when I have my computer and include pictures at that point.
Last week one only a three day week in school. I had last Monday and Tuesday off and got lots of things accomplished around my apartment such as cleaning up, making a very comprehensive list of what I want to see while in Rome, and doing laundry.
Having a three day week of school was very nice, I have now decided that we should have that every week! :) Over the weekend myself and the four other student teachers from Iowa State as well as the one student teacher from University of Northern Iowa traveled to Florence together. The six of us got the train right after school and spent the whole weekend in Florence. If you have never been to Florence I would definitely suggest to add it to your list of places to go! It was beautiful and very calming, which we all decided was the perfect way to spend a weekend when you are student teaching. I have many great pictures from Florence and will do an entire post on Florence with pictures and more of what we did when I have access to my own computer (as I am currently using my school's).
I had a VERY bad sore throat on our way back from Florence, but it luckily was gone Monday morning. Although I was left with terrible congestion and my voice sounds horrible. (Those of you who were lucky enough to experience me CONSTANTLY losing my voice--for no reason too!--in high school can imagine exactly what I sound like right now) My co-op teacher left yesterday afternoon for a conference and will be out all week. Today was my first solo day, although there is a sub with me and she assists in many ways, I'm essentially the person in charge. There were some trying times, as there will be with any fifth grade class, but it's such a great learning experience. Although my voice sounds much worse than it did this morning!
I will update again when I have more access to a computer and plan to do several small updates when that happens.. so you are not forced to read something as long as my last one. I will definitely post about Florence, my school/class, and some small daily things.
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