This post might not be too long tonight.  My wrist and hand have been bugging me for the past week and it's really intense tonight.  Enough of my complaining though, school was very up and down today.  This morning my site director, Sr. Florence, came to observe and evaluate me.  The students were very nice and asked her lots of questions, as always.  Our morning flowed pretty well but after lunch it just all seemed down hill.  They finished their quiz and then while Mrs. Lopez was teaching, I worked for an hour with one of my students on their quiz and they just were not getting it.  I don't think they wanted to get it though.  It was very frustrating.  He wasn't really trying and I can't do it all for him.  Mrs. Lopez finished with one of the grades so I took back over with them while she was with the other.  Whenever the two of us start teaching at the same time, my schedule always gets off and I can't seem to get everything done.  I started teaching math to third grade and that just became a mess.  I wish there was an easier way to be in the middle of them and have them working with me instead of me just listening.  I really am about to cave soon and buy some page protectors or something so that they can write on them and work with me instead of me staying up at the board.  Plus, I just feel so far away from them when I stand up there and write.  It was just not ideal today.  And we are learning about money so I want to make sure they are really listening and paying attention.  We hardly got through much of that lesson and then they had library and were just a mess in there.  I really thought I was going to have a breakdown by the end of the day.  I don't know what it was today but by the end of the day, I wanted nothing more than to be alone and work so I took my stuff and worked by myself in the teacher's lounge until Patricia was done with art.  I was able to get some grading done which was nice but we got back later so that kind of threw off my evening.

I finally took my car to get the oil changed and got some good reading done in a book by Dorothy Day.  I forget sometimes how much I really do enjoy reading and need to make more time for it.  Here I am in Florida, minutes away from the beach and I could just sit and read there if I wanted.  I really need to start taking advantage of it.  I'm just feeling really discontent down here and I know that it's all my choice.  I guess I just had a rough day so lots of emotion is coming out right now.  I'm going to stop while I'm ahead though and end this for the night.

"Tomorrow's another day and I'm thirsty anyway, so bring on the rain." Tomorrow's a new day; I just have to remember life isn't always going to be sunshine and glitter.  Don't worry about me!