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02-4-2008 - Itchy Bitch

My mood while writing this blog: Headache

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April 2, 2008
So, there's a new way to blog on here. In case this shows up elsewhere, there's previous blogging that can be found on my page. Just a quick update on the fact that I'm super itchy. No sign of real stretch marks yet because I have been overwhelming my belly with cocoa butter and / or olive oil every morning after I shower. One of the ladies on here told me not to scratch! I'll see if I can restrain myself! As of today, 20 weeks along, I've gained 10 pounds, and I'm sure I'll gain quicker now. My boobs have grown a bit, and the nipples are darker and stick out a little bit. I get mild headaches in the mornings every now and then, and sometimes in the afternoon.

Teaching has been ok.

My college mentor freaked me out when he told me the principals wanted to see him. They told him about my non-planning and etc. They were concerned about my teaching skills, I guess. I informed him about everything before he'd get surprised. He said there were no surprises; they said everything I told him about. Anyway, my observation will be rated Satisfactory and, at the end of the day, that's all a first-year teacher needs to hear. Plus, I feel more confident now ... I'm planning way better than I ever did, but it's still interesting that I'm not getting any bilingual-teacher support and I told my mentor that.

Although my principals want to act like my non-planning totally shocked them, my mentor was shocked that they never monitored me by asking for my lesson plans at the beginning of the school year. Sure, people observed me informally and modeled lessons for me, but no one ever knew that I was technically doing that without real, blown-out lesson plans. Now, I have a format and content and I am going to continue to type them up for 4 hours every Sunday. Yay. At least I enlisted a fellow bilingual teacher from my college cohort to plan lessons by my side as she plans her own.

I have mixed feelings about teaching. Everyone is so nice and friendly and those that observe me seem to think I'm doing just fine. So, I'm wondering if they're spreading the news up to the head-honchos so that they don't think I am a sub-par teacher. I don't think I am a bad teacher, but I do wish I had taken the traditional route to teaching by getting a degree in teaching and doing a semester or year of observation as a student teacher because, honestly, that would have benefited me and my students and it would have saved me the heartache of going through this "is she a good teacher" bullshit with my supervisors and mentor.

Anyway, back to pregnancy .... I am now seriously considering home birth and am reading a book called Childbirthing Without Fear that was published in 1950-something, but was reprinted in 2004, and has amazing insight for today's birthing experience.

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