Freshmen

Today was Link Day, which was when all of the freshmen arrived on the school campus for orientation and shortened periods of all their upcoming courses. We managed to smash both A and B days plus several assemblies into one day. Not bad, but actually slightly boring as nothing super productive got done. Pretty much just tours and introductions to the courses and such (plus, not all the students were present for all the classes because we have more than just freshmen all the time).

I'm hoping to be able to use the school/department camera for taking pictures for my homework assignment that's due in October. I really want to get it going and done ASAP so that I won't have to worry about stressing over it later when I'll have even more to do all the time.

Staying in school right now in between the end of the school day and the FFA officers meeting for rituals. We have a week from today to get rituals ready for Leadership Camp, which is going to be at Camp Adams in Molalla, Oregon.

It's funny, today kinda reminded me of the first day of camp. Especially with the opening assemblies where everyone is introduced to everyone and stuff, and freshmen walking around all awkward, lost, and terrified. It made me kinda happy to know that I was back in a position to help them, but at the same time, i don't really know my way around this school to actually really help them in that area, and I still want to, well, be a teacher, so you have to have a certain level of like, no communication so that they don't get overly friendly and try to push your boundaries and edges all the time. I don't want to get trampled on. I know back when I was doing my early fields that I kinda somehow had that happen, but I kinda think that it was mostly because of how casual I treated the whole thing, not to mention how distracted I was about life in general at the time, and I really just didn't know what I was doing or what I was in for. I was such a noob back then, it's kinda funny to think back on.

But as far as reflective thoughts for the day:
hmm, I got to do the chicken dance and totally humiliate myself in front of the school, but it was alright and still slightly/mostly awesome. I love kids. They are bomb. It takes a lot of time, enthusiasm and energy to keep up with them and to keep their interest, but I enjoy it.