Worked on our group project for presenting lessons to the teachers at fall in-service that will be next week. after researching it a bunch on my own, i found out when we met up that our second idea had been vetoed. Super depressing and generally frustrating. But we figured out a new one and we think it's pretty awesome. Finding viscosity of various food substances (sauces) when dropped from given heights, measure the diameters to find the circumference and map it all out on a chart. Pretty cool if you ask me. Nice and hands-on, which is always a plus.

I think I'm going to be TAing for ANS121. I'm actually really excited about it. I loved that lab. A lot of people who are TAing for it are in it for the credits and the public speaking. I'm in it for the teaching experience, even though it's not a whole lot. Also, because I know something when I can teach it to someone else, so that means I should (theoretically) be really good at the topics presented in the labs when it comes time for me to actually know what I'm doing when I'm a teacher or working with my student teaching things.

Also, I talked with a guy who I think might have been in last years cohort and he gave me a ton of advice about getting up on my game right now and getting things done with a super lot of detail before spring term hits. Also told me to get this book on teaching strategies, which put me into the idea of getting some books on teaching because they might actually help. Not that I have a super lot of time to be reading things, but it's better than nothing and getting my nose in at every turn is kinda important. I want to do well. Not just kinda well, not just average. I want to do well. And I know that right now, currently, I don't have what it takes to be a teacher. I am not a teacher. but I am becoming what I already am. Which... is an Ag teacher?

I don't say that with a lot of confidence because I'm not sure that's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life, but there's a good chance that I'll be doing it for a good portion of it. So yes.

I am going to be an Agricultural Education Teacher.

I am not one now

but I have it in me

and I am becoming what I already am

what is already planned out for me

I am on my way.

One small step at a time.

They didn't get to the moon in one try,  or in one night, so why should I expect to magically become a teacher overnight?