I can only start out by saying how insanely glad I am that Thanksgiving is almost here! Like most people probably, I have a list a mile long of things to get done before the end of the semester! Not to mention the class I teach at the community college and all their final papers, exams that I have to grade! This has been a busy week in my schools as well, where I am going to do my student teaching I have been teaching this week too as a type of 'preview' and it is going pretty well so far, well its done now actually and I think it was a success. They finished the projects that I had assigned and I think that they really liked it (as much as high school students like anything at school anyway...). Yesterday my professor from here at UNCA came to observe, so of course it was the worst period out of the week! My co-op teacher actually left the room (which she has never done for the whole period) and the kids really did try me beyond belief- all in front of my professor- so he probably now thinks I am horrible in the classroom! Argh. Of course, after he left the other two periods were much better. It always happens that way! But at least I survived that, so it is fine! Today I am going to listen to research that was done last semester in the education department so that should be really insightful into what works and what did not. I am looking forward to those a lot, I hope they offer some inspiration!

Next week is a short week since turkey-day is coming upon us, and it will be nice to be able to at least slow down a little bit- even though there is so much going on! Talk to you soon!