Field Trip

On Thursday, the fourth grade at my school was going on a field trip, and I got to go with them as a chaperone. We went to the Museum of Natural History up at the University of Utah. I had heard people talk about how cool it was since they redid it, so I was pretty excited to go. The bus ride up was kind of noisy, but I was surprised that I didn't hear any kids break out in song. I remember that being what we always did on field trips in elementary school. They had three to a seat, so it was kind of squishy, but it was fine.

When we got there, we had to pass out pencils and wristbands and get everyone in their groups. I had six kids in my group which wouldn't have been bad if they were kids that would stay together. I had a couple kids who wanted to be in other groups, so if were a little bit ahead of one group, they would lag behind to talk to their friend; or if we were a little bit behind, they wanted to move on with them. There was also one kid in my group that was always trying to move ahead and go on without us. I had to keep telling him to come back or to wait until everyone was ready to move on. Luckily, the other four were pretty good at keeping together, but I found myself counting heads at least every five minutes.  The museum was really cool though. I kind of want to go back and actually look around for myself without having to worry about losing children.



The view from on top of the museum



The dinosaur exhibit

(Note: I don't know why these pictures have the lines across them. They don't have them on my camera.)

Finally Started Working

Wow! It's crazy how doing nothing can make you so tired. So, I started work yesterday. I'm helping out with the whole fourth grade. The teachers had a tentative schedule for me, but one of them was not here today or yesterday. Then, the schedule doesn't account for things like PE or computer lab or library, so there are still some kinks to work out. So this week, they don't really have that much for me to do. I did get to play a few games with the kids in small groups during centers, or rotations as they like to call them.

Mostly, I just sat and watched, which can be entertaining for a little while, but doing it all day can get tedious. I got home, and I'm just tired. Then my sister says, "Why are you so tired, you didn't even do anything," because at her job, she did manual labor. I think actually doing something would wake me up more than just sitting and watching.

 Hopefully by next week, the schedule will be all figured out, and I'll have more stuff to do.

I Got a Job!

So, a friend of mine told me about a principal that was looking for some teachers' aides at her school and told me that I should apply for the job. I did, got an interview, and the next day, the principal called and offered me the job, which I accepted. The only problem is I have no idea when I'm supposed to start working. She said they had to do some paperwork and then they would get back to me. Also, I have no idea how much I'll be making or even what exactly I'm supposed to do. So I have a job, but I don't know when I'm working, what I'm doing, or how much I'll be making. And the crazy thing is that I don't really care all that much. I do hope I start soon though.

Job Hunting

Right now, it seems as if I will never get a job... There are jobs getting posted, but if I got one of them, they would all require me to move or have a super long commute... Two things I would rather not do. Besides that, all the jobs that are pretty close, I apply for and then never hear back from them. I'm beginning to wonder if my lack of having worked is something that is causing them to not even contact me for an interview...