Simply Me

The school year is coming to an end, as well as my first month and a half of teaching! I have been reflecting on how things have been going the past few weeks. When I think about how short of time I've been here, it makes me feel better about how I'm doing. Teaching here has gotten so much easier and better the more days that I'm here which gives me hope for next year! It's weird when I think back on my good students and my bad students. There are some students that have driven me crazy the past month. They seemed miserable in my class and were so difficult for me to motivate. A few of these students that I deemed impossible to impact have come up to me, thanking me for helping them finish off the year and thanking me for making english fun for them. I even had some of these students say I was there favorite teacher, which made me feel bad for complaining about them to Clayton haha. Although these interactions were a good thing, they definitely made me feel a little gui...

Today I had a random urge to write about my thoughts and feelings, utilizing this blog as an outlet. Today I have been having strong feelings of appreciation and gratitude for my life with Clayton. I can not believe how lucky I was to have met him in our circumstances. From being raised in completely different places, meeting somewhere we both thought we’d never end up, and now building a life together across the country. Today we spent the day completely relaxing with nothing on the agenda. We went to the pool and talked for hours just swimming. People always told me about relationships where they could just talk and laugh hysterically for hours on end, which I never experienced until I met Clayton. I couldn’t even relay what we talked about but we never stopped talking and laughing. For so many years, I struggled with finding a best friend. I had good friends in middle school that I thought were my whole world, but randomly decided to cut me out. Even doing so in the horrific way of ...