Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Adventures of a First Year TFA Corp Member

My experience in Teach for America has been somewhat of a whirlwind of happenings up until this point.

It seems like yesterday that I was getting ready to pack up my bags for summer institute in Mississippi.  Since then I have completed teaching summer school to 7 precious 2nd graders, experienced life in the deep south, enjoyed a ton of bbq and fried food, flew back home, packed up my car with all my belongings and drove back down to North Carolina.  I did a little couch surfing
and then moved into my beautiful lake house with two other amazing 1st and 2nd year corp members.

All this to say that teaching my 19 little 3rd graders has been incredible.

Driving to school each morning to teach these students has been incredibly humbling, incredibly challenging, and incredibly inspiring.  This is why I love it.  This is why I teach.

I want to be the best that I can be so my kids can be the best that they can be.  They deserve it.  Each and everyone of them.