Graduate School (Warning, I Am NOT Saying Anything Positive)

Things I know about graduate school...

1. The professors must think I'm dense because they all say the same thing over and over and over and they think I don't get it

2. I have now watched the same video (teaching kids about diversity throught finding their true skin color using Crayola paints) 4 times

3. It would be great if I didn't have to write the same paper twice (okay it was a little different because one was about the school I teach at and one was about the middle school I am placed at right now but it was the same format with the same information)

4. One teacher told us to not use graphic organizers

5. Another teacher has a stack of graphic organizers for us to use on a daily basis (irony??)

6. Have any of these professors taught elementary school in the last 5-10 years? Sometimes I'm not sure if they've ever been in a classroom full of 27 elementary kids

7. The grad. school thinks my undergraduate career was a complete waste (now I agree this is somewhat true however I realized I did learn quite a bit)

8. Paying 1000's of dollars in tuition for classes that are basically teaching the same thing is a complete waste. I could have a great LCD TV in my new house but NO I have grad. school

9. Writing a 10 page paper in one night stinks (No, I did not procrastinate. We didn't get the syllabus until Wed. afternoon, I had to get the information on Thursday from the students, The paper is due on Friday)

10. I have to get 33 credit hours to complete my masters however I have to spend approximately 5 hours each day for 3 weeks in just ONE class? That doesn't even count the 4th week in which I write a research paper.

However, I will put a smile on my face and only complain (after this post) to Gayla for the next 3 weeks!

Summer...Where have you gone????

Well, I see it has been awhile since my last post. May to be exact! However, I have good excuses.
1. It's summer
2. Graduate School
3. Moving
4. It's summer
5. Visitors nearly every week
6. Personal time
7. IT'S STILL SUMMER

Overall, I have just been a slacker. So with that said please let me fill you in on my summer life! Ryan and I closed on our house during the second week of June. We are still settling in but things have progressed. We are really enjoying our neighborhood and the Hamburg area. It is a different way of life over here but I think I can handle it for several years! Below are a couple pictures of the house before I started putting things away. Maybe I'll post some pictures of what it looks like now in the near future.

The back yard before we had a lawn mower!

Sitting in the living room looking into the kitchen area

I think I moved a couple things before this picture! It is not nearly a cluttered as the previous!

I have also had graduate courses this summer. I took one class in May while school was still going on. Then in June Gayla, Abby, and I participated in the Kentucky Reading Project. Today, I just started my third class. I'm not really sure what it is all about though. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a syllabus? These are pictures of our last day in class when we had to present our school literacy action plan in an interesting way so the other participants knew what we were doing. I don't want to brag but I think our skit was the absolute funniest! If you see Gayla please ask her what she does for differentiation constipation :) After viewing the pictures please let me know if you would like use to perform the skit for you!!!

Well, there is a small post about life in the Harrington Household. Hopefully there will be more to come in the near future. Oh... and I believe after ONE successful year of marriage we are no longer newlyweds so the subheading under the blog will be changing!