Spring Break!

Well, third grade is going pretty well so far. This week I am on Spring Break and really just not doing much except for being lazy and lounging around. It feels VERY good :) When we go back, I will be starting multiplication with my students and shifting into hardcore test-prep mode. They take their math test in a little over 2 weeks. I am nervous for them, so I cannot even imagine how they must feel. I do not remember such stress being put upon me while I was a third grader. Hmm...Gotta love those standardized tests!

Last Thursday I went to a Teacher Job Fair. I ended up having two different interviews that both seemed to go pretty well. It did make me slightly discouraged, though. I feel like I am never going to get a teaching job in Ohio. Especially not in Northeast Ohio, which is where I would like to stay for the time being. I just want my own classroom! Subbing is not terrible, but it would feel so much nicer to have my own classroom where I can do all of my own things. I guess I am going to just keep applying and see what happens. I am still considering moving to North Carolina, but I'm not sure if I want to just haul off and move to a place where I know NO ONE. Not a soul. It's a scary thing to think about...but at the same time I feel like it could be strangely adventurous and exciting. I guess we will see where I am at come July and then it will be time to take any job I can get that seems halfway decent.

I don't know. This job search process is incredibly frustrating. How come no one in college prepared us (us being myself and my fellow teacher friends) for the extensive post-college job search process? I mean, sure I have the college's career center, but I almost feel like I should have taken a whole class on this kind of thing. It is exhausting and overwhelming just to write about on here. It almost feels hopeless...like a lost cause...I wish I would just see a *poof* of smoke and a magical job contract with a decent salary and good benefits would just appear in front of me, with a pen floating next to it to sign with.

Hey, a girl can dream, can't she!?

I plan on using the remainder of this break to continue applying to school districts and getting my name out there. There has got to be SOMETHING I can do...
I'll keep you posted.