I was Robbed

We went and stayed with my in-laws for christmas and spent a whole week just hanging out and enjoying company.  On friday morning my wife's sister came in and said that our van hatch was open and the door was popped open.  I figured that we must have left it open all night and went on with life.  Today we were getting everything in the car and and i noticed my toolbox was gone.  I always bring my toolbox when we go on the road in case I need to use the tools.  Anyway, I look around and realize that it was stolen and the day that everyone was telling me that the car was open was the day or morning it happened.  I have heard of people telling me before about how their tools were stolen once and how much it sucks but I couldnt ever say anything other than that sucks.  Now I know how it feels.  I made that toolbox in high school.  I collected those tools over the past decade.  Many memories are tied to those things and while they are just things, the pain of being stolen from, being violated like that really hurts.  The tools can be replaced and life will go on but I am still hurt.  I guess all I can say is farewell to my tools.  We had some great times.  I just hope that whoever they serve next will treat them well and that they will work hard.

Final 276 post!

So the semester is almost over but I still feel a lot of stress.  After Wednesday it will be way easier.  Its not the finals that are worrying me this semester but everything else it takes to get there.  I feel like if I am going to teach something when i graduate from this program, it needs to be computers and electronics.  Nothing else really floats my boat.  I just finished watching our 6th grade teaching video and i was thinking about so many things we could have done better like teach something else.  I'm really disappointed that we didn't do the spud lab like the other group.  I loved that lab when we did it last year and it totally didn't occur to me that we could do that.  It is all done now but what a missed opportunity.  I wasn't excited to teach airplanes.  Aviation isn't what is in my head all the time.  If I am going to teach in the future, its gotta be one of my passions that I teach.  i love electronics and computers.  I do that stuff for free.  I really don't get tired of it either.  I got tired of the airplane lesson before we even started and that is a problem.  I'm not in a very good mood tonight.  I have a lot on my plate and it is uncomfortable.  Maybe I should have saved this post for Wednesday night.

Week 12

We had the chance to teach Ms. Hensen's 6th grade class at Mapleton elementary this week.  We prepared a lesson on flight and we used paper airplanes to keep the kids attention.  They seemed to really like it and were interested.  The kids were forgiving to our teaching.  When we made mistakes they didn't jump all over us for it.  It was a good experience but I was not happy with the lesson.  I didn't care for it because i was bored while we were preparing it.  I don't want to teach about why planes fly.  I want to teach technology, more specifically, I want to teach how certain technologies work and be able to play around with them.  If we had a plane to fly around it would be different.  Paper airplanes just aren't enough for me.  Everything went fine, but I was bored.  As I heard about the other groups and the lesson they taught on electronics I was excited.  Lighting LED's and messing around with wires to shock the whole class sounds fun and educational.  I dont know why I didnt think to do that stuff.  That is what I like to do.  The only thing i can do now is wait for next time.