My Day Today

Well right now it is 3 am and I just woke up from a nap I layed down for at 7 pm. My sleep is so off here and it's hard to catch up. I could have slept through the night, but I have some homework to get done and my alarm for the morning was not even set. (I'm glad I woke up at all!)

Today I woke up late because I was up until 3 am the night before trying to figure out my homework. I am trying really hard to get my sleeping back on schedule, I would say that is the most difficult thing I have been experiencing here. Anyway, I finally made it down to breakfast about 15 minutes late, but thankfully Amy waited with me. Then we had class. We watched a video called 49 up! a documentary that has followed several people from England through a series of documentaries every seven years since they were seven years old. So obviously in the one we watched today the people were now 49. I guess that documentary is pretty popular, you may have heard of it. Then after lunch we went to a presentation put on by several teachers across the world to tell us what they are doing in their classrooms. A big side note to our program is to learn about job opportunities outside the U.S. (I know Mom you don't want me to even talk about this), but the opportunities are amazing and endless. Pretty much what I have gathered, is all around the world there is a great need for teachers, and wherever you get a job (the benefits obviously vary) you can be provided with living, transportation, limited taxes, sometimes including your meals, and travel to and from home. The people from the MSU Master's program ahead of us (years 2 and 3) all have different jobs across the world: London, Hong Kong, Mexico, and so on. So anyways, we went to these presentations and I was able to talk to some people about their experiences and also about technology in the classroom. I spent most of my time talking with a teacher from Colorado, about his uses for wikis and blogs in his fifth grade classroom. It was nice because we are learning all of these great things with technology, but I actually was able to see it put into practice.

After we were done for the day, we did a little bit of shopping and then I came home and took a nap till now. Well I should get myself ready for tomorrow and then get back to bed, we have another busy day tomorrow. Love and miss you all....