What I learned at institute...

As I continue my efforts to try to catch up, I realized I have left out a few things. So...

**I passed the Texas high school graduation test, the THEA, though I didn't get a perfect score on my essay somehow. Apparenly a 10-minute, 5-paragraph essay is only worth 7 out of 8. It was worth the extra few minutes of nap time on test day, though.

**I also passed the short bilingual test we were required to take, but we have a bigger one coming up.

All right, I can move on to explaining something else I left out:

Institute learning

I know way more now than I did when I started institute. I have a higher opinion now of institute than I did when I was there (when it was sheer torture) and I almost (though not quite) understand why people go back to be CMAs and so forth.

This additional respect for what we did at institute has not extended so far to giving "generosity of spirit" (as we would say) to other things I am told to do, such as orientation, but more on that later.

It was, mostly, worth it in the end. There are things that could have gone better. I would have had a way better summer had I bought into it myself, but I didn't because the unit plans provided for us were not on the correct page for our students. My students were, in retrospect, quite underinvested.

But of course, I'm not sad to leave behind the condemned Moody Hall, or RFoC, or anything else about U of H...

A week off!

Yes, I received an awesome week off, though I did not get such valuable things done such as registering my car (since I was missing some documentation). I did get a desk and a bookcase from IKEA, a store which I do not wish to see again, at least for another two years. My room is set up, kind of.

Next time around... my complaints about "orientation," as well as my developing vision for the coming year!