Day One

Nothing pressing.

Vocation rehabilitation talks (orientation and information sessions by a Doug). Application forms disseminated. Didn't do any teaching (or anything at all) save introduce myself to the shiny-eyed students - and during that brief two minutes, felt this intense confidence for me, coming from the student's expectant faces. I feel empowered to teach today.

Smiles all round.

Just making the effort to remember the names now. There are some new faces this semester (as compared to the information session we had sometime last year, in October '09. Remembering names and associating faces will be imperative right now. Due to policies and security precautions, names will have to be changed on this blog, seeing as this content is accessible to the public and I will do what it takes to protect these kids, whom I know I will grow to love.

Here's the roll so far:

Student [D] : Rob

Student [A] : Luke

Student [T] : James

Student [C] : Cheyenne

Student [S] : Shana

Student [F] : Tom

Student [B] : Britney

Student [L] : Asher

Britney seems to like me a lot. She says she's seen me at Rob Mahto's Bible study. Thing is, she hasn't attended the Bible study since I've met her at the high school. Cheyenne smiled at me as I was speaking in front of class today -- so i may have found myself another ally yet!

Score!

Brenda Story, my supervisor, talked for the first half of the class, just briefing them about this PACER program that they had been selected to participate in. These kids will get paid! What an incentive! So will I, alongside the credit hours I will be earning through this God-given internship.

After the class hour, I did some perspective drawings for Bonnie Higgin's class (Exhibit Design) while waiting for Ally Gunstrom (my ride) to come get me at the high school.