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As the week moves on we seem to be dealing with more and more kids getting sick. It is quite ridiculous to see how many students have an upset stomach throughout the day. We had one student who was gone yesterday, who should have stayed home again today, as it was quite clear she still wasn’t feeling very good. Students seem to be dropping like flies, and it really does make me a little nervous (I was invisible to H1N1 earlier, before school started, and even shortly after, but now I’m getting scared)! I’m really just hoping that I don’t get it, because the last thing I need is to get sick and not be able to come to school for a week. I would probably go nuts!

I had time with my university supervisor today. It is interesting to see the way that I have progressed. I was impressed with how I’ve been doing and some of the things that I am doing right. Miss M asked me yesterday if I minded her leaving the room as often as she does, and I’m not going to lie, I don’t mind at all. There are times that I might have a question, and wish she were here to answer it, but I always figure it out on my own. She said that if she didn’t trust me in here, and didn’t like what I was doing, she definitely would not leave the room at all, and would be glued to her chair making sure I was saying things correctly, and giving out the right information. Mr. P also had a few comments to add about how I am doing, and I was brave enough to tell him that sometimes I am having a hard time (and especially this week) keeping up with my lesson plans. I know that they should be done before I even teach, and it isn’t that I’m not thinking about my lessons and what to do with them, but I run out of time to work on the actual lesson plans, and just can’t seem to catch up once I’m behind. I’m planning on staying at the school late today (since I don’t have to work after school) and finishing lesson plans for this week, and working on next weeks, as I won’t have time to do next weeks this weekend, because we have a HUGE project going on at our house (insulation in the attic, and wiring of the house) along with my entire family coming up for the weekend.

Hopefully things work out, and excited to get moving ahead tonight!