Eeek!!

So I finally met my second cooperating teacher today!
This is the teacher I will be paired with for when I am at Blaine Senior High student teaching, which will be from March 26 to June 8. 


I was very nervous meeting this guy.
His name is Mr. Bill Davids.
We had been emailing for the past month or so.
And it wasn't a very good start.
First off, he was horrible with emailing.
It would take him a week to respond to an email.
Then, he was very short in his emails.
Like he didn't have time to talk to me.
When I had arranged to meet him the first time, he blew me off to run errands during his prep hour instead of meeting with me. 
The second time I tried to meet with him, again backfired.
I was really starting to get the impression that this guy didn't want me.
That he saw me as a burden: just one more thing on his plate.
Definitely not the feeling you want to get from your cooperating teacher.


Welp, I finally met him in person today.
I was very nervous & curious to see just how much he didn't want anything to do with me.
Well, I was way off.
The guy is {incredibly} nice.
And very excited to have a student teacher.


Bill is an older guy who doesn't like technology.
He tries to use it as little as possible.
Hence the long time-lapse between emailing.
And when he as to use technology, he does the bare minimum.
Hence the short, empty, non-personal emails.
And he's kinda scatter brained & unorganized.
Hence the uncoordinated previous two meeting times.


So all those things aside, he is an incredible nice guy.
He was extremely welcoming to me, very friendly, and funny.
Great guy.
He introduced to me a ton of faculty, gave me a tour of the school, and talked about the school atmosphere, the students, and the curriculum. 
Everyone at the school was so incredibly friendly.
Teachers joked with each other & bantered back & forth.
I already felt one of the team.


I am very excited for the curriculum as well!
I was nervous going into a high school.
I was afraid I would be stuck teaching senior class economics, or civics, or something gross like that. 
But nope.
I get to teach sophomore American History!
Can you say, "Perfect?!"
Perfect.
When I am there teaching, I will be covering from the 1920s/1930s to the present.
Or at least as close to the present as I can get before the end of the year.
I am so incredibly excited!

The school seemed great.
The students seem great.
The staff seems great.
And my class sounds great.
It sounds like it's going to be a wonderful experience!

I am still nervous for the high school level because I just feel that personality-wise I am much better suited for middle school students, but I think it'll be a fun experience anyway.

Now on Monday I get to start my student teaching placement at Skyview Middle School!
I am sooo incredibly excited!
Eeeeek!