Let the games begin!

So classes officially started on Monday and are now to a full swing with homework and a project being due in addition to taking a quiz in the glorious class of, that's right you guessed it, Calculus 3. Needless to say i have an interesting semester ahead of me between calc 3, education classes, biology, etc. Along with the beginning of a new semester comes questions such as what is biology? what is life? what is the meaning of life? why do you want to teach? what is (fill your topic of choice in here)? But my all time favorite question is the dreaded "what do you hope to get from this class?" Almost every teacher asks this and most add the comment "other than getting the 3 or 4 hour credit." (Now as a side note here this in my opinion is one of those questions where you're setting students and yourself up to fail because 9 out of 10 times they are in there because they have to be, but they simply say to learn more about whatever subject it is. But the truth is they have never thought of what they wanted to gain from the class until you asked it.) So as i am sitting in my health class contemplating my answer and i honestly think. . . nothing. I expect nothing out of this class. I have never had expectations for classes or hopes to gain one thing in particular because you see i like to just go along for the ride and look at the outcome in the end. And might i just add i have yet to not learn something from a class or be disappointed about one. But anyway tomorrow will now be the second day for the tuesday/thursday classes so hopefully most of those questions are done  and the madness can begin filled with chapters, tests, projects, observation hours, and portfolios. Oh the joys of being a student. It truly is amazing though how much knowledge is at our fingertips and what you can do with it. I often wonder while in classes who invented this? or how did they decide this is how it would be done? or who made it that way? Seriously though if you think about it who first learned and decided how surgery would be done for different ailments and how did they learn it? Who decided what the words in english would be? Or how did we know how to make sounds and associate them with letters and how to say them? Who made not having a comma in a list improper? So as you can see i work myself into a web of why? how? who? wow that's so interesting to me's and get lost in my thoughts. Needless to say i love school and learning. Hence why i want to become a teacher. But in this process of becoming a teacher you must take many education classes which prepare you but also ask you questions to make you plan and think ahead. Questions like. . . What setting do you want to teach in? What subject? Is teaching a good fit for you? What is your goal? Will you join a union? And on and on the list goes. These questions along with many others are to help you in looking ahead as a future teacher but i think sometimes since we are always looking ahead at a desired goal and how to prepare for it we miss some important things right now. We miss the opportunities that God gives us to see Him, spend time with Him, share Him with others, and many other things. Too often we are looking for the next step, the next goal because as a society we are taught goals and problem solving. All these are good things but at the same time we don't see the big picture so we need to enjoy where God has us right now and learn what he has for us in this moment because it may impact the next. We get so caught up in planning ahead and trying to control everything but we miss things in the process. One of my favorite quotes is "You don't need to know what tomorrow holds. All you need to know is the one who holds tomorrow." So what is the point in all this jibber jabber? The point is to look for God and what he wants to teach you each day while still doing your everyday routine. I may not know what tomorrow holds but i know the one who does. And i know that He has me exactly where He wants me and is going to teach me so much this semester in the midst of all the craziness and chaos. I just have to look for it. But enough for now on all that considering i need to read a chapter in health, biology, and education and it's already 11:30. Oh well you know nothing ever happens how you plan it. But that's part of the fun. Until next time. . .

So this bird looking out on the railing of my porch

is what caused most of this thought because the bird

is looking out or ahead into the yard. Oh the things 

that make you think. lol