It all hit...

me like a big train.  So I was sort of bombarded with the fact that I need to apply for candidacy for student teach in 2010 by February 1st.  It's a 15 page application, an essay, and 2 letters of recommendation.  It will probably take a week or two to do but I am pretty confident I can get it done on time.  I feel like with the Education courses I am taking this semester I really am starting to be prepared for my future as a teacher.  Like when I graduate I will be 22, get a job teaching Spanish hopefully at a private school for kids.  I don't know how I feel about the Chicago public school system but I want to be living in the city by then and the commute from the burbs to the city can be a pain.  But we will see, a job is a job.  Then after I establish myself a little bit back to school for graduate studies then who knows what.  I'm just excited and so happy that I'm finally getting things together and ready for my future.  This is what I have been waiting for, and working toward.  And I'm only going to work harder.  Granted my study abroad application will have to be put off a little bit this month but my job to become a teacher is more important.  I'll get it done though, whether I may have to stay in on a weekend or wake up early on a Sunday morning and don't stop until its done but it will.  My future is too important to me, and getting into the program and being certified will be huge accomplishments and yes the proud feeling that I will get from my family will be great but I think my own proud feeling for myself will be a greater feeling.  Though my education professor was saying today that the percentage of students who actually go to college is very small. So for those of who are going to college, went, or will go back we are an elite bunch and we should be very proud of ourselves.  I feel like this semester I am going to learn a lot.  Not just education wise but I feel like I am going to learn a lot about myself and what type of successful future I am going to want.