Freewrite: April 1, 2011

Today is Friday! Finally! This week kind of went by slowly, so I'm glad it's over. All of the local scholarships were due yesterday by 3 PM, and I turned mine in around 8 AM, so my stress was gone for all of yesterday, which was nice considering I had our Regional FTA meeting to go to. There were a total of 8 students from WHS that went, and I thought that was a lot, but when we got there, I think the biggest number I heard was 24! And they weren't big schools or school districts like Springfield... however, I don't think all of them were there because they want to be teachers when they grow up. I think they just wanted to miss school. I don't blame them, but if you are going to go somewhere and listen to people speak just so you can miss school, at least be quiet so that other people who actually WANT to be there can hear what's going on. For instance, Dr. Medlin was our keynote speaker. He did a fantastic job, but the whole time he was speaking, there were about four girls in the row behind me who talked the ENTIRE TIME! I really wanted to turn around and ask them if they were the keynote speaker (or just tell them to shut up), but I decided I would be the mature future teacher and just sit there. I wish people would realize that even if it isn't what you want to do, other people may be really interested in it, so they should at least show some respect and allow learning to occur for those who want to be there. And if you are just going to talk, stay at school. Don't waste Dr. Medlin's time by talking while he's speaking for twenty minutes. That's just stupid and immature. Also, when the director of teaching placement opportunites at Missouri State University is speaking about how best to get a teaching job, and one of the things she points out is how you would look to others, and says, for instance if you are paying attention right now instead of talking, and how that would give you a smaller chance of getting one of those few teaching jobs and you are STILL TALKING, ugh. Pay attention and learn something, or go home. I don't want to be your coworker if you can't even pay attention in a meeting. Gosh. WORD COUNT: 410