In the REAL WORLD now!

So, life since graduation has been great, but it has also given me a little taste of the world of adults. After working at the Buckle for five years, it has been a while since I have been interviewed for a job, especially a REAL job. I did my student teaching at Madison High School, and one of the teachers in the English department, Diane Madsen, is retiring after this year. The school held interviews for the positions and narrowed the applicants down to a top 5. Lucky for me, they liked me enough in my interview to include me in that 5. Unlucky for me, they wanted the 5 applicants to teach a lesson in front of the Principal and any teachers in the department that want to come. The past days have been filled with the stress of putting together a 20 minute lesson that would be interesting, interactive, and instructive (now that is a parallel sentence, right?) Now, a 30 or 60 minutes lesson would have been a little more ideal, but I made the 20 minutes work. I got to teach my lesson in Ryan Snelgrove's CREATIVE WRITING class, which was so fun!!! For part of my lesson, I morphed the face of the Principal, Mr. Hampton, into the face of my dad. Here is the before and after.

Before

After

I really think that Josh and I did a great job manipulating the photo a little bit! I really see Dennis Sucher when I look at this picture! I do think that I'm channeling a little bit of my uncle, Mike. However, my dad and Mike are practially twins anyway, right? My lesson went really well, and I couldn't be more happy with myself. If I don't get the job, I'm happy to know that I did my best, and that it is just not meant to be. It was a great day!