It's incredible the feeling that comes when you're finally where you're supposed to be.

I started my final placement last week. I'm in a 7th grade social studies class and I'm in love. I've wondered over the last year or so about whether I'd taken the right path. About whether teaching was really for me, since I was so tired of school myself. About whether I should have gone to law or med school instead. (I still think I'd make a kick ass pediatrician.) Yet, when I'm with those kids, all that doubt fades away. Yes there are behaviour issues, yes there are kids who challenge you and make you want to scream sometimes, but teaching a lesson on latitude and longitude and actually teaching them something. Having small minds leave my classroom with more knowledge and a desire to know more. Hearing the chorus of "Hi Mrs. L..." as I walk down the hall. It's amazing. I'm in love.