Spare Moment

I haven't had very many of these since moving back into school. Go to school, go to internship, go to school again, work, work from my room, do my homework...and of course eat and sleep somewhere in between there. It's funny how quickly my body adjusted to going from 9-10 hours of sleep a night to 6-7 hours. But I still don't feel like this is anything I can't handle. I still feel like I'm sitting on top of the world.

I just had this moment today, walking around the tables during kindergarten Center Rotation, helping the kids and having them come to me with their questions and problems, and I realized with a new perspective that I'm TWENTY years old, almost twenty-one. I'm not a child, I'm an adult. All 27 of those little lives look to me for direction and aid and they don't differentiate between a college student and an adult; I am an adult.

My master teacher has been giving me more and more independence with the kindergarteners and relying on me more to do things of actual value with them, instead of just supervising. I'm absolutely loving every minute of it. Recently I've been helping the kids who struggle with writing their name, and it's so fantastic to see their eyes light up when you tell them how awesome they are doing, or how much they are improving. They are so precious and innocent and I wouldn't want to spend those two hours of my Tuesdays and Thursdays in any other way. I'm so certain that this is what I was meant to do in my future; I don't think I've ever been so sure of anything.