It be-eth November! This month puts me in a V for Vendetta watching mood; don't you just love that movie? I do! "Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gun powder treason and plot..." I will be watching it in the next day or two for sure. Thought I'd write about a couple of upcoming events that make my future as a teacher seem very real indeed. The first takes place on November 12th: the dreaded Praxis II test. Dreaded by me, anyway. This is the content area test, English, for me, and although I feel I know my content pretty well, I absolutely FEAR tests. Therefore, I am taking it at 7:30am at BYU on a Saturday because I need to get it over with ASAP. Commence the studying. The other event is Student Teaching Orientation which takes place in a little under a month, on December 1st. On that day, or afternoon, I will find out where I'll be teaching and with whom. I'll also be meeting with my faculty supervisors from the School of Education and English departments. All the new student teachers will meet together and then we'll separate into our disciplines; it's pretty cool to think of us all going out to teach at the same time. I can hardly believe that the final stage of earning my teaching certificate is nearly upon me. It will be 2 years in January since I started the whole process; I have been taking 6 credits a semester, except this semester I took 7, and next will be full time with 12 credits. Isn't it weird that you have to pay to student teach? It will be about 2500 dollars for the 2 classes (student teaching and classroom management 2). Thank goodness for my job and the tuition waiver I can earn each semester which will pay for half of those credits in the spring! What a blessing; otherwise, I don't know how we'd afford for me to finish. I am so lucky and blessed. And grateful! It feels good to blog again, and I am working on another post where I tell the story of seeing Corinne at the temple this week. It was pretty freaking awesome, if I can say that about seeing my missionary. The Lord has blessed me greatly in my life. I can't thank him enough.