Good Music

So I may be months late but of course I do not care what so ever. Today my cousin asked me to put some young jeezy on his ipod (who knows where he got it from) but anyway I finally heard Young Jeezy, My president. So after hearing that song I knew of another song about Barack Obama. I remember the varsity coach trying to tell me that Will.i.am has a song as well. I listened to it and you know what...it really touch me. If you know me I am not a person who really expresses happiness real well. Of course I know how to get madd and pissed off but excitement and happiness are not my strong points. Well anyway, when I heard Will.i.am's song about Obama I just got this feeling of what a great song this is. When I get this feeling I know when a song is really good and touches its audience. That is what Will.i.am's song does to me, it hits home and forces me to experience happiness and excitement, I can probably go as far as saying hope. Anywho I think both songs about President Obama are great and I really hope change does come to America and everywhere else.

Until next time...

Student Teaching

Student teaching has begin. The day and the life of a student physical education teacher. I do not just call myself a student teacher because as a physical educator, we are expected to coach as well. I do not mind coaching at all but what I do mind is having to stay up all day long. If you know me, you know that I have probably stayed up about twenty times since I hit high school. I am the napping queen but they are trying to take my title away. That's messed up I know tell me about it.

Anyway, student teaching is again a long day ending with bringing players home after practice. In the past three days I have watched a student pick his nose and put his finger in his mouth continuously with no shame, a little girl went on herself and she was insistent on holding my hand as we walked to the nurse, and I saw a little boy run fool speed down the court and run right into a metal circular basketball hoop. These kids are crazy (in a good way).

Here's a question. What do you do if a student spits in your face, as a teacher? Let me tell you what happened. There is this little boy who has an unknown disability to me, I decided to try to roll the ball to him on the bleachers. I was attempting to engage him in some kind of physical activity. Basically we were pretty close and he would just throw the ball towards the court whenever I gave him the ball. I overhear the student helpers from the high school say "maybe we should go over there and tell her". I am thinking to myself what am I doing wrong now. They wanted to inform me that this little boy was a spitter and if he gets upset he will spit on me. They explained how accurate he is with landing his spit on people's face. I had to get up after that because I knew I didn't know how I would react to a child spitting in my face. I did not want to have a reflex that is out of my control especially one that I thought of write away. What do you think I would have done to a child spitting in my face? What would you do?

until next time....

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Obviously as we all know, today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today I went to practice, we have a big game tomorrow against one of the better teams in our league. Actually all the teams are good in our league except one, we have one of the most competitive leagues. Anyway, I had to leave practice early today because I had to go to the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at one of our local middle schools. I was very excited to have the opportunity to speak in front of my community at the celebration but then I find out Friday that I will only be speaking for one to two minutes. I'm thinking to myself what kind of crap is this. I was getting ready to get up there and talk about how just like Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, so did I. I was ready to go in...then I was shut down, which made me very upset. How you gonna call me and ask me to speak one to two minutes about your organization on this important occasion. They could have had some 5th grade talk about how they love the organization and all that it has done for them. I will be laying the law down and let them know not to waste my time again. I had to miss the majority of practice to go to the celebration and talk for one to two minutes, but you know I spoke longer. It wasn't the fact that I had to go to the celebration but it was that I had to miss practice for one to two minutes of public speaking. I didn't take public speaking in college to speak for two minutes max. Hey this is how I looked at it last night, this isn't the grammy's or something so I knew that they wouldn't have music to play to get me off stage so I was gonna say what I wanted which was going to be longer than two minutes. I did out of respect make the speech only about five minutes long. Overall I think it was a cool celebration, I wish more people were there, and stuff but the important folks were there.

Practice was okay today, for the most part. I did notice that there were only five players from the freshman team who showed up to practice and they have a game tomorrow. All the varsity players finally showed up with no excuses. They all needed to be there because we have a big game tomorrow and we need them to focus and work on a few things. In our last game we had about 27 turnovers, redic I know. We did come out with the W but it was redic. We also missed too many layups to count, which is very sad on the varsity level because when we play great teams we are going to have to make our layups and free throws.

I have come to the conclusion that I am going to make a small packet called Basketball and Life Etiquette. There are things that our girls are just lacking, such as please and thank you, basic manners. There are somethings that they don't know basketball wise for which is, you need to wear an undershirt that is either white or the color of your jersey. You do not, I repeat, do not wear a pink shirt under a white, blue, and grey jersey, especially when the jersey is white. Anyway I am going to work on this packet and get it to the girls in the whole program by the end of the season, definitely by the end of the year banquet.

Gotta go watch Nip/Tuck then record the inauguration for tomorrow because I am going to miss a good portion of it because I am going to this Barack Obama Celebration at one of the local elementary schools.

1 Day and 10hours until student teaching!

Many practices and many games later

I'm back. I've been observing, learning, and teaching bball at the varsity level for about a month now. I have learned so much in this past month it's rediculous. Any way the team is onthe path to success. We had our first big when last Friday at home and then we won again this past Tuesday away. I was very proud of them and very excited for the head coach who used to be my coach because it is very hard for our team to win at this particular school. The parents are terrible and the refs are always terrible. But we pulled out our second W in he league and tonight we won our third game in a row. Not only are we on a roll but the boys varsity team has finally come together and has won their last three games as well. So on the outside the high school bball program is finally doing well and we are playing well on all levels. We have a big game ahead of us. I think the boys might have more trouble but I confident in the girls that if we come of and play are like webhave in the past three games we are surely to beat our next opponent. Of course we are not perfect. We the girls' team is definitlylacking leadership, commitment and as Coach K (Duke Mens Bball Coach) personal responsibility. It's said there is really only one person on the team who is hurting us as a team because she always has somethig going on. Grant as coaches we are not doing her any favors by allowing her to always have an excuse of why she didn't come to practice before a game, why she didn't go to PE, why she doesn't have her pracice uniform or bball sneakers, why she can't run in practice... and the excuses continue. It makes me made because I know the people on the bench who might not be as talented but more dedicated should receive more playing time. I hope today is the last day for excuses. I hope tomorrow she is on time and ready to play no excuses.

My new motto: NO EXCUSE!