reading and learning to read

i never thought that i'd spend hours reading a textbook with this title. after all, i'm not going to be an elementary school teacher - i want to teach middle or high school. what the heck does reading and learning to read have to do with a teaching degree in physical education? i only wish i knew. i guess i can't complain that at least half an hour of my three hour literacy class was dedicated to reading two children's books (one was a picture book on immigration, the other was a short novel on poetry). it was the last two and a half hours of that class that was just cruel and unusal punishment. don't get me wrong, i strongly believe in the importance of reading, i just don't want to sit through three hours of chapter review from a textbook i already find incredibly dull. oh me, oh my. i guess i'm just quite the complainer tonite.

let's hope tomorrow goes well. friday is typically the poopy day in the middle years education timetable. last friday i spent the entire two and a half hours of my adolescent psych class (which should be sooo good) doing homework for my other courses. after that i have a one hour break before my three and a half hour class on exceptional children. that class is just a killer. who wants to sit and learn for three and a half hours on a friday evening? yeah, not me (or anyone else in my class for that matter).

if you see another post in the middle of tomorrow, that's just me trying to pass class time on my laptop. who knows, maybe i'll come up with an interesting little story to tell.