84: Father-Daughter Time
84 page Word document to apply to ONE school......
"Suggested page length in Part 1 is 100 pages" of writing.
Yipee.
Though, one particular school flyer had a wonderful quotation that leaves me inspired:
"It takes a village to raise a child."
*Update 4:30 pm: My dad provided a smart suggestion, and I was glad I told him about the ridiculously long application. He said I should mail out a resume and CV to the school, see their reply, and if they don't even have openings or reject me, then I can consider working on the long application.
That way I avoid unnecessary work. Honestly, I was about to just not apply there at all. There are so many other schools.
But I'm glad that my dad came today. He took off a half day just to do CV and resumes with me, which really was just me printing the ones I did out and giving to him to mail out (which I easily would have done on my own).
With him though, I do learn little things and enjoy our quality time together. We ate at our favorite Mediterranean place on campus, where he told me try the green pepper I avoided because it looked like a hot pepper. Turns out it's not hot at all, just has a twang of spice. A twang of YUMMY :). It's so like my father to carve out all the seeds of the pepper so diligently, then hand it to me to enjoy. He even walked to the car to feed the meter twice because he saw I wanted to give my best answers to the one online application. In high school, he used to bring me to the mall when I wanted some silly new thing at Express and wait for me in the car while I shopped so he could save driving back to get me again. Sometimes he did this even when I insisted that I could get a ride from a friend or whatever. He was always patient, never complained about me taking long even though he probably had better things to do.
So, as mad as I was at my mom for pressuring my dad to take a half day off work for no reason and "work" with me on job apps, I'm glad that he came. As my friend Y reminded me, "Maybe your parents just love you so much that they want to do all or everything for you, even when you don't need them to." Sometimes you just need to hear it from someone else. I guess I am pretty lucky.
Anyways, I am off to write a teaching philosophy paper, then the rest of my HW. Only in my grad program would they ask us to write a philosophy paper like three times. I had the teacher I have now for Intro to Ed, so she literally told us we can hand in the same teaching philosophy we did with her back then, just tweak it. Seems so silly.
But kinda nice. Three years later, to see how different my views are now. And yet still so much the same. It's like I've stayed the same but have a wider scope and name for the ideas I had before, back when I wasn't even in the teaching program yet! Craaaazy.