My first post of the semester regrettably comes as the first post in roughly one year as well. I am notorious for placing ambitious goals for myself and following through with a pitiful consistency rate. One of my goals in the past year was to foster a blog containing the experiences leading up to my final year at Drake, and I was apparently over my head in my own motivation levels.
In a new year and new chapter of my life, I look forward to experiences that would be underappreciated if not written about and shared. My next few months will be spent as a student teacher at Woodside Middle School in Saydel, Iowa - about 15 minutes Northeast of Des Moines. I will be in a 7th grade classroom teaching Language Arts with a wonderful mentor teacher guiding me along the way. Tomorrow marks my first day of meeting my students and the first day of physically embracing the importance of English and the language arts.
Along with the obivious daily transitions I will begin making in my routines, I will continue to prioritize the importance that running has in my life. The sport grounds me, enlightens me and continues to impress me with its rewards. It has given me a constant in my life, a platform for adventure and a reason to let go for a short period of the day - qualities no other aspect of life has yet to combine for me. Running helps me sharpen my perspectives on life and has me constantly bartering with the limitiations of the human body - and consequently the mind. I have learned through running that no matter where you live, what your shape or who you are, the roads are always open. Often times, very unforgiving as well. However, one will learn through the sport that you always feel better after running than you did before - 100 percent of the time.
My abstract juxtaposition of teaching English and Running intrigues me, and I haven't the slightest clue of what's ahead - life's specialty.
Happy Trails
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