Live the Dream

This is it. I am finally here. The wait is over.

I start student teaching tomorrow.

This is the dream. All those days when I was sick I would dream of this day. The day when I would finally get to finish school and start my dream.

I start student teaching tomorrow.

I stand on the edge of a precipice. I can't see what tomorrow brings. I have a vaguely fuzzy idea about what I am supposed to be doing and what I need to be learning. I mean I have been preparing for four long years for this moment. So I don't mean to say I have no clue what it means to teach or how I am supposed to teach. That I have down.

I think.

My, I do not sound confident. You would think after four years I would be more sure about this. But as my beautiful roommate and fellow student teacher says, "It's like drinking out of a firehose." It will be like starting college all over again with all the information being thrown at me.

For all that, I am still beyond excited.  I. GET. TO. LIVE. MY. DREAM.

My dream people.

My new normal means that I do get to at last get to live my dream. Even if it wasn't in the way I thought I would get here.

-Rachael