August 2010
5 posts
The Teacher
Letters. Check. Math. Check. Reading. Check. Science. Check. History. Check. I feel proficient in all of the content areas, that I am not even teaching right now. But why am I SO exhausted by the current teaching taking place in my class when I haven’t even started any content?
Right now, it’s social-emotional 101 with Miss Sarah. “Wait your turn.” “Let your friend...
Day 1: Success?
I think it went well. I was officially the first experience with school for about half of my students. Pressure much?
On my drive home, I was thinking about how intimidating the first day of school is. For students and teachers alike. I feel like I have now accomplished my first- first day of school as a teacher just as my students have accomplished their first-first day of school as a...
I have seen the Face of Poverty
and he is a three year old boy. Today was one of those days that changes your life. I will look back on today and pinpoint the day Arizona made sense. Why I was here.
The past weekend I hit a low. I hate Arizona. Strip malls, churches and apartment complexes. In between monsoons and the heat, I was lost as to why I up and moved my whole life to this god-forsaken place. After two months of...
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
“When there’s someone, one someone, who makes your days brighter, makes your joys...”
– Anonymous (via thatslove) (via anditslove)
My Tumblr turned 1 today!
Cute! What a year it’s been. Loved sharing it with all of you! :)
May 2010
7 posts
They're playing our song →
And the seasons will change us new,
But you’re the best I’ve known,
and you know me.
I could not give up on you,
if it weren’t true.
Breakups are like funerals
Seriously. And I stand by the belief that you have to take the right time to mourn them. I was asked out last week by a really sweet guy who has apparently always liked me. While I knew I couldn’t date him last week, fresh off the worst week of my life, we still exchanged numbers and I had since ran into him a few times, including a really fun grad night. Yet, today I was still unable to...
April 2010
9 posts
anrysm:
Home (RAC Mix) - Edward Sharpe & the...
Daylight →
Thomas posted this on his Facebook a while back, but I was watching it again and it’s just so dang cool! I want these kids in my class! haha!
March 2010
10 posts
Sometimes it takes being sick
In student teaching, they drill into your head that you are contractually obligated to just never get sick. Now enter about 28 first graders, filled with awesome germs, hugging you legs, high-fiving your hand. I have been consistantly under the weather for the past two months, it just starts to become your general state of being. Throat always a little hoarse, body always a little under rested....
“It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.”
– Jason Mraz (via fuckyeahhlove) (via fuckyeahjasonmraz)
“I don’t believe in real guns just ones that shoot glitter.”
– Lady Gaga (via fuckyeahladygaga) (via carrieoz)
Mustache →
Sketchy bikeness →
Thomas sells his bike wheels and I hit him. The usual.
February 2010
12 posts
My VLOG debut! WATCH WATCH WATCH! →
Thomas let Alexander and I cut his hair, which is stupid but hilarious! (about 3 mins in) I guess he figured I had a vested interest on how it looks because I like his hair long, but we actually didn’t fuck it up too badly! Plus, it looked 2367264 times better once he washed the curls back in! So Yay! I did the top of his hair, which was not vlogged… so mainly I laugh a lot and call Thomas a...
Hehehe
Why did so many people send me this???
(267): just realized i can abbreviate thomas paine as t pain in poli theory class notes….YES
Yes, I did realize I could call him that fairly early on. Do I want to…. sometimes! Haha!
When timing goes your way...
It is often you feel that the timing is just not right. You blame yourself, the other person, but mainly you blame the situation. This is not one of those times.
It is truly glorious when you let someone or something go. Let it die in the past. When you finally do, you wonder why you had waited so long. We blind ourselves from the amazing people around us, when we hold onto the past and the...
Party Cat aka my cat →
in the future.
Wake up to the WTF of it all and enjoy the ride →
Oh perspective. Thank you Jason.
“See, when you forgive your imperfections,
And you’ve auctioned all your...”
– Brett Dennen
January 2010
4 posts
I will teach you, America!
I will officially be a 2010 Teach for America corps member in Phoenix for the next two years. I decided to accept it earlier today. Yay, job security!
One small step towards an equal education in America, one HUGE step for Sarah Khatib. I am pretty excited! Here comes the SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Logistics of the Rebound
So, I have been told by many of my friends that I desperately needed to rebound. However, I had never done that before, which is probably why I found myself back in my first relationship, most recently. And while I agree that it is healthy step, the logistics can be tricky.
I know that I don’t want to mess up anything with one of my guy friends because that is just well, messy. I have...