And now for something completely different...

Today was my first day of teaching. I've got two sections of Public Speaking this semester - my favorite subject! Now, I have plenty of experience speaking in public, but I have never formally taught before. I certainly have never been in charge of anyone's college grades before. It's going to be an adventure.

Class #2 was far better than class #1, probably because I'd already had a test run. It went very smoothly and I sounded like I knew what I was talking about. At the end of the class, one of my students came up to me and asked, "When you were in college, did you take any education classes?" "No." "Wow," he responded. "You sure can't tell!"

This guy is officially my new favorite student. :) Whether he was trying to earn a few brownie points early on, I don't know. What I do know is that I needed a bit of a confidence boost - someone to tell me I am capable of doing this - and this freshman boy gave me those words of encouragement.

Thursday will present an entirely new challenge. It won't be syllabus day anymore. The classes will have done a reading assignment, and I have to figure out what I'm going to do with them for 75 minutes based on that reading. Yikes!