When did I become an Ag Teacher?

It's a strange feeling knowing that I am no longer a college student, instead of being worried about the assignments and textbooks I'm worried about what will I teach, how my classroom should be arranged,
and  what will my students learn.

 It's funny looking back at that quite country girl that started at Penn State four short years ago. When did I become so opinionated, open minded, and passionate about the profession. It was somewhere between badminton class, Korea, Foster moments, late nights and student teaching. Somewhere around figuring out where I wanted to start in the profession and not being afraid to move away from home.

People keep asking me why New Jersey, why would you ever wanna go there? I simply tell them it was the place for me. It's a feeing that I get when I drive through town or walk into the high school, a sense of belonging. It was the job that was going to hurt like hell if it wasn't mine, and for now thats enough for me to be here.

There are so many things to be terrified about in this upcoming year, but weather I belong in this profession or if I made the right choice for the start of my career is not one of them.

I hope when I look back at this in a year or five that I will still be bursting with passion, new ideas, and that star gazed new teacher look. I may never change the world or the profession but for now I plant to continue to believe I can.

Now I'm not naive, I know this first year will be hard, something to be terrified of actually, but its only 180 days. 180 days for me to give it my all and see what I'm made of and I know I'm not going against it alone.

As I like to say this year will be the beginning to the next 30 years of my life, lets see where it takes me.


Till next time...