You know, when I decided to go back to school I knew that I would be learning a lot. That is kind of the whole purpose for school. Right? What I didn't count on were the life lessons I am learning. Which is kind of funny, since one of the biggest reasons I chose to home school my own kids is because I feel that they have a better chance of learning real life lessons.
So, by now I am sure that you are wondering what lessons I have learned recently. The suspense is killing you isn't it? I just know that it is. OK. I will be nice and tell you. It is actually kind of silly this mistake I made, but I bed I don't do it again!
READ YOUR COURSE INSTRUCTIONS! All of them. All the definitions, the syllabus, the documents, everything! Read them well!
Learn from my pain and frustration. Last night at 9:30 PM I sat down at my computer to try to crank out my third blog article. I was exhausted. I had about three hours of sleep because my son had had oral surgery that morning and we had to get to the hospital early, then I was unable to nap because Federal Express delivered a box full of cheerleader uniforms that I had to separate, then a football game. Two very large Pepsis is the only reason I was still upright. So I was not looking forward to doing anything other than sleeping. But, I was determined to meet my deadline and get that third article done. I am so blessed that I read another person's blog question first and saw that we didn't have any articles due this week. Now it made sense why the two that I did write had no comments on them. It also made sense why very few other classmates had any articles written. Needless to say I went to bed very much relieved, stupid, but relieved.
Sometimes God gives us surprise gifts. This morning I logged on to see if there were any new posts and there I saw my gift. I found out that I am already two article ahead for next week. Even though I made a mistake, the two article I had written will count towards next week's work. What a nice surprise.
God bless you and yours
Deb
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I wish more of my students in my six years of teaching had had this epiphany. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteBy the way--the way you wrote this had me laughing out loud. My husband, too.