Last week was busy. I managed to get through the week without imploding. I find I am getting more and more comfortable in front of the class, and I am learning with each class I teach. I am not sure that I have been entirely successful in what I want to have the students take from each class, but I am learning what does not work, at least for this class. I am also getting a feel for the class dynamics, and how to work with what the students are comfortable with. Interestingly enough, I am half way through the section I am too teach. And I find I am doing different things than some of the others who are doing the TA thing.
I am enjoying spring here in Raleigh though it has just begun. In the last three or four days their have been some rapid changes. More and more trees are turning green, more plants are flowering, and the weather has felt like spring. The high for today should be in the low seventies, and that makes me look forward to the warmth of summer.
It just occurred to me that in one week I will have been in NC for eleven months. It has been a full 11. I find that what I am starting to associate with the image of NC in my mind are the long leaved pines. Green is NC, though the flowers are quite amazing as well.
